The glamourous pitfalls of technology...

OK, so as stated earlier by myself in my June 29th post, my sister has been craving for an updated U2 special edition iPod with new color screen, and I've been pining away for a Motorola V3 RAZR cell phone. As luck would have it, I came into some overtime hours at work, and I am now the proud owner of a RAZR (gotta "keep up with the Jones'," or in my case, the "Ingebretson's"). And, depending on how fast UPS sends their trucks out of Memphis, my sister and I will also be the recipients of new U2 color screen iPods. There's another $800 out of my paycheck!!!

Speaking of technology, why do hospitals never seem to train people well enough when they decide to implement new computer softwares and systems. The hospital I work at over the weekend started implementing online chart ordering, and in the process of going paperless, we have added about 12 steps and 5-10 minutes to the scheduling process. Now I am decently computer savvy. I'm not an expert, but I am not necessarily a novice either, and I can pick up new things pretty quickly. But I do take pity on many of my co-workers,a few of whom wouldn't know which button to push to even turn a computer on, much less wade through this new ordering and scheduling process. I'm just glad I don't work Mondays when all the poop will hit the fan bigtime!

And one last thing. Spyware is VERY NASTY, and I cannot wait for Congress to outlaw it. After many months of meticulious prepairing and scanning and firewalling, my computer is the victim of a variant of the "CoolWebSearch" adware, which is a nastly little program that I haven't a clue where I picked it up from. It is slowing down my computer (mostly in the shutddown procedure. Before it used to take only about a minute for my computer to shutdown, and now it takes anywhere from three to five minutes to fully shutdown!), and it is also possibly mucking with some of my firewall settings, as I am unable to use Microsoft Outlook Express without having to turn off my Norton Internet Security Suite. Pain in the ass!!! My Webroot SpySweeper program will detect it, but it is unable to fully delete the pesky bugger, and a few other programs I have tried either won't see it, or it won't delete it. My advice to you is to make sure all anti-spyware programs are up to date on your computer, and if at all possible, have two anti-spyware programs. And stop visiting those porno sites for God's sake! You're gonna go blind one day looking at it all;-)