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
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-
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-
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
