Format Change III
That was short-lived, even for Turn of the Millennium Appy Days. A Microsoft App pirated my machine and I have been doing battle with ? ? ? The Cloud? ? ? Appy Kids? ? ? The Devil? ? ? Who/whatever it is I am doing battle with, I cannae any longer gain access to my offline therapy journal without paying homage to The Cloud. A new Microsoft account required to use my most valuable therapy tool. Oh, the joys of tech connectivity. . . I have an almost 40 firstborn child to offer as tithing, Great Cloud. Please take him instead of forcing me to worship at your nebulous altar.
I have one of the still available spiral bound notebooks I used in front of the old world, Pre Cloud (PC?) computers until I started keeping my journal in Blog Format. I didnae note the transition on any calendar of my own devising, but I believe The Cloud is a recent marketing frenzy. I am fairly certain the first of my blogs were PC.
The mop up of the disasters which accompanied the christening of the extraction room continues. Not a good time to be assimilating marketing takeovers of my therapy tools.
Sigh. . . Tech processing instead of psych processing. My Appy Days alter ego, Anthony Picasso, has escaped its cage again and is torturing Appy Kids with the remnants of his old world art studio again. . . Here Appy Kid. . . Here Appy Kid. . . Jump straight ahead into *my* web.
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I'm not into this new technology which I guess shows my age. I'm convinced there might be a day when everything shuts down and we will be at the mercy of kids who only know this way of life. If you asked one one of them to manually write a thoughtful letter, they would be upset having to do all that "work". It's sad. I believe the simple act of writing a note has a more thoughtful impact.
It's crazy to me how everything in the IT world changes daily, look at the iPhone. It seems they have a better model coming out weekly and makes us at the mercy of Apple and any and all big media companies. What power they have over us. ....
Ah yes, technology. I have mountains of paper journals which I will never part from. I enjoy writing ‘out here’ but I hold back. Each place serves their purpose I suppose.
Age isnae the most reliable gauge of Tech Savvy I've found in the half century of my own Tech career. There were already mentors approaching retirement when I took my first programming class in 1971. Butttttaaaa. . . Not arguing with ageism this time, either, young 'un.
The good news is that now there is a plethora of apps for that, as evidenced by the latest pirate app on my attempts to escape The Cloud. Assimilation in progress, Master Borgs.
You Can Do The Fix!!!
Your Brain combined with your knowledge and skills
The Cloud Doesn't Have A Chance!!!
Me, I don't even know what the cloud is!
fingers and toes crossed and doing a dance of resolution halla ballo style
"The Cloud" is nothing more than a new and improved marketing slogan, ML. Standard marketing 101, whether you are selling beauty products, rock concerts or political ideals. It is on all your latest pop-ups and spam promotions.
Personally, I like the clouds I can watch from my back under a shade tree.
The Cloud Singular is full of Appy Kids who are not as smart as their phones. I'm updating the Rolling Stones classic, "Get Off of My Cloud" in their honor. In the dreams inspired by the clouds, plural, Mickey and Keithy might even record the update.
A 40 billion dollar aggravation or convenience? The jury is still out........ triple hugs ~
The Cloud has been around for quite a while. With all the hacking, I avoid it for journaling. The youngsters really don't grasp that once on the internet, it is there forever. Prospective employers now check applicants' Facebook. Can make or break a hire. So tired of spams and pop ups. A new world coming with so many unable to hold a conversation. PC's are useful tools, but not a lifestyle for me. Hugs to all.
I'll bet you dollars to wishes that if one dug hard enough, *they* could find my postings on the old BBS (Bulletin Board Service.) Maybe even my point to point circuit flirtations. I don't care to do the research, but if some *they* out there is up for the challenge, I'm good on my bet. When I did those posts in the 70's and 80's, The Cloud was called, among other things, "The Comm Net." Don't let the marketing department fool ya. Same tech, different generation.
Good luck getting someone who is young enough to know everything to even care about such ancient history. I sure didn't when I was playing with my Dick Tracy Watch and taking cars for granted.
Ah the joys of the world of a digital age! Much empathy to one and all.
I’ve have always had a deeply suspicious nature towards the world of online and it’s too convenient storage options. When I first started using a computer to write my books and stories, I put a band on that laptop ever being allowed to access the Internet. When finally technological advances forced me to backup online, I ended up having my worst fears confirmed in the world of “Microsoft” systems. My “Microsoft” “One Note” and “One Drive” “Cloud” account were hacked. This was all due to an error in the “Microsoft Live” login page having a coding error that allowed hackers to reroute the technical support login to a false page that allowed them to take over my “One Drive”. I will never trust “Microsoft” again.
I’ve always been a “Mac” person from the beginning as my ex husband is legally a professional hacker for most online software companies and a computer science major. He gave me a very important education in the safety of “Mac” vs “PC”, although he never denied that when a “Mac” gets hacked it is brutal beyond measure but it is rarer than a “PC” hack.
After the last hack, where I was never able again to secure more than half of my “PC” based accounts, like “One Drive”, I’ve sworn off “Microsoft” systems. Now I only trust my “iPhone” and “iCloud” accounts, and good old fashioned pen and paper. It just took that one “Microsoft” hack to completely infect every account, phone, tablet and computer in my house and cost over $1000 to fix. Never again, for me.
I loved the days of “Microsoft NT” and “XP” when you could control your “PC” and not have everything automatically part of the online world. I knew the ins and out of “NT” and “XP” but after that every computer was instantly loaded with apps and online access that isn’t in my control, or so it seems.
But that’s my issues. I still have many friends who are staunch “PC” internet saavy supporters. For me though it’s one hack too many.
Hugs & love, Arfie. I hope you find a solution to your current format issues.