Technology Sucks!

OK, we’ve all been there. My e-mail isn’t working. The C drive what? What’s all this blue on the screen.

Over the past few days I’ve revisited the NECC Webcast page trying to play some of the sessions I didn’t attend, only to learn that I should download Microsoft Windows MediaPlayer (see right). I’d put it off at that point, with no time to explore. Today, I decided to explore. Go deeper. Solve this problem.

I thought I had a latest version, but I went ahead and clicked the WMP icon and re-installed, waiting about five minutes while the installer “searched my hard drive”. I’m not going there.

finally, it installed all five hundred and something files, and I was back up and running. I tried again, with the web site, and got exactly the same windows (above). I really want to see the Prensky presentation, so I decided to click in to submit an issue to the webcast support, and proceeded to type in details about what was happening, the software I’d downloaded and the platform I’m using along with the browsers I had tried it with. Finally, entering my e-mail address and phone number, I clicked submit. No pause, no hesitation, no chunks or grrrrs, it immediately came back with:

OK, I’m not complaining. It happens. I’ve been in technology long enough to know that some cludges, you just can’t get through. I’m just write to say, “I know!” “Sometimes it’s tough, sometimes it’s frustrating, and sometimes you just give up, and………………………………….blog about it!”