I have said this before to many of my friends, but it is official: technology hates me.
It hates me so much, and I realise I talk as if technology has a brain or thought, but you know what, sometimes my luck (my lack of luck) in terms of technology actually makes me paranoid in thinking: it must have a consciousness, otherwise, how come out of everyone, everything breaks down on me?
For example: when I first got my laptop, on the first week, it got a program malfunction thing, and I had to go to the IT help people at the computer shop to fix it. And that is not the first time computers decide to not work for me, like when I was at school and we had to borrow laptops for assignments, I always ended up getting the dodgy one that didn't let me log on, or it did but then would freeze and I would lose all of my work. Or the worst of all, was in my end of year maths exam for school, which would go towards my end of year mark and consequently determine which university I was going to, my calculator decided to freeze and I was without a calculator for twenty minutes (in an hour exam) while someone had to go looking for a spare.
I'm sure many of you can relate to some of these experiences too, because I don't think I'm the only one to be this unfortunate when it comes to this sort of thing.
But the thing that has triggered me into writing a post dedicated to my undesirable relationship with these machines, is that:
1) last week, the right side of my headphones stopped working, which is annoying
2) but not as annoying as what just happened then: I buy music off iTunes, and two nights ago, I bought a few songs, so last night I was transferring them onto my iPod. And it was while ejecting my iPod from the laptop, my iPod decided to delete all the songs, all the movies and TV series that I had on it. I tried to connect it again and fix it, but nothing worked. My iPod was merely a shell of it's former self. All the memories that were inside of it (all my playlists) are forgotten. While I stared at it with defeat, it stared at me like I was a stranger. There was no recognition in it at all...
Yes, I have just personified my iPod. But no, I am not mad, I just tend to go really metaphorical and unnecessarily poetic when I am feeling like this. It is such a first world problem, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't upset me. I am extremely upset, and it has started to make me realise how much we rely on technology. Even though I don't get on with it, we both depend on each other: we coexist.
And 3) I went to the IT help people again and they couldn't fix it and what happened to it, only happens in a "one in a thousand" chance. Great...
It hates me so much, and I realise I talk as if technology has a brain or thought, but you know what, sometimes my luck (my lack of luck) in terms of technology actually makes me paranoid in thinking: it must have a consciousness, otherwise, how come out of everyone, everything breaks down on me?
For example: when I first got my laptop, on the first week, it got a program malfunction thing, and I had to go to the IT help people at the computer shop to fix it. And that is not the first time computers decide to not work for me, like when I was at school and we had to borrow laptops for assignments, I always ended up getting the dodgy one that didn't let me log on, or it did but then would freeze and I would lose all of my work. Or the worst of all, was in my end of year maths exam for school, which would go towards my end of year mark and consequently determine which university I was going to, my calculator decided to freeze and I was without a calculator for twenty minutes (in an hour exam) while someone had to go looking for a spare.
I'm sure many of you can relate to some of these experiences too, because I don't think I'm the only one to be this unfortunate when it comes to this sort of thing.
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But the thing that has triggered me into writing a post dedicated to my undesirable relationship with these machines, is that:
1) last week, the right side of my headphones stopped working, which is annoying
2) but not as annoying as what just happened then: I buy music off iTunes, and two nights ago, I bought a few songs, so last night I was transferring them onto my iPod. And it was while ejecting my iPod from the laptop, my iPod decided to delete all the songs, all the movies and TV series that I had on it. I tried to connect it again and fix it, but nothing worked. My iPod was merely a shell of it's former self. All the memories that were inside of it (all my playlists) are forgotten. While I stared at it with defeat, it stared at me like I was a stranger. There was no recognition in it at all...
Yes, I have just personified my iPod. But no, I am not mad, I just tend to go really metaphorical and unnecessarily poetic when I am feeling like this. It is such a first world problem, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't upset me. I am extremely upset, and it has started to make me realise how much we rely on technology. Even though I don't get on with it, we both depend on each other: we coexist.
And 3) I went to the IT help people again and they couldn't fix it and what happened to it, only happens in a "one in a thousand" chance. Great...
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