Information Technology – designed to make life easy (A Rant…)

The problem with our cameras is that they take big photos, which limits the number of images on the average photo sharing site, without upgrading which involves the use of a credit card. The good thing about our cameras is that they come with photo sharing software. I obviously don’t need this for you lot – I just upload photos onto the Oakstump, but since there is no equivalent for Scraggy Crows I have used this to share photos from croquet.

It wasn’t easy of course – I’d forgotten the password, but Canon kindly mailed it to me, since they had my address registered on their database.  I logged on to the Canon site using my password that Canon had just mailed to me, and entering my e-mail address, that they had just used and Canon promptly assured me that this e-mail address, that they had just used,  didn’t exist. I somehow got around this, although unfortunately I can’t remember what I did, and so the problem will recur.

To make life easier Canon offered an option that no password is required to see the photos, but I wasn’t actually allowed to select this option. Instead I had to make up a secret password, which Canon then included in their e-mail that was sent from the site to all whom I wished to view the photos.

Of course I had to add each e-mail address separately onto the site, but before I pressed “send” I had a phone call, and the bloody Canon site timed out before I sent the “invitation” and I had to start all over again.

Thank goodness there is the Oakstump for family photos.

Yours grumpily (I worked last night ) Neil.