This morning, as I set my laptop to boot and walked away to get fill my water bottle, water the plants and start a new work day, I came back to realize that my laptop had decided to revolt. It refused to boot and spewed some error about something missing and hence being rendered unable to login and/or connect to the network.
With my limited PC skills, I tried to remedy the situation- not very successfully though. After about an hour of wrestling I decided to admit defeat and called the HelpDesk. I left a message describing my problem and requested express service since I was incapacitated. Some 3 hours later I got a call from them asking for more information about the problem at hand. Another hour later, as I was walking to the break room to grab a late lunch, I noticed a petite woman walking the aisle with a piece of paper in hand. As my eyes followed her, I observed she was headed towards my cube. I walked up to her and pretty soon realized she was going to be my savior.
I provided her with my login details so that she could be well on her way, offered her my chair and walked off for a long lunch. When I got back, I found a yellow sticky...from Faith. That was the person that had been my savior and had fixed my main mode of income-generation. She had left her contact information and a smiley face caricature as her signature.
Faith, what a positive-affirmation kind of name to have. Innit?
And on that topic, I noticed there was this new thing on facebook - a group that people could join to aid the cause of having a 'dislike' option. Like you know- 'Comment', 'Like' and now possibly 'Dislike'. I don't get it. Why specifically call out something negative. If you don't like something, you stay away from using the 'like' button. Period. Why do you need to express the 'dislike'? Whatever.
I read somewhere that 'Positive anything is better than negative nothing'. Enough said!
Positive affirmation
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
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3 mint(s) of wisdom:
Only Faith can bring a computer back in :) I totally understand the need for a dislike button. Say, someone's status says "I am not feeling well." It would be useful to have a dislike button. Which would mean I don't like that the person is unwell and he better get well soon.
DotT : I had initially titled the post 'The day Faith rescued my PC' :). On the dislike topic, if you have a status saying you're unwell where does the option to like/dislike your status come? You are either sympathetic or you want to help or anything else but a question of like/dislike wouldn't it? I can understand having 'get well soon' or 'hope you feel better' status, but 'dislike'? And moreover what other cases are there to use this option?
so true! ` the last line i mean!
I hope you have been well!
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