Friday, April 11, 2008

My technical dilemma

A BIG hiiiiiii to all,

What drove me to make a blog is my passion to make more good things happen. At times, I wonder how the technology is shaping up and carving out a significant niche in our lives. Yesterday, my son Charles asked me if I can increase his pocket money as he wants to buy himself a palmtop so that he doesn’t have to look out for his teachers when he needs to quench his curiosity about different topics.

And, I simply laughed explaining him that he is too small to have a palmtop. Although I took it as a joke but my husband's quick reaction to this came something like this ....he asked, “I wonder when we feel like going lunatic while handling our PC errors, then how 6 years old Charles is going to keep errors at bay from his palmtop”. Hahahaha… Well! He said something very true in the most sarcastic way. At times, I feel so helpless before my computer that nothing seems to help at that point. Once I called a technician at home from a nearby computer repair showroom. I didn’t understand a word of the technical jargon he was using but I got ready to pay him $35 for fixing what he called THE VIRUS ATTACK!

But I really felt cheated when Anna, my next door neighbor told me that I could have got my computer repaired for much much lesser amount instead of paying a hefty amount for such a niggling issue. Actually, I just wanted to have my PC in best of health as my husband requires it for his emails and business.

Now, I’m too wondering how Charles will handle his palmtop errors?

2 comments:

Jenny said...

U r rite, Sometimes I too Wonder what my kids gonna do with my workstation.
They are not dat young but still they download games online ,but they dnt know they r also downloading some viruses along with it too!
If u got the Cheap and best solution to the same dan do let me Know

Anonymous said...

This is the new generation where kids are more smart and handling a palmtop is as easy as managing your mobile phone. So Margaret, you need not worry at all! Nevertheless, you will encounter the virus attacks every now and then but good support service and robust application in your system would help combat such problems.