Cheeky's Hideaway: A Pox on All Your Houses!

Robot_uprising Nothing sends me into more of a drooling, raging blood-lust than when technology revolts.

After spending hours trying to figure out how to load my lovingly crafted birthday homage to my daughter into this blog (finally acknowledging defeat and loading it into YouTube) I discover that the code mysteriously reformatted itself so it looked like poorly assembled Ikea shelving. It would have taken all of 30 seconds to correct the problem except that the Typepad performance management team saw fit to pick yesterday to trip over the plug, thus rendering edits and comments utterly impossible. It gnawed at me all day that I couldn't fix the problem, and that it happened on the one day that it shouldn't have. Bastards! GAH!

It's just another example of how that which is supposed to serve us often makes life harder. Our main computer sits idle in our den, having been rendered virtually inoperable by a combination of wear & tear and merchants of evil. I've defragged, virus-protected, scandisked, cleaned registries, spybotted, and virtually eliminated every stray bit of random data I could find on the thing, yet it still lumbers along like a brontosaur on morphine. In addition, the elevator in our building has taken to trapping people on the seventh floor (thank god we live on the sixth) and don't get me started on what it's like on a crowded subway train when the A/C goes out.

Maybe I can even get Oodgie to share her reaction her recent trip to the Verizon store to upgrade her phone. Can you hear me now?

The good news is that technology can--on occasion--be useful. In fact, starting tomorrow it will be used to syndicate the countdown of CroutonBoy's Top 100 Albums of All-Time. There was a moment last night when I thought Typepad had zapped the countdown posts which I've been working on for a few days. Thankfully for Typepad they survived Y2K6 and are ready for launch. Check back tomorrow for the official kick-off.

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