Found more things to rant about. Norton Internet Security crossed me once too often and I just finished uninstalling it. Any programme that stupid and counterintuitive doesn’t deserve space on my computer—luckily it was a 90-day-trail that came with other software so it didn’t cost me money—just loads of annoyance. It’s one thing to have to teach a programme once, but at least it should remember for the next time! When I was finished I had to manually remove the start menu settings and the 84 Registry items it left behind. Sloppy people, Norton. I’m still convinced they’re related to Microsoft. In any case things work much better without the programme. Safety is one thing; being able to use one’s computer quite another.
Guess I missed mentioning the fact that I’m home with the flu. Asthmatics don’t take flu lightly. Nuff said.
It’s so dark out today that at noon having my lights on is mandatory. Now I’ve run out of topics and will close.
Apparently the trials don’t stop there. When I was unable to send this blog by E-mail decided to call Sympatico Bell my ISP to find out if there was some problem with their servers. After 40 frustrating minutes of having an East-Indian Sounding techie walk me through all the steps I’d already covered many times I finally had to ask him—point blank, “Are you absolutely certain there are no problems with your servers?” This especially when browser-based hotmail failed as well. After denying there was any problem he had to pull in his horns and admit that they were just then getting an update and after a further few minutes he had to admit there was a problem with their servers. He apologized for what that was worth after wasting so much of my time. I figured they had a problem with Microsoft’s new security updates last night but Sympatico seems to be slow to catch on. Of course my techie also told me the old unsecured E-mail system was down as well and I’m about to prove him a liar yet again by using it to post this Blog.
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