Another no-show for
teaching gave no excuse not to tackle a couple of techie tasks I had been
putting off for the usual reasons – a certainty that either the kit, the
instructions (just pictures these days) or my IT skill swill fall short of the necessary;
first up was installing a second-hand flat-bed scanner and all went well until
the instructions said connect to the computer via the USB port, but the hole in
the kit was square so not the usual USB shape, and none of the cables that came
with it had a square connector to go in it, so bringing the job to a grinding
halt; undeterred I moved on and unwrapped the new router (ignoring the smart TV
box and mains-based ether-net connectors that came with it unbidden) and
following the instruction picture-book set it up successfully and was soon able
to hook up my tablet and PC to the cyber-sphere – for an hour or so before the
world wide web went walkabout, visible, connected but unresponsive.
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