At home I have a computer - this is no news to most of us, as I have posted on this blog at all times of the day and some odd times of the night over the years. It goes most of the time. It starts kindof slowly, and loads up the programs in a leisurely way, but once they are there they are stable and they move quickly. I'm guessing a lot more hard drive would probably speed things up, but I admit to being a little nervous of actually having a look at how much of the hard drive is still there for storing photos.
At school, I have this here laptop. So do all the other teachers have laptops. They were all new last year, and have heaps of memory and general go power. Somehow it is really hard to keep these things going. Using them to play a dvd can stuff them up. Using them on the internet at home is terminal. When I am in a particularly cynical mood, it seems to me that using them is the real problem, and that our computer dude would really prefer that we did no more than keep the role on them. In order to make us feel completely helpless and deeply irritated, we don't have many rights on the things, so we can't fix any little stuff that I would sort on my own computer. I have to go like a naughty child and ask for help to fix things. And the first question is always "What have you been doing?", in a tone that suggests I have been creating viruses and downloading p**n on the school computer!
Do you know it is costing me $60 to have the kids looked after today while I come in here to do some work and it took all morning to log on?
So I'd better stop clowning around here and get something that would count as work done. So far I have arranged the desks and chairs...