Friday, August 13, 2021

Computers are getting very frustrating

Technology is getting more and more frustrating and I am starting to get angry as it all seems to be geared to mobile phones and I have just spent a frustrating few minutes trying to get this font for the draft up to a size which I can read.  It is not perfect but not minute and in the final posting I can, hopefully get it up to size.

Yesterday I decided to renew my virus scanner as T/M has been reminding me for weeks that it was due in the middle of next week.  However, it needed my password and when I looked up my list I realised that I had encountered problems before because I had listed the password as B******* and although I could have probably made an educated guess I had not recorded the number at the end so I decided to get a new one.  No problem except that T/M refused to recognise it.  Tried again T/M sent me an email after thinking about it for about ten minutes and it went through so now I am death to viruses for a couple more years.

Today I needed to update a spread sheet as I always do at the beginning of the financial year but found that it had transferred itself from Microsoft to Excel (I know, but the computer thinks that they are different systems) so I painstakingly re-entered all the formulae only to discover that when I saved it that it had reverted to its original format.  I have saved the new template but am not holding my breath that next year it will not have decided to use some other format to confuse me.

However, I managed to marry my medicare number and my MyGov account and was able to download my vaccination records onto my new Smart Phone along with a certificate to show that I am fully vaccinated against Covid-19 even though Western Australia is just about the only place in the world where we are pretty well free from the infection except for returned travellers in quarantine.

The Limerick:-

A restless young lass from Leigh Creek

Went to Yemen and married a sheikh.

She said in a letter,

'My lifestyle is better,

And it's only my turn once a week."