I like technology, I love gadgets and when they are simple and work first time I’m in heaven.

To get around the WiFi-less dead spot in the front room I recently bought a couple of Powerline ethernet adapters. I was a little skeptical as my WiFi router is on one ring main, the ground floor is on another but I was pleasantly suprised to find that not only did they work but that they both worked on four gang power extensions.

Tonight K and I were at Martin’s having a Thai banquet. “Don’t worry about your PC, I think it’s the firewall and anti-virus I put on it fighting McAfee, it’s a ten minute job”, I told him as the plates were cleared away.

By 11:0 pm I was close to giving up. I’d removed all the software I had provided for them. With McAfee re-installed I tried the parental controls, was shocked to find that the one site I picked it had allowed. But even worse was the fact that it didn’t allow any outbound DNS lookups.

I guess that’s the price you pay for easy to use technology. At some point the IT Gods catch up with you and you find yourself re-installing all the things you just removed….