My classmates have already followed the saga of the Nightmare On Angel Page over the weekend. Internet Explorer is STILL not my friend, though I did manage to make it work most of the time today.
For the unaware few who might be reading this tale for the first time, Angel is an online instruction vehicle used by Trevecca, where our assignments are posted and turned in. For this week's meeting, we had work posted online in several formats, the most important of which was a sound and slide lecture presentation which required IE but which IE refused to open for me in any shape, form or fashion. After repeated attempts to open the lecture, and several increasingly frantic and frustrated e-mails to the class listserv, I finally had to give up and leave the computer for a while. When I returned after dinner, I tried everything I could think of, still without rousing success before I finally gave up around 11:30 and went to bed.
I still don't know what it was that I finally did, but this morning the file finally opened for me, so I spent the day catching up on what I should have done yesterday. One thing my frantic search for a way to open that lecture file was add to my arsenal of evaluation tools. I have now not one but three browsers installed on my computer, so I was able to compare browser compatibility as well as other aspects of the websites we were inspecting.
I wish I could say I had learned a great deal more than I actually have from this experience. I did so darn many things in my attempts to get IE to work that I am not really sure what actually worked.
And Dell never called me back as promised. Tomorrow I intend to call and yell at them a while. For now, I am ready to chill out for a while!
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OOPS!! Spellcheck doe not do titles, I see! Forgive the typos, folks; it's been a long hard weekend! And the clock is wrong on the post time. It's 11:16!
Linda this is the first time I have visited your blog since day one. Enjoyed your posts. I did some bathroom remodeling also this summer! Nice picture of the cat although I was kinda in the dark about the cow picture I thought maybe is was some kinda threat to DELL that you were switching to their competitor. HA. My cat tries desperately to sit on my keyboard when I am working! So sorry you are having so many problems. I have had my own as well so I feel ya!
REMEMBER, LINDA--
It can be a cold and brutal world out there, yet we are safe and secure in front of our warm* and fuzzy** computers!
I, too, noticed the "real clock time" is incorrect.
*warm, from overuse of the equipment
**fuzzy, because eyeballs have crossed + dilation has occurred
You have a great blog- I like the pictures. I will have to learn how to add some to my blog. Thanks for your comments.
I like Carolyn's definitions of warm and fuzzy. I think right now my computer is a little on the warm side and I have a feeling that Dell's customer service reps may be feeling a little warm after you finish with them. Don't give up. You have the arsenal needed to be a problem solver when it comes to software.
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