Our local coop store has some empty shelves. Quite a few empty shelves, in fact. The slIghtly larger coop store in Uppermill also has some gaps but not quite so many. Some time last week in our local store they were having to take cash payments only as the IT system was not working: no card payments, no cash machine, not even the ability to swipe your Co-op loyalty card. Maybe we should go back to the system from my childhood where there was one cashier for the whole store, with a large notebook in which he noted down the customer’s name, membership number (9232 in my mother’s case) and amount spent and worked out the ‘divi’ (short for dividend). It was a slower system but then, the world was a whole lot slower back in the 1950s and 1960s.
Yesterday I overheard one of the cashiers explaining to the customer ahead of me that the Co-op as a whole had been hacked, as had Marks and Spencer and a few other places she had heard of. This has messed the system up and so they have “supply issues”.
Today I read this report:
“Passengers flying out of London Stansted airport on Sunday morning experienced large queues, delays and some missed flights after an IT problem affected check-in, baggage and security systems.
Images posted on social media showed long queues and although the issue was said to have been resolved, passengers were advised to stay in touch with their airlines as some flights faced possible delays.”
Hmm! Maybe the survivalists are correct and we need to start stockpiling essentials in preparation for a breakdown of the modern world of computer-aided everything!
On the subject of computers, here’s a link to a quite long but interesting article, a bit of a tirade against the use of AI in the arts.
Our local coop store has some empty shelves. Quite a few empty shelves, in fact. The slIghtly larger coop store in Uppermill also has some gaps but not quite so many. Some time last week in our local store they were having to take cash payments only as the IT system was not working: no card payments, no cash machine, not even the ability to swipe your Co-op loyalty card. Maybe we should go back to the system from my childhood where there was one cashier for the whole store, with a large notebook in which he noted down the customer’s name, membership number (9232 in my mother’s case) and amount spent and worked out the ‘divi’ (short for dividend). It was a slower system but then, the world was a whole lot slower back in the 1950s and 1960s.
Yesterday I overheard one of the cashiers explaining to the customer ahead of me that the Co-op as a whole had been hacked, as had Marks and Spencer and a few other places she had heard of. This has messed the system up and so they have “supply issues”.
Today I read this report:
“Passengers flying out of London Stansted airport on Sunday morning experienced large queues, delays and some missed flights after an IT problem affected check-in, baggage and security systems.
Images posted on social media showed long queues and although the issue was said to have been resolved, passengers were advised to stay in touch with their airlines as some flights faced possible delays.”
Hmm! Maybe the survivalists are correct and we need to start stockpiling essentials in preparation for a breakdown of the modern world of computer-aided everything!
On the subject of computers, here’s a link to a quite long but interesting article, a bit of a tirade against the use of AI in the arts.
And still on the subject of computers, this morning Phil asked me why I have not posted on my blog pictures of our recent walks through the bluebell woods. Well, quite simply because for a while now blogger has been telling me “Sorry, we are unable to copy your photos onto your blog”. So today, my computer expert, aka Phil, set about finding a way round the problem. With a bit of luck, it will still work as I post this.
And here, I hope, are some pictures of this beautiful May morning’s flowers.
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
And still on the subject of computers, this morning Phil asked me why I have not posted on my blog pictures of our recent walks through the bluebell woods. Well, quite simply because for a while now blogger has been telling me “Sorry, we are unable to copy your photos onto your blog”. So today, my computer expert, aka Phil, set about finding a way round the problem. With a bit of luck, it will still work as I post this.
And here, I hope, are some pictures of this beautiful May morning’s flowers.
Nope! It’s not let me post those. I’ll try again tomorrow.
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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