Enter the Matrix!!

The Matrix exists & its out there to get us all - recently I had a para-techno experience (that's my way of saying technology driven paranormal experience). I was working on this Toshiba laptop which won’t boot to Win XP, well it looked like any other every day issue to me but it was NOT.

The laptop would not boot to Win XP & it wont give me any error message (think of the Matrix without those dropping alpha-numeric signs), just a black blank screen staring at me, no numbers, no nothing.

Enter my boss who like Neo used his magical fingers & hit ctrl+alt+del Whooooooosh!! the system rebooted to a screen which said "Resuming Windows".....whaaaat!!!!!!!! I mean no ways that could happen. What's so strange about it, well I rebooted & hard booted the laptop several times & went inside BIOS to set the settings to default which didn’t do anything & after a ctrl+alt+del its telling me "resuming windows..."

During all this I stood there like a clueless Morpheus & kept on believing that there's no laptop & there's no Win XP....nothing existed

Zion (the laptop) came to life & its all because of my boss - well actually the problem still existed but so did the machine world. So beware all you nerds & techno-freaks…the time is coming & it has already started.

Author’s Note: No part of this blog is fiction - my boss actually DID the 3 fingers trick to invoke the powers within & hit ctrl+alt+del. I have alibi to prove it.

The Lost Symbol

At the very outset, I’d like to thank Jason for making me a part of this website. He’s been kind in inviting me to this personal group of bloggers so thank you Jason…thanks for counting me in.

Since this is my first post, I am going to keep it sweet & simple. I don’t want people subscribing to my beliefs in such early stages J (haha I saw that eyebrow raising)

I am a part of an elite (in our own ways) technology driven team & I take pride in it. I am “still picking up” ropes but wouldn’t consider myself as a noobie. I am no G.I.Joe & I certainly have no connection with Area 51. I do the simple job of keeping people off-the-area known as “Commonly-Operated-Machine-Practically-Used-for-Trade-Education-Research”. Now don’t get me wrong & I don’t mean any offence but what will you call this;

Me: IT

Caller: I have a problem

Me: How can I help?

Caller: I am not able to connect to the internet can you have a look?

Me: Sure, which computer?

Caller: How do I tell?

Me: Is there a tag or sticker on the CPU?

Caller: What’s a CPU?

Me: The black box thing!!

Caller: I don’t see one.

Me: well OK, apart from the monitor what all do you see?

Caller: keyboard & mouse, that’s it.

Me: ** ahem ** OK, can you press ctrl+alt+f1 on the keyboard

Caller: Where???

Me: On the keyboard, you just told me you have a keyboard.

Caller: Oh yeah…so what am I pressing?

Me: ctrl+alt+f1…all keys together or you can hold the ctrl+alt key & then hit f1

Caller: done, nothing happened

Me: Can you try again?

Caller: nothing

Me: Which key’s are you pressing?

Caller: Ctrl+Alt+F+1

Me: it’s the F1 key, top row on the keyboard & not f+1

Caller: thanks for telling me that mate, I know what you are talking about & I am a computer literate person, I am telling you nothing is happening

Me: ** I wish I could say RTFM for keyboard ** Ok, just one more time if you can pleeaaaaaaaaasssssssssseeeeeeeeeee (I cant stress enough) look at the top row on your keyboard & tell me what it says?

Caller: Aha..there you go…I found the F1 key

(Yes sir, you sure did – you are like that zombie in Resident Evil who knew how to use a cell phone but couldn’t do the plastic object maze matching)

Now I know that it’s not funny to make fun of people. Perhaps they are good at something else & I am not proclaiming to be a wizard – but why shout your qualifications at me when you certainly don’t have the intellect to distinguish between Jack & Jill & Jack Daniels.