Well it's taken a while, but with my daughter's help I've made it....I've got my own blog. I can also just about sign into my computer and get on the internet. Bless my daughter, who is now probably quite exhausted with exasperation because her Mum's a complete incompetent technophobe.
Life was never as complicated this in the days before all this IT whatsitstuff. There was a time when we couldn't launch ourselves into cyberspace, text or send e-mails. I can remember actually using my brains at school. We didn't have computers or calculators, we could actually work out sums in our heads, write and spell (without the aid of spellcheck) and we turned out to be well rounded. We also had a good level of manual dexterity as well because we could hold a pen correctly and a knife and fork, something a lot of youngsters have difficulty with today. Walk into any town centre around lunchtime and watch them all munching on something hidden in a paper bag - I think they call it 'grazing'. I call it unsightly.
Anyway, I can't stand in the way of progress but is there anyone out there who can expalin to me why they cannot standardise everything to do with computers, internet and the like.
When my daughter was trying to talk me through these procedures on the phone - she lives in Norfolk and I'm in the West Country, we appeared to have different tool bars (if that's what those funny little things are that go across the top of the page) and I'm sure she thought I had gone blind because I couldn't see what she was talking about. I spent some time this afternoon looking for something in a book about computers which is specially written for the old wrinklies like me but it wasn't really a lot of help, why doesn't someone write one called 'How to' to include things like : how to copy and paste etc.
I did find the bit about security interesting and useful because my daughter kept asking me if I had my 'firewall' in place and was I properly protected. I should have thought that this would be more like the sort of questions I would have asked her some years ago before she got married. Now I discover that I had probably been having unprotected access to the internet, really daring don't you think. Anyway, I'm protected now.
So here I am and I feel sure that I will be able to find plenty to grumble about.
Well all I can say is thank God, and make sure you put comment moderation on or you will have every nutter on the internet leaving you strange messages. Trust me, there's lots of nutter on the net besides you!!
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