Tag: technology

  • Life Without a Cell Phone

    My name is Linda, and it has been 19 days since I last texted. Life without a cell phone wasn’t actually that bad for the first few days after inadvertently killing my Apple account. In fact, there was a certain sense of adventure that came with heading off into the world without the safety net of perpetual…

  • How NOT to Update Your iPhone (A Tale of Technological Woe)

    So last Friday morning, there I was, blithely swiping away through Facebook on my iPhone while avoiding getting out of bed, when a notification popped up reminding me that I still hadn’t updated to the latest iOS. “Huh,” I thought. “I have a few minutes to spare, I’ll do that now.” So I plugged in…

  • Beware the Gods of Technological Chaos

    So I’ve been absent from the blog for a few days, but I have a good excuse. Several, actually. First, my laptop flashed me the Blue Screen of Death…not once, but twice. The first time, it corrupted the Scrivener project file for book 3, Sins of the Righteous. Fortunately, I had backed up the file…