Victim of Technology
I’d just finished uploading a picture to my Flickr account where I extolled “the marvels of 21st century technology” when the desktop computer froze on me and wouldn’t let me do anything, not even shut down to restart.
As I was having a good online chat with mellowbug in Toronto, I scrambled to wake up my PowerBook so I could start up MSN Messenger there and continue chatting with her. Alas, MSN Messenger on my PB said there is a newer version, did I want to install it? I clicked no, followed by sign-in, but the message appeared again. And again. It looked like I could only sign in if I agreed to installing the newer version, so I did but with great reluctance. The installing process got underway, while over at the desktop, the system was being checked for bugs, as it’d been shut down without going through the usual (read: proper) process.
I decided to see which would be faster - the desktop or the PB. The former won. I was back online, but mellowbug was not. 
The marvels of 21st century technology? My foot. 
