COMPUTERS AND HAVING FUN

Within the past 6 weeks we have experienced problems with both of our primary computers. The first computer failure was with the old computer that is primarily used for customer invoices. It wasn't to hard to fix, a trip to the big box store and the purchase of one of their baseline machines and all is well. Well, except for the fact that this computer had Vista 64 on it and then all isn't well. Vista 64 won't accept most of the software that was on the old machine, but it did take the one program that we really needed. After two or three days all is better. Not too much expense and not too much stress.

The primary computer that keeps Whitlock Photography running decided to just give us fits. It has shut down enough to compete with Circuit City on shutting down. The big blue screen of death became our best friend. Theresa has taken a beating. She works extremely hard getting our images ready to be viewed and to lose them because of a computer that seemed to shut down everytime you turned around. She had a lot of time doing multiple images and all the other hard work she does on the images, to have this happen was awful. But because of how the computer was set up for the work that she does it was difficult to do anything. But the problems got to the point where changes had to be made. So a trip to the huge box store and we hope that the hardware problems have been fixed. Again we had to work with Vista 64. Very little of the software that was on the old machine will work on the new one. Some of the software will not work with 64 the rest of the software will work after installing new drivers and saying a prayer.

Again we apologize for falling behind with our work. We hope to have everything up to full speed very soon. At this point Theresa is working feverishly to catch up. So I think that the best thing I can do is to get out of the studio, guess I'll just cut the grass.

Bill