bktheirregular | The personality of technology

I was just about finished mentally composing a LJ entry with the following thought:

My laptop isn't talking to the router anymore. I swear, if I didn't know better, I'd think that Cortana had caught the router in bed with a Powerbook.

So, of course, when I power up the laptop, I find that's not the case at all; Cortana is acting like a perfect lady, talking to the router as though nothing is wrong.

All the other computers in the house are getting along just peachy with the new router, whether through Cat-5 or wireless connections; my laptop is working marvelously with the wireless connection at Save The World Inc.

If I had to pick a word for my laptop's personality at the moment, I think the word would be ... mercurial. Versatile, powerful, and for the most part reliable, but moody at times, and on rare occasions, prone to throw a tantrum.

Don't get me wrong; Cortana's a great machine, with about everything I could ask out of a portable computer, these days. But right now, when I get home and turn her on, it's a crapshoot whether she'll connect to the Internet.

Tomorrow I think I'll upgrade the router's firmware, and see if that helps matters. If not ... *sigh*