Au secours, ayuda (for my Hispanic friends), help… I have lost my Internet connection… What, oh what am I going to do?
Digging in my large cache of knowledge I have tried everything I know to reestablish contact with the cybersphere, all but in vain… or almost.
My Ferrari of a computer (yes) is now running on 2 cylinders instead of 12.
I can connect to the Internet, but my Mac is presently running as fast as an asthmatic donkey when it should be speeding like a greyhound.
It is pathetic.
What is a true-blue cybernaut to do?
And the Comcast guy can only come in 4 days… Four days… an eternity…
What am I going to do if I cannot use the services of my cyber Jeeves?
The net is my source of knowledge, my advisor, my Mentor. I can talk to it and it can talk to me. And it never (like somebody I know) gives me any lip.
Without it, I am nothing but a shell of a man.
In the olden days, everybody read the newspaper. Now few people (besides octogenarians) do.
I don’t read newspapers anymore but I can ask my computer to read an article to me and it will oblige.
Being without a computer is like flying blind in a snowstorm.
Once you have tasted the delights of Capua (cyberspace), you cannot quit cold turkey. You will need your daily fix every day or you will climb the walls.
As a matter of fact, I feel the urge to climb the curtains of my bedroom right now.
I might start believing in miracles.
This morning, four days after its death, like Lazarus raising from his grave, my computer came back to life.
Alleluia!
I don’t know what happened but you never argue with success.
My baby is back as attentive and affectionate (unlike my cat) as ever.
Everything is forgiven. No questions asked.
I am back in the driver seat ready to fight windmills.
Praise the Lord (or Steve Jobs) for resurrecting my faithful acolyte.
Alain
Fighting spam
Gmail is working very hard to fight spam.
To help keeping this junk off of the Internet, Gmail bounces back mail that they think is spam.
It is for this reason that I cannot anymore send messages to a large number of people at the same time.
Gmail urged me to create a special group (that I called “My Blog Faithful”) and ask each recipient to accept messages that are coming from me.
If you want to keep receiving new postings from me, you need to accept to be on my mailing list.
When you receive this message, simply click on “Accept” and you will continue receiving my postings.
Thank you for your attention.
Alain
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