Blogitis

A man with three years of experience blogging came in to R.D. Lawrence Place today. It's taken us seven months to work out a meeting where he could teach me something about this 21st Century craziness. And I was feeling quite proud of myself, daring to boldly stick my toes into the as yet still new frontier of cyberspace. No aliens came after my little piggies but our rocketship to reach this new frontier sputtered, barely made it to orbit, and promptly plummeted back to earth in a crash, leaving us staggering about and cursing. No fatalities and alas the rocketship, the internet connection, was restored as soon as my teacher was long gone from the vicinty. Hmmm.

This isn't entirely surprising considering I got a message once at university that had a bomb symbol attached and announced I'd crashed the university's main server. And then my computer went down along with the rest of the lab, although, no one else had got that message. I was in the middle of a production day at the Haliburton Echo once and my Mac computer suddenly frowned at me - literally, this little frowny face appeared on the screen. Staff came upstairs and said, uh-oh unhappy Mac, and that was the end of that computer. Servers where smoke was coming out of the machines, monitors that looked like they'd been fired upon with paintball machine guns from the inside, memory sticks that inexplicably stick their tongues out at me and refuse to work, wipe-outs of epic proportions, such is my legacy with technology. I suppose everyone has their horror stories. I completely baffled half a dozen experts who tried to install an internet connection last year to this building, each leaving more mystified than the last as all their attempts were largely stymied by gremlins for about three months before service became reliable. So it is with well earned trepidation I continue this experiment.

I learned one interesting thing today, if you use this service you can use google analytics (found by typing that phrase into google search box) to track statistics about who, from where, is looking at your blog - so any of you bloggers not hooked into that may find looking into analytics interesting.

Just saw a message below this screen flash and say that I was no longer connected and may not be able to save this post. Oh wait, now it's gone. So here goes, another stab at reaching the great beyond and declaring I shall defeat blogitis! Stay tuned for valiant swimming against the cosmic tides of don't-even-think-about-it.