Media Diary Entry - Blind faith & frustration
I don’t know what it is about technology that makes me assume it should flawlessly work. And when it doesn’t, I waste entirely way too much time trying to make it work.
My husband and I have been dealing with technology problems of late. It started with his 7-year old PC box just dying - you know, when you hit that button and the windows logo should appear, but all you get is a black screen with a message that says, “Windows cannot read from the drive” - that sucks.
What sucked even more was my panic at realizing that we were using his machine as a backup for all our digital images. Images that went back to 2000. Fortunately, I had the good sense to have additional CD backups, and then I remembered the external hard drive we were using for my backups, and I thought - we’re covered.
I spent that evening trying to locate images from the external drive. A big sigh of relief, until several days later when I tried to access the images that I restored. Many of the images were giving me messages that said, “Drawing failed” or “Image is corrupt”. BIG SCREAM!
Of particular sentimental value were the pictures from our trip to New Mexico (*sigh* I still miss New Mexico *sigh*). Though I uploaded the best photos onto my Flickr account, they were not high resolution files.
This particular incident is just but one account of my recent frustrations. I believe I may have already written about others.
The big question I need to ask myself, however, is why do I continue to trust that technology will always work, and why oh why do I get so violently upset when it doesn’t???
Man, I need to lighten up!
