I'm a self-confessed technophile. I love technology: most of the time. Sometimes, of course, technology and I have a falling out. We almost always kiss and make up though. Which is what happened last week. Ever since I arrived back in New Zealand my iPhone had refused to connect to the internet via the mobile 3G network. I have had to use a wifi connection. I only noticed the problem when I went to Dannevirke and had to use the mobile network because most places I've been before then have had wifi. Various phone calls and visits to NZ Telecom produced no results nor did a trawl of the internet. Then one day when I had an hour or so 'spare' I decided to take the bull by the horns and sort the problem. I suddenly remembered that I had a 'special' number for NZ Telecom that I'd been given once before when I had a difficult problem. It was in my contacts under NZ Telecom and labelled "Complex Problems". I rang the number. Immediate reply: no waiting in queues nor long multi-option menus to go through. I explained the problem and was given an instant solution. A young lady made an old man very happy. I'm so easily pleased these days.
On a completely different matter why is it that drug companies supply tablets in packaging that is so difficult to open? One of my tablets comes in a comparatively easy to open blister pack (as opening blister packs goes that is). The latest packaging I have been supplied with it in is almost impossible to open without scissors or a razor-sharp hard set of finger-nails. W H Y ?!?!
Returning to computers and phones and so on I admit to enjoying exploring new aspects of the operating systems of my Apple Macbook and finding and using new apps for my computer and my phone. Having grown up with computers since I bought my first Amstrad PC1512 in 1985 which was the first Amstrad introduced I'm fairly au fait with their operation despite their increasing complexity. It's quite a thought that the first Sputnik that went into space (and many subsequent to that) had less computing power than the average non-smart phone has today. The Amstrad had no memory to speak of and the programme software was loaded from one floppy disk and the programme data was stored on another. Ah those were the days. Long gone thank heaven.
For those who are interested in smart phones but who find the technology daunting New Zealand Telecom does a wonderful set of short videos on it's catchy website Techinasec. It's worth a look.
Returning to computers and phones and so on I admit to enjoying exploring new aspects of the operating systems of my Apple Macbook and finding and using new apps for my computer and my phone. Having grown up with computers since I bought my first Amstrad PC1512 in 1985 which was the first Amstrad introduced I'm fairly au fait with their operation despite their increasing complexity. It's quite a thought that the first Sputnik that went into space (and many subsequent to that) had less computing power than the average non-smart phone has today. The Amstrad had no memory to speak of and the programme software was loaded from one floppy disk and the programme data was stored on another. Ah those were the days. Long gone thank heaven. For those who are interested in smart phones but who find the technology daunting New Zealand Telecom does a wonderful set of short videos on it's catchy website Techinasec. It's worth a look.
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