Seriously, though, I can’t remember the last time my Mac really crashed or froze. I recommend you watch the series of Mac ads at: http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/ ~ they’ll both make you smile and give you a dozen reasons for getting one of the powerful, magnificent and stunningly beautiful new Macs!

Weirdly the only time I’ve had perfect wireless success was in a hotel lobby in India!

Might not work, but perhaps worth a try.

I have to run a program to launch Wireless Zero Configure something-or-other (set up by computer programmer brother who is a geek but possibly not a nerd).

That then tells my PC that there is this very interesting thing called the internet ‘out there in space somewhere’. I then have to tell the computer to look for my wireless router and when they have made friends with each other (possibly over a light lunch or white wine spritzer) I then have to tell the computer that it would be rather good if they continued to talk to each other whilst I got my emails and or surfed the internet for a bit….rather than do some real work.

My PC is very stupid because after having a little sleep each night, when it wakes up again, it has totally forgotten about its new best friend, the internet

and so the tedious process starts again…

When you have eliminated the wireless then you can shout at BT with more confidence and stop them saying it’s not their fault.

Great post Dave…we feel your pain but are somewhat relieved that our days are marginally better than yours….

Although it will sound like schadenfreude (sp?), this is the funniest post I have read in my feeds today. I hope your week gets better from here on in.

Buzz – occasionally challenged in a similar fashion by Telecom NZ

1. Visualise the worst possible outcome for your task
2. Perform the task to the best of your ability
3. Note the difference between (1) and (2)
4. Bask in the glory (c.f. old newspaper headline: Britain Sizzles in the Seventies)

It takes practice to see the worst possibilities, but a shortcut is thankfully available. As a self-confessed rotaholic, you can surely sign up for your church’s Health & Safety Committee (not got one? raise that as an issue at the PCC). You will be sent on a course that will make you alive to the danger, for instance, of an incorrectly located No Smoking sign distracting people from their walk from door to pew, leading to anything from a mild stumble to a domino effect resulting in the demolition of said pews without the necessary faculty.

Apply these principles in general life in the theoretical way I suggest and you are en route to pleasurable sensations of mild success. (Apply them more practically to daily life and you are likely to find yourself shunned, leading to painful sensations of mild failure.)

Good luck. And keep us posted.