I've been using computers since 1979, and in those many years, I've acquired a sixth sense about the nature of technical problems.
Unfortunately, sometimes these problems don't yield very descriptive terminology. My laptop – one of three that I use daily – is acting………well………weird. I'm not sure if it's a hard drive problem, although I have, several times now, pressed my ear hard up against the case of my laptop and listened for a while. I imagine fellow patrons at Starbucks – – or passers-by in the street (yes, I do this while I'm walking too) must wonder what I'm doing.
I can tell you this, though – when I fire up Camtasia, the process appears in the Task Manager, but the application never actually becomes visible.
In any event, my laptops all serve different functions, and this particular one is used for blogging and – more important – putting together my videos. I was full off piss 'n' vinegar this afternoon, and I jotted down the outline of what I think would have been a really fun video. But, alas, I'm still combating laptop woes at this point.
I hope this poor little machine is in at least decent enough shape to serve as my blogging platform. I'm going to keep tinkering with it, and – who knows – if I have some kind of breakthrough – maybe my video will come to be after all.
