10) No matter how often you save your work, your computer will always crash that one time you forget. It is usually something very important and will take you hours to recreate.
9) The one file you need access to, will for whatever reason suddenly become corrupted, even though the other 250gb of data on your hard drive is just fine. The changes of the file you need become corrupt increase with its importance, I.e last years tax return or your resume you spent hours working on a got “perfect”.
When in a hurry to look something up, your Internet connection will always slow to a crawl.
7) When searching for a site through Google, the one site that you really want to look at is always unavailable.
6) No matter how many times you check your code, as soon as it goes live, it will always instantly break.
5) When posting in your blog, the chances of your browser crashing increase exponentially with the length of article you are writing.
4) You try to tab switch when your boss walks by and your computer grinds to a halt, your hard drive is grinding away and your boss gets to see you surfing porn at work.
3) You go to your parents to fix their computer because they are having problems, you fix it and instantly by the time you get home something else is wrong with it. The problem becomes more profound the further away you live from them.
2) You buy the newest graphics card, DVD burner, photo printer etc, and as soon as you get it home and start using it, you find something way better and usually cheaper than what you bought.
1) Computers are out to get us, its not paranoia its a fact, just look at Dell batteries, they explode, if that’s not to be taken personally, well I don’t know what is.
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I’m so happy you joined in Chris!
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Thats true too. Maybe it should be, no matter how much you check it in Firefox, it will always be broken in IE, even if its the most simplest of pages.
Ha ha, these are soooo true. I think I’ve suffered from all ten!
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ROTFL!! Our list is up if you’d like to look… have a great day!
Great list! This was well done and true!!! It’s going to have to go on my “list of lists”!
hmmm, new campaign…… KillYourComputer?
http://joshmaher.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/top-ten-reasons-you-should-not-blog/
Thanks for the comments, its good to know that some folks appreciate my humour
Love this! I’m sending it to some friends who have chronic problems with their computers!
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#2 is always happening to me, but I try to avoid looking at newer models for at least several months after making a purchase. What I don’t know won’t hurt me.
Here’s mine.
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