EMBRACING NEW EMBRACING OLD
Sunday June 17, 2018
Surprises show up every day whether we notice or not.
Recent collisions with technology reminded me of those penalty calls in football, where a player hits someone from behind – it’s called clipping. Imagine running along, just fine, without anyone in your way and your feet get pulled from under you and you don’t understand why …
We’ve all had that experience.
I’ve been ‘moving’ my email distribution lists from one supplier to another – for a service more suited to my needs, a better more robust model, lower costs. Compound that with ‘adjusting to new European rules – GDPR – just going into effect. Going smoothly – and, so it seemed, no need to do anything but daily postings on websites …
Until, oops!
My updates on my websites were apparently loading as I hit ‘publish’, so the system was telling me – but looking on the internet, clearly my upload hadn’t uploaded. Thinking this ‘just a glitch’, I called my webhosting company for a fix. Amy helped. Next day, same problem. I called again. Kevin helped. Kevin triggered an ‘escalate’ to another department for a better fix because he, like me, feared the same thing happening day after day. Yay Kevin. This story isn’t over – but I found an interesting set of comments from Amy intriguing. The website formats are ‘old’ and their software tools have been improved/updated, while I’m still using ‘the old tools’. And, I might be using ‘too new’ a browser to be compatible with my ‘old technology site’. It was funny – and of course her (and Kevin’s) description of ‘updating/refreshing registrations’ seemed so much like ‘kick the Coke machine’ days of old.
