Monthly Archives: September 2009

Installing Love

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This is so nice….

Tech Support: Yes, how can I help you?
Customer: Well, after much consideration, I’ve decided to install Love.  Can you guide me though the process?
Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?
Customer: Well, I’m not very technical, but I think I’m ready. What do I do first?
Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your
Heart?
Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to install Love while they are running?
Tech Support: What programs are running?
Customer: Let’s see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and Resentment running right now.
Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However, you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed.  Can you turn those off?
Customer: I don’t know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?
Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been completely erased.
Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?
Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.
Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, “Error 412 – Program not run on external components.” What should I do?
Tech Support: Don’t worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before you can Love others.
Customer: So, what should I do?
Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations.
Customer: Okay, done.
Tech Support: Now, copy them to the “My Heart” directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming. Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.
Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?
Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually everything gets it at the proper time. So Love is installed and running. One more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.
Customer: Thank you, God.

—author unknown

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the curse of the early adopters

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Ok, so there has been a rather prolonged semi-silence from this blog

There are probably a few reasons for that. However the main one is technology.

I’m very into technology as I’ve declared here before; Particularly Mac tech. So when Snow Leopard – the new operating system- came out I was bound to upgrade before too long. However I certainly wasn’t in the queue this time. In fact almost by instinct I was going to leave it a couple of weeks or even months. I must be getting old; I was quite happy with Leopard and although I’ve never had any major issues with the upgrading process it can be scary and a little tedious.

A friend reimbursed me for a copy of Leopard by giving me a copy of Snow Leopard last weekend when it first came out.

snow leopard

snow leopard

With box in hand I was all set to forge ahead and see what miracles Apple had produced. In hindsight, it was not a good week to be experimenting. As well as my usual workload I was also really keen to print off and post more than sixty hard copy hand designed invitations to a soirée I am holding. I don’t use my printer much so I had an older (but by no means old) HP Desk-jet which I got cheaply from OfficeWorks 18 months back. It was doing ok and after early conniptions about printing colour via WiFi the desk-jet and I had an understanding and 20 invites had been printed and delivered.

The Snow Leopard upgrade did not seem to go quite to plan. It seemed to stop a few times and need to be restarted via a “hard restart”. Yes alarm bells did start ringing but it was too late to go back. So I plunged forward.

The install worked and looked lovely. I do love the speed and the application exposé. I haven’t dug much deeper. However my dear deskjet didn’t work and for once in its life it needed to. I wanted “old fashioned” invites with enough time for equally old fashioned RSVP’s. So after several attempts I googled and discovered that it should in fact work, I tried installing then promptly uninstalling various drivers and unsuccessfully winding the operating system back and forth.

Time Machine backups worked to restore although I ended  up with half backups all over the place owing to my permissions and some bad sectors on my hard drive.

After about 12 hours work over 3 or 4 days the easiest solution was to buy a new printer. I didn’t really feel the desk-jet I had was old but it seems to still not be compatible.

Most tech journalists often advise waiting a month before upgrading to allow the developers to “iron out” bugs. I’m sad to say that perhaps they were right this time.

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