What a silly computer!

Yesterday afternoon my computer had one of its moods. Everything was working well in the morning but after lunch it decided it didn't want to access any blogs with 'typepad' in the URL. Any other blog, fine, any other web site, fine, but typepad...forget it. Firstly I made sure it wasn't a Typepad problem (it wasn't) and so I tried all my usual fixes but was unsuccessful. I did some washing, went shopping and generally kept myself busy, returning every so often to see if it had recovered, but it was having none of it.

And so in the evening I had to resort to asking my daughter for help. Young people must be sick of us 'oldies' seeking their advice but so many of them seem to have a second sense when it comes to computer problems. She lives some distance from home now but over lengthy phone conversions that lasted most of the evening she talked me through various tweaks, twiddles and virus scans and eventually all came right. I'm convinced computers know just how to annoy us and mine certainly succeeds from time to time. So for my clever daughter, for curing my computer ills yet again, a big.....

Comments

[Jayne]

Computers are like teenagers don't you know - annoying when they are misbehaving, but our best friends when they are!

Glad you got it fixed.

[Twan Potgieter]

I just love your site - would like to keep in touch, have visited your part of the UK - its stunning !
Twan Potgieter
Hilton, KwaZulu Natal,
South Africa

[Karen]

i can completely relate!! lately my charger has been not staying on even when PLUGGED into a working outlet!! very finicky! time for a new one...gah. probably. just the last thing i need.

[carolyn]

What would we do with our computers without our childrens help?