USB Nightmare

Your pleasing array of colours do not fool me into forgetting you are the Devil's agent

In theory, the concept of a USB key is amazing. Write loads of stuff and pop it into a tiny magical stick which holds it for you until further use! Yet there are literally dozens of things that can go wrong in execution. The amount of times I’ve accidentally copied a shortcut instead of the actual document, or the wrong version, or thinking I’ve finally done it right this time only to learn I forgot to convert from .wps and my paper is a strange collection of dots and dashes resembling what I assume Morse code would like were I the seafaring type. Now anytime I must get my work from my humble laptop to the second-rate computers within the hallowed halls of my educational institution I go through so much double checking and e-mailing as backup that as I might as well copy the entire thing BY GODDAMN HAND as it would probably take less time and cause less stress-induced sweaty palms. Anyways, enough ranting. I must now channel my energy into recalling the last third of my Religions paper.

~ by aconno on March 8, 2009.