Tech problems
- 5 hours ago
- 3 min read
"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three." Alice Kahn
The expression on the guy's face is a bit like I feel. So I'm going to vent a bit. You are probably not interested in the problem and my attempts to solve it, but I feel the need to rage at the machine.
You may have noticed you are not getting any emails telling you I have written yet another brilliant piece of triviality. I only realised after a few days, when David asked if I had been writing any. And yes I have - almost every day. I should have realised I suppose, because although I never have many views of my tiny corner of the internet universe, of late there have been hardly any, and I don't think the standard has gone up or down particularly.
I should say by the way that I am not doing this whole thing to gain an audience of millions, even tens, but just to amuse myself. My starting point was boredom after all.
The lack of notifications going out has happened before, and I thought I had solved it, be deleting weird email addresses with NEVER SUBSCRIBED next to their names. Which, today I found out means that they had looked at a post but not subscribed. Well why should they? And why do they get noted anyway? In any case I actually don't think that's the reason, because very occasionally a post has many more views than the number I know I usually get - around 5 or 6. And that excess number of email addresses does not show up in my contacts list.
Of course the answer was AI generated - and I notice that in small print under their AI replies to questions - they do say that there may be errors so check elsewhere.
But back to my problem. Having eliminated the offending emails - although theoretically, since I haven't selected them, they shouldn't matter anyway ... No you don't want to hear about the actual problem.
The real issue here is that I'm pretty sure that there is some guy or girl in Wix Help Centre somewhere who could be spoken to but how? I would be grateful if I could just press three on my phone. First you have to work through their Help - ask your question and at the top you get an AI response, and then you get a whole heap of Help articles - and they have thousands - that might help. When that fails you can speak to Cara - well I don't think I can, because I am using a non-talking screen. It's just a screen. It may be possible to eventually get through to an 'expert' but again I have the talking problem. Why can't I do this by email? Alas there is no email address anywhere.
So I tried to sort it out myself, and now I think I have a problem of having sent as many emails as I can this month. Which is curious because it's never mattered before. So I am now at a temporary dead end for I think, unless I can muster the energy to again tackle Help.
It's sort of the same thing as the AI in my opening cartoon is telling the angry guy "It's not a bug, it's a feature".
Hopefully next month - a mere 5 days away - all will be well again.
AArgh!
"Technology…is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." C. P. Snow
YEARS GONE BY
June 26 - another magic number - even more than my birthday - 26-06-2026
2025 - Nothing
2024 - Nothing
2023 - Nothing
2021 - Missing
2020 - Missing
2017 - On holiday
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