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Are you up with the play. These wretched computer geeks play with words and generally confuse the public.
All this talk of "The Cloud" I think has people thinking of storage cabinets in the sky. It is just the name of another storage computer that will store information for you. Probably in a basement in a back alley in California somewhere. Nothing to do with those white fluffy things. Have you got the right image in your head ??
It's a funny thing but people I know only check their e-mails once or twice a week, yet they used to go out to their letter-box every day. It's a funny old world.
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But we still check our mailbox - the physical one - daily.
I'm wondering why your friends don't check their emails, pongo - they can't have much happening in their lives! I'd miss instructions and links for choir, school bookings, enquiries for poets and editors, friends asking about dog walks/cinema visits/party invites, publisher publicity asking me what size posters I want for talk at litfest on Thursday, in the last two days.
Not everyone needs to communicate via email.
Here's me at 83 stirring up 50 year olds.
I'm chairman of another committee and we have discussions, plan meetings, agendas,minutes, correspondence, ideas, all on line. Operate a business 100 miles away that we run So easy, way to go.
Looking at overseeing a newly set up trust so (finally) have installed Skype.
Trust members and operation is 100 miles away too. Will be able to chair meeting or at least join in. All so easy. Especially now our petrol is $2.40 a litre!!!!!!
Ain't it wonderful.
By the way - while I'm in rant mode, what do you think of the tissue issue? Kleenex man-size tissues are to have a name change because someone considers the name to be sexist - they're going to have to call them large tissues. Now I'm wondering what are they going to do about Tena Lady?
As in Chairman,manhole cover, man-made etc. It is collective noun meaning all people. Yes, a woman can be a chairman and create man-made objects.
Can even use the manhole cover if she wants. Further example of , so called, PC gone mad.
Perhaps I should have been in politics and sorted this world out though think have left my run a bit late. The Saudi goverment lied about the murder of the guy in their embassy but now admit it. So, this is government lying.
If governments lie it is the end of civilization. No standards, no morals no integrity. Hope fully will not live to 100 as don't know how much more of this corrupt world I can take. Do enjoy my little corner of it so may hang around a while yet. If only to annoy writers on-line.