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Not Necessarily Behind!

How I laugh at those who have chosen to jump upon the new-school bandwagon without looking where that bandwagon is heading! cliff with a severe drop that says “woops”at the bottom in big red letters.) I am talking, of course, about those who have recently purchased a new-fangled iphone, Blackberry or Galaxy S Phone. Why do I laugh? The answer, if you have sat next to someone on the train recently who owns one – or if you own one yourself – should be plainly obvious: although these phones look incredible and have many “apps” and what not, they can’t compare with the simplicity of my ten year-old trusty Nokia phone, and here is for why:

1) My Nokia phone, though crap-looking and lacking one tenth of the features of a new-fangled, is practically unbreakable. Yes people: I can chuck it at a brick wall, drop it from a building of great height and even have it run over by cattle (this recently happened and my, did it require some cleaning afterward…). What can you do with your new-fangled, then? I witnessed a man sneeze on his yesterday on the train and the machine could not hack it. Thus my point is made.

2) My Nokia phone, though lacking any sense of style or fashion, is simple and easy to use. It does what it needs to, and it doesn’t “crash.”

3) My Nokia phone, though with terrible reception and many other problems – such as that you have to stand perfectly still to be able to use it – has big buttons which even a gorilla could use, whereas your new-fangled is designed only to be used by those with children’s fingers. And I believe that seals the deal people. Yes, I am stuck in the olden days of mobile phone technology, but that does not mean that I am necessarily behind!

Brits are likely to get mad with PC’s

Surprisingly, according to an article posted by TechEYE.net - http://www.techeye.net/hardware/britons-more-likely-to-get-angry-with-pcs-than-humans - Britons are more likey to get mad at their computers than at their partners. So it seems that most of us get more mad at when our computer crashes rather than after looking at the latest credit card bill of your partner’s or if they happen to spend too much time at the pub.

Online security software company AVG found out that almost half of the people who took the survey lost their temper most at their PC instead of anything else. 3,000 people took part in this surprising survey, with the top three reasons as to why they were annoyed was due to the PC’s crashing, too many pop ups or simply being too slow to work.

The findings of the survey also found out that one in ten computer users did not use anti-virus protection on their computers, and a quarter of the users lost information on their PC due to a virus, and the average household has two PC’s.

Managing Director of AVG UK, Mike Forman, on these results said “It’s astonishing how much we store on our personal computers today and how open we can leave ourselves to cyber criminals.”

It seems that people are more mad at their computers being slow to react compared to a cheap gas cooker being too slow to cook their food, with more people using computers for their day to day activities, it is no wonder that when they break down it halts their lives. People storing more and more data on these computers also face a tragedy if they lose the data to a virus without backing up and using appropriate software.

The Greatness Of It!

No offence intended but Special Needs Teaching Jobs can be quite hard work. I should know, I used to be a bit special needs at school and now I am a special needs teacher! I know… Now, very often, on Saturday mornings after a long hard week of work, the first thing I need is a can of cold baked beans. Yes, you did read correctly. I know that might sound a bit strange but it’s just something I have More

Better Than A Lighter

On at the cinema right now is a horror / suspense film called “Buried” and, unsurprisingly, it’s about a man who wakes up in a coffin, buried. Obviously this is a scenario in which you can’t help but be suspicious: what has this man done? you can’t help but wonder. Was he a member of fuck buddy Birmingham? Or maybe he’s not paid his council tax on time and the council are just sick of it. Who knows, but More