November 06, 2009 at 03:46 PM
Sometimes using PC based technology can be as frustrating as driving a new car that suddenly stops working. You sit there, knowing that you can do nothing about it and that all you can do is wait for the AA.
When your PC dies, or freezes, or gives you a message you don’t understand…the sinking in the stomach feeling is as bad as when the car fails on you. Have you backed up your photos from the last five years, sitting on the hard drive? How will you check your emails for the critical, coordinating message about the meeting happening tonight? Who is going to help you and what is it going to cost?
Well, two glimmers of hope in the murk. My Dell Netbook has really begun to be a useful tool, giving me access for about 45 minutes a day to the internet as I sit on my Chiltern Railways train to and from Marylebone and
And the Geek Squad, technology agents brilliantly equipped to surf to your online rescue. They stay in role – Agent Smith or Jones gets tasked by Mission Control – and then they very coolly save your online life.
Why do I mention all this? Lat night my 5 year old PC crashed and needed to be reset back to its 2004 factory settings. Reloading everything from the back up file – how the heck do you do that? Geek Squad will come to the rescue and the Netbook allows me to continue to communicate to the outside world. At least that’s the theory; as I tried to open the Book up just now to write this, it froze. That’s like watching the AA van approach you on the hard shoulder of the motorway – and then watching it drive past as it heads to another driver who called them out first.
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