Moving Into a Computer Twilight Zone
Now I know that this sounds really weird and I really shouldn’t be letting my imagination run away with me but I think my partner - the light of my life - she who brought light and happiness into my life - has some strange ability to communicate with operating systems.
Yes, I knew it! You’ve immediately consigned me to the bin marked ‘Crack Pots, Looney Tunes, and other Demented Nitwits’ - but not so. I am as perfectly insane as any other computer user but my wife does have this strange ability.
Consider the evidence - ever since the introduction of digital watches she has been unable to wear one and have it last longer than three days. Good quality or absolute crap - it doesn’t matter, they all die after about three days.
And now that strange ability to destroy things is beginning to manifest itself in her computers. She has a laptop that works fine but after she has used it for a couple of months it dies. The software corrupts and it has to be formatted and re-loaded.
And then there is her PC. Over the last couple of years, despite changes in motherboards and peripherals it too starts to die. Invariably it’s the USB ports that go first. One at a time they just stop working for no apparent reason. Anything that is plugged into those ports can be moved to my computer and it works fine but if she tries to transfer a file across the network to anything plugged into a USB port on another machine it never reaches it’s destination.
Last week it all started again and one by one her USB ports failed so tomorrow it goes back to the computer shop for another format and reload.
I guess we could live with it but the failures are happening more frequently.
And you thought I was joking - where is the them from the X Files? 