I don't trust the cloud and I don't trust myself. I don't understand people who walk around with their life in their handbag. "Oh at least I know where everything is" - until it's gone. I'm untidy, but I have a fair idea where things are. And they are certainly not all in one place! This is deliberate disorganisation - my security strategy. Although I internet bank and do a bit of online shopping, I still get paper statements and print off important documents in case the 'cloud' disappears in a puff of smoke'. I would never keep all of my ID in the same place. I heard an advert on the radio today selling something that allowed yo,u and anyone else with the knowhow, to spy on your house while you're out. Sounds like the screen in 1984 to me.
Have a very techy friend from IT days whose whole life was in her Blackberry until that was lost about 15 years ago. No backup system. She reverted to a diary with an address book tho I believe she also has a smart phone now. I still have an address book and a calendar and my own memory.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I was thinking more of remembering activities and appointments. OH puts his in his phone which then bleeps and send messages. Would drive me round the bend.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I know I'm tired having just spent the last 3 days building my new PC, but is it only me who gets fed up when new users come on and expect us to wave a magic wand over their garden, allotment, bit of builders dumping ground, new border etc without them ever having to pick up a book, or decide what they would like, or even do any preparatory work, or even having to bother to find out the basics themselves??????
Yes, I am tired and more grumpy than usual (my photo organizer on my new pc refused to find my 20,000+ photos I had loaded!!). It has taken me hours, and hours, to whip it into shape...…….…………
Tomorrow is another day - off for some ice-cream now and to bed with a good book.
There is a saying 'if you can't find a good book, take someone to bed who has read a good book'. I have a good book!
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
That was my first thought but I remember telling someone I had "30 days of music" on my iPod and he said " you'll never listen to them all", so I put it on shuffle and started with track 1 and went all the way through to track 13 thousand and something. My motto is " It's better to have it ,and not need it: than to need it and not have it"
I was really disappointed yesterday evening. As it was warm and sunny we went down the local pub for a quick drink before dinner and sat watching the world go by. A woman was walking along the road with her head down, texting. She was walking straight towards the pole of a bus stop sign and was literally only inches away before she noticed it. I can only assume she spotted the shadow of the pole on the ground - shame!
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I'm untidy, but I have a fair idea where things are. And they are certainly not all in one place! This is deliberate disorganisation - my security strategy.
Although I internet bank and do a bit of online shopping, I still get paper statements and print off important documents in case the 'cloud' disappears in a puff of smoke'.
I would never keep all of my ID in the same place.
I heard an advert on the radio today selling something that allowed yo,u and anyone else with the knowhow, to spy on your house while you're out. Sounds like the screen in 1984 to me.
Yes, I am tired and more grumpy than usual (my photo organizer on my new pc refused to find my 20,000+ photos I had loaded!!). It has taken me hours, and hours, to whip it into shape...…….…………
Tomorrow is another day - off for some ice-cream now and to bed with a good book.
There is a saying 'if you can't find a good book, take someone to bed who has read a good book'. I have a good book!
My motto is " It's better to have it ,and not need it: than to need it and not have it"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADOPimz3d6w