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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers. - Jef Raskin
June 15th, 2007
I woke up Wednesday morning to find my internet connection had flown the coop. Didn’t even leave a note, just took off. I spent about an hour fiddling with hardware and software, but all it got me was the quintessential why-I-hate-computers result: “There was an error connecting to the network.”
An error. What error? Could be a short in the power cord, could be gremlins. It could just not feel like connecting today. We’ll never tell.
This mystery outage was particularly irksome because for the first time in what feels like a dog’s age, I’m inspired to write about something other than my laundry room. And I have some cool pictures to post. I don’t have time for cryptic messages about “errors.”
Thursday morning I tried another tactic: sheer force of will. Coffee in hand, I sat hunched in front of the computer and glared at it. Meditated upon it. Psychically commanded it to do my bidding. It sat smirking silently, filing its nails.
Last night as I lay in bed, the events of the rather stressful day replayed themselves in my mind, crowding out sleep. Somehow amid all that useless yammering, a still, small voice managed to get a word in edgewise. “Unplug it.”
Needless to say, this morning I humbly obeyed and everything was hunky dory in about 35 seconds. I’m taking my still small voice out to lunch in gratitude.
Photo: Bird finds a seat, 06/14/07
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This is exactly why my Dad lives by:
“When in doubt, reboot.”
I’m glad you got it working!