I really think my computer
is getting creepier and creepier and is not only my computer it's all
my technology whether it's my cell phone or my Samsung tablets. This
really could be just me and my tendency to be paranoid but something
seems to be happening and is just getting annoying.
Case in point, earlier
today all of a sudden when I tried to enter data into my computer,
type words into my word processor or data into the search engine all
of a sudden whatever I typed came out in Cyrillic characters!
Russian! How the hell? Granted, I will take some responsibility for
something like this happening because at some point last year I
entered a Cyrillic alphabet keyboard onto my system thinking that I
might try to write a little Russian, it's been quite a while. I
really couldn't get the keyboard to install and I pretty much forgot
about the project. I don't know if it was the summer or maybe early
fall this defaulting to the Cyrillic alphabet keyboard entry
happened. It seemed like forever it took for me to figure out how to
get back to my English keyboard. I may even have had to contact Mark
Anthony to come over and help me find the problem. This afternoon I
spent a couple hours going back and trying to find the right settings
or whatever and finally I found something which I deleted and at
least brought me back to the ability to type English notation when I
needed to. Interesting enough I would be able to dictate English when
the Cyrillic notation was in effect but I just couldn't enter/type
English characters into my writing.
I have really began to use
my digital devices to listen to not only radio broadcast but podcasts
and my stored music. However, in the last couple of months my cell
phone has developed this weird characteristic of either turning
itself off or what seems to be randomly going back and replaying
snatches of a broadcast I might be listening to. I guess this is not
a big deal but it certainly becomes somewhat annoying when trying to
listen to a news report like NPR and every few minutes the machine
will repeat something that you just heard and sometimes in ver
y
frequent cycles. I thought maybe the one Internet radio that I
downloaded had corrupted or something so I deleted the app and
reinstalled the app but soon after the symptoms began to show again.
So I figured what the hack I went to the app store and downloaded
couple more Internet radio players. I thought I'd solve the problem
at first but then one radio would just stop broadcasting right in the
middle of the program, very frustrating. The other Internet radio
seemed very selective on what ever allow me to stream in some cases I
cannot even order up the podcast that I wanted. This is all very
frustrating because I really want to use my equipment way that
supposed to be used.
Maybe I'm just
experiencing my equipment through very jaundiced eyes right now as I
try to fight off some sort of disease process which is trying to
overtake me. Everything seems to be more bleak that probably is. I've
been really trying to take care of myself this winter/flu season but
it looks like father flu may have tapped me on my shoulder I'm going
to fight as long as I can with or without my electronic technology to
keep me company.a
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