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TAILPIECE Gerald

If you have been looking at our website recently, you would have seen the warning about my computer problems which has delayed our web update.

A glitch occurred which wouldn’t allow me to link into Broadband either wirelessly or with a LAN cable and I was completely helpless as to how I could communicate.  Hours on helplines (helpless lines?) made little difference.  Shared-screen sessions and efforts to restore by going back to a previous normal day just didn’t achieve anything.

Finally, the dreaded word of advice was given.  After a cautionary question about whether I had my data backed up, the bombshell came – ‘You’ll need to carry out a recovery programme’ which meant everything would be wiped clean and I would have to start re-loading programmes and data from scratch – ostensibly to the factory fresh computer I started to rent nearly two years ago.  But is it ever as easy as the helplines make out?  The computer I ‘recovered’ bore little resemblance to the one I remember working with two or three weeks ago.  Layouts were subtly different, expected links didn’t appear and worst of all, the e-mail seem to have a life of its own about whether I received peoples e-mails or not.  So I could not guarantee that I saw everything people sent or replied to (So if you haven’t had a reply, try again or even ring!!!)

You can almost write the next bit can’t you – where I bring out a spiritual message from the situation – because it is so obvious.

Our problems about communicating with each other, let alone ‘the world’ – selective messages – glitches in our approach to each other that build up almost unnoticed.  The solution to go back to basics to eliminate these is a good one but I am a technophobe, I didn’t want other voices on a phone telling what bits to click on, I just wanted someone who knew what they were talking about to sit at the computer for me and sort it out and turn round, smile and say, “There you are – all sorted – If you get any more problems, just give a shout.”  And in our ecumenical ministries, we know who that is, don’t we?

May God bless you

Gerald