ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Here are two tech-related D'oh! episodes that I have suffered recently:
#1 My Memory Map software suddenly stopped displaying altitude profiles. I use profiles a lot when planning my rides. This is an example of one, [HINT - for the forum ride currently advertised in my signature link, which you would LOVE, so click the link and sign up!
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This problem needed fixing - FAST!
I put my tech hat on, and searched the Internet for clues. I made sure that all the files were where they were supposed to be. I deleted the software's temporary files in case any were corrupted. I checked the entire disk drive for errors. I scanned the software's registry entries - they looked ok. I toyed with reinstalling the software ...
But then I noticed that there actually was an elevation profile window, only I had accidentally dragged it to the very bottom of the screen so that only a couple of pixels of it were visible ... D'oh!
#2 I went out for a ride this afternoon on my new cyclocross bike. When I got home, I tried to download the photos from my phone to put in a 'Your Ride Today' report. There weren't any photos! That was strange because I had taken at least 20.
Ah, I had probably forgotten to tell the phone to save the pictures on the new memory card rather than in phone memory. I looked at the phone memory instead. No photos!
Bloody technology! Why is it that it always seems to go wrong for me?
I was still pondering that question when I saw my new digital camera sitting next to my phone. That would be the camera I have just bought to take with me for ride photos. Like today for instance. The camera that I have just put the new memory card in. The one I took the photos with. The one without the lead plugged into it ... D'oh!
Your turn!
#1 My Memory Map software suddenly stopped displaying altitude profiles. I use profiles a lot when planning my rides. This is an example of one, [HINT - for the forum ride currently advertised in my signature link, which you would LOVE, so click the link and sign up!
]This problem needed fixing - FAST!
I put my tech hat on, and searched the Internet for clues. I made sure that all the files were where they were supposed to be. I deleted the software's temporary files in case any were corrupted. I checked the entire disk drive for errors. I scanned the software's registry entries - they looked ok. I toyed with reinstalling the software ...
But then I noticed that there actually was an elevation profile window, only I had accidentally dragged it to the very bottom of the screen so that only a couple of pixels of it were visible ... D'oh!
#2 I went out for a ride this afternoon on my new cyclocross bike. When I got home, I tried to download the photos from my phone to put in a 'Your Ride Today' report. There weren't any photos! That was strange because I had taken at least 20.
Ah, I had probably forgotten to tell the phone to save the pictures on the new memory card rather than in phone memory. I looked at the phone memory instead. No photos!
Bloody technology! Why is it that it always seems to go wrong for me?
I was still pondering that question when I saw my new digital camera sitting next to my phone. That would be the camera I have just bought to take with me for ride photos. Like today for instance. The camera that I have just put the new memory card in. The one I took the photos with. The one without the lead plugged into it ... D'oh!
Your turn!
