Fun With Computers
Ugh. This has not been a good day.
For the last few days, I’ve noticed that my blog wasn’t showing me my posts from Friday. Blogger wouldn’t let me in, and when I was finally able to re-load the page, it lost the comments from the last few posts (for reasons that I have not yet been able to deduce.)
To compound things, I got my new computer yesterday, and since I had many errands to run, I left it until today to set up. After problems with my old CD-RW (which caused me to burn 5 coasters taking about 40 minutes each), I foolishly attempted to set up the AirPort network for my Powerbook.
Now, switching data from one computer to another is something I’ve done more than a few times. I expected it to take the better part of the day, but I figured that by the time “Alias” came on, I would be in pretty good shape, and I could, say, start experimenting with MacOS X. Well, that all went to shit, because first AirPort wouldn’t give me the throughput that I wanted, and then the base station just sort of…well, disappeared…entirely. At about midnight, I got fed up, disconnected the base station and restored the ethernet connection to my old computer.
With any luck, I’ll have time to call Apple after work tomorrow (but before my Post-Mortem meeting in Brooklyn tomorrow night) and find out how the hell I screwed this “simple” procedure up.
I say again: “Ugh.”