Haunted Hardware
I’m beginning to think that several pieces of our hardware are haunted. Either that or I have solid gold evidence that our hardware is developing its own artificial intelligence.
As evidence I’d like to produce the following examples as proof:
1. My trusty old mouse started registering a click as two clicks, a double click as three clicks …. I dread to think what three clicks would have registered as.
2. A few weeks ago our internet connection seemingly decided to throw a wobbly. Although we could access the internet in general, any of our own websites hosted on a particular (normally very reliable) hosting account was painfully slow. After shouting at our hosts and ISP (getting sense out of the ISP was an exercise in futility if ever there was one) we swapped routers around and back again as a last resort and lo, everything was lovely again. No idea what was going on there except that it was a possible comment on our websites by our router.
3. My PC started to go into hibernation of its own accord - even while I was using it. After wracking my brains for possible causes and beginning to face the dismal prospect of trying to fathom out which part of the innards of the PC was causing the problem, I swapped keyboards and again lo, everything was lovely. Clearly my keyboard was boring my PC to death.