I doubt it made the international news but I'm sure everyone in the UK is aware of the awful storms we had here in London last night. The thunder and lightening were pretty impressive and loud! The rain was relentless and the air was very humid.
Consequently I did not sleep well.
We were not subject to any flooding although there was a bit of dampness on the cellar floor, nothing out of the usual. Our nearby station of Manor Park was flooded though and that disrupted the overground train services this morning. My son was not impressed. Sounds like he ended up walking to Stratford to get on the underground. This was after he'd also endured a cold shower as a power outage in the night had disrupted the timer on the boiler!
Some areas were badly affected with several polling stations having to be relocated due to flooding and the travel disruption has been quite widespread. I think it's a bit harsh when everyone complains about how we don't cope well with extreme weather here in the UK but hey it's EXTREME. We don't usually get a month's rainfall in one night. It's hard to prepare for that. I'm really glad I got my grass cut yesterday though. It's probably grown an inch overnight.
Fortunately our internet is working again today. It was out of service from about 6 last night until after the power cut. Hubby was frustrated enough this morning at trying to set up a mobile hotspot on his phones so that he could hook his work tablet up through that to enable him to get a piece of work done urgently. If there was no internet I think smoke would be coming out of his ears!
Smoke was nearly coming out of mine as I had to do most of the IT sorting for him in my tired state (he is so last century on electrical gadgets) and on what is supposed to be his day off!
My sense of humour has just been restored though. In connecting up his phone and tablet I had to unplug the microwave. I just heard him trying to warm up his coffee and the predictable grumbling when it wouldn't work! I think I will definitely have to replace the Mr Grumpy mug! (Go here to understand.)
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Thursday, 23 June 2016
Saturday, 5 March 2016
Is your cyber life death prepared?
A blog friend posted tonight about how friends just suddenly stop blogging and disappear. Except they don't vanish into a black hole because their blog remains as it was since their last entry was posted. And unless you know that person in real life you may never know what happened or if they are going to return after a break for whatever reason.
That started me thinking about what would happen to my blog when I die. I know that many people choose to blog anonymously so unlike your funeral wishes (I wrote about that here in my post A letter to my Children.) those left behing might not even know there is a blog to deal with let alone what to do with it.
My Facebook pages and things like Goodreads are seen by other family members so I'm sure, eventually, something would be done about those. My blog is only seen by one member of my extended family so I'm relying on her to close it down. She's pretty internet savvy so I'm sure she'll work it out. I'm also now a lot older than her due to her insistence of not aging beyond a certain point despite there being only 4 months between our birthdays!
Hopefully this won't be an issue for my family just yet but with the ever expanding virtual world there are so many things that could need closing down and removing from the web. Although we all know that once something is put out on the internet you can never completely remove it.
Going paperless is a good thing but it's hard to follow a virtual trail.
It's sad that it's taken a bereavement to bring this all to mind. This is the first year when neither hubby or I have Mothers to visit/call on Mother's Day (tomorrow here in the UK) but I had a delivery of lovely flowers and chocolates from my daughter today so that cheered me up. She's currently in Rome so I won't see her until later in the week but thanks to the internet we have been able to be in touch.
There are lots of good things to be said for the internet and the advances in technology but sometimes I do think the changes and innovations are happening so fast we don't have time to consider all the implications. Maybe I need to revisit that letter to my children!
That started me thinking about what would happen to my blog when I die. I know that many people choose to blog anonymously so unlike your funeral wishes (I wrote about that here in my post A letter to my Children.) those left behing might not even know there is a blog to deal with let alone what to do with it.
My Facebook pages and things like Goodreads are seen by other family members so I'm sure, eventually, something would be done about those. My blog is only seen by one member of my extended family so I'm relying on her to close it down. She's pretty internet savvy so I'm sure she'll work it out. I'm also now a lot older than her due to her insistence of not aging beyond a certain point despite there being only 4 months between our birthdays!
Hopefully this won't be an issue for my family just yet but with the ever expanding virtual world there are so many things that could need closing down and removing from the web. Although we all know that once something is put out on the internet you can never completely remove it.
Going paperless is a good thing but it's hard to follow a virtual trail.
It's sad that it's taken a bereavement to bring this all to mind. This is the first year when neither hubby or I have Mothers to visit/call on Mother's Day (tomorrow here in the UK) but I had a delivery of lovely flowers and chocolates from my daughter today so that cheered me up. She's currently in Rome so I won't see her until later in the week but thanks to the internet we have been able to be in touch.
There are lots of good things to be said for the internet and the advances in technology but sometimes I do think the changes and innovations are happening so fast we don't have time to consider all the implications. Maybe I need to revisit that letter to my children!
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