When I first got this computer I was fifty times its age, now, ten years later I am only six times older than it is.
Time flies, huh? With this math soon we will be the same age! It was a junker when I got it, way past middle school, old and slow. It was good in its day but the average cell phone has more memory now, faster, better, more.
It was "top of the line" when I bought it for my daughter when she went away to college and cost a pretty penny, lots of them in fact, about $2,000. Four years ago when she went to Law School she needed a laptop and found one for $750 that was way better, faster, more! Fewer pretty pennies too. This one, the one that I am using wasn't worth anything, not a plug nickle! So it is in my shop, dirty, yes, filthy covered in steel dust.
It can still do more than I can do with it. I have discovered though that the damn thing needs a periodic
cleaning. Every discovery I encounter, every google search, each website I visit places "cookies" in my computer. They know who I am and what I did last summer! They know everything about me, too much it seems. I had 25,000 cookies all at once and they were fighting each other for supreme cookiness (spellcheck says "cockiness" but what does one call the supreme cookie?) They don't share, or they do, I don't know.
But they were fighting and that is what didn't allow me to comment on any blogs!
Barbra Joan, my computer advisor, life skills teacher, guru, Gypsy Friend, solved my problem for me with her expert diagnosis: clean the cache! Like I'm supposed to know what that means! Somehow I did it and all's well that ends well. I am back in business, watch out I will be commenting like a mad man now!
Time flies, huh? With this math soon we will be the same age! It was a junker when I got it, way past middle school, old and slow. It was good in its day but the average cell phone has more memory now, faster, better, more.
It was "top of the line" when I bought it for my daughter when she went away to college and cost a pretty penny, lots of them in fact, about $2,000. Four years ago when she went to Law School she needed a laptop and found one for $750 that was way better, faster, more! Fewer pretty pennies too. This one, the one that I am using wasn't worth anything, not a plug nickle! So it is in my shop, dirty, yes, filthy covered in steel dust.
It can still do more than I can do with it. I have discovered though that the damn thing needs a periodic
cleaning. Every discovery I encounter, every google search, each website I visit places "cookies" in my computer. They know who I am and what I did last summer! They know everything about me, too much it seems. I had 25,000 cookies all at once and they were fighting each other for supreme cookiness (spellcheck says "cockiness" but what does one call the supreme cookie?) They don't share, or they do, I don't know.
But they were fighting and that is what didn't allow me to comment on any blogs!
Barbra Joan, my computer advisor, life skills teacher, guru, Gypsy Friend, solved my problem for me with her expert diagnosis: clean the cache! Like I'm supposed to know what that means! Somehow I did it and all's well that ends well. I am back in business, watch out I will be commenting like a mad man now!
