Sunday, April 15, 2012

Friday the 13th - the Day My (electronic) Brain Died


I know I can be old fashioned (unwilling to change) so I do some things the same as I have for years. I use a Palm Z-22 every day! Friday the 13th it died. Black screen, no response.

I spent the better part of three days attempting recovery by following every silly suggestion on the Internet. Hold the "up" button while pressing the "reset" button, while standing in an inch of fresh-mowed grass. Take off the screen protector and run a business card around the perimeter of the screen while chanting "Apple will never make it" (even though they have more cash on hand than the U.S. Gov't).

No big deal, I backed-up the info...eighteen months ago (I may be late for class). Let’s see…everything I have scheduled for the next year, address and phone number of every person I know, and most important is every password of every website I use. (Don’t fuss at me, they are all in code – a hacker would never guess that my name backwards would be my password for EVERY site).

Well, today I was inspired to try plugging the charger into a different outlet. It's now working fine! Ok, the next half-day was spent backing-up my info on all my computers.

My friends suggest repeatedly that I need an i-pod, i-pad, i-phone, i-tunes, and more. i think i need to get on e-Bay and find a couple more Z-22’s in case this one dies for-real.

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