There's something happening with technology

I waited in line Saturday afternoon holding my precious laptop bag while the Geek Squad helped the people in front of me. I shifted foot to foot. Davin spun circles on a nearby stool.

When we got the the front, the woman behind the counter fired up my computer and asked me questions about the problem. Windows look-alike pop ups were telling me "Your computer is infected. Do you want to download anti-virus software now?" They weren't my Windows-style windows ... they were suspicious, with sharp corners instead of rounded ones; blue instead of silver header bars told me the thing giving me warning signs was probably the problem itself.

"You can't even add or delete programs in the system controls," the woman observed. I told her I knew that. Was it fixable?

Cellular silence

An ADN story on today's blizzard reports: "AT&T's cell phone network had problems across Anchorage this morning, and many users still had no cellular coverage by midafternoon, though it was not known if that issue was weather related. An AT&T spokeswoman working at home Wednesday could not be reached because her cell phone did not have service."

the wrong larry

A printing company printed Larry Craig's face on this Idaho Democrat button promoting Obama for president and Larry LaRocco for U.S. Senate. The brite ran on the front page. It made me giggle.