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Article: Gadgets can make writer's life easy, only if they work.(Commentary)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- December 8, 2003
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I Walk into my home office ready to work. My computer is not. It seems to have smoked crack overnight and will not function, despite repeated rebooting and several sharp slaps to the CPU.
I call technical support. Technical support explains that I am in deep waste matter and must reinstall the operating system. This, in turn, will require me to reinstall all my software and hardware.
Crying like a baby will not help.
I reinstall the operating system. Also, my scanner and printer, my Scrabble and SimCity, my Bible and dictionaries, and a bunch of other stuff. Working off and on, this takes a few days.
When I am done, the computer has ...