Techno Babble!

Have you ever 'Googled' your name?

I bet you have!!

And have you also been amazed by just how many people have the same name as you? And interestingly enough, in my case, the same occupation! (Although I am retired now, phew). I know that there is another Pauline Hollis who is a teacher, and several other Pauline Hollis's dotted around the world. It gives you a bit of a jolt to read about someone with the same name, especially if they had a 'past' so to speak! And are dead.

I recently required (AKA given, xxxxxx kisses there) an amazing new phone. I say phone, but it does everything except make the tea and I am still learning how to use it!! There are a lot of extra things on it that quite frankly scare me and I am terrified that I am going to open something in error. My fingers are big and chunky (my dad used to call them 'capable') and they keep touching the wrong letters when I whatsapp people, so instead of writing 'I went shopping', it ends up something like 'o wrmy sjipponf'. And because I am doing all this as fast as I can to prove a point, I get to the end of the message and can't read half of it. If I am feeling generous I delete and start again, if not.....off it goes.  Just as well my family can translate my ramblings!

Beautiful!

And it googles too.


Here is one fascinating fact about my phone. When I use the 'google app', the little 'box' comes up with the words 'say google' and a picture of a microphone. So the other day I was idly fiddling around and I decided to try it out! I spoke to it and said Rob's name. Lo and behold a whole page opened and there half way down was my Rob, the right one, the Tourist Guide one with his website. I was really impressed, so decided to ask about me!

So I pronounced 'Pauline Hollis' very clearly to my phone and waited to see. And up came, not my name sadly, but the words 'paul im homeless' with a list of things to do or places to contact if you are homeless. That obviously was wrong, so I tried again. This time it came up with 'cool im homeless' with the same list of places and ideas! Now, I speak very clearly and do not mumble, so I tried a third time and I got 'pulling harness' with adverts for dog harnesses and canine equipment! The next time I got '49s' which is an Irish Lottery company!! Then I got 'paul in horses' listing trainers, horse behaviour experts, horses for sale, horse jumping trainers and everything to do with horses! (It did come up with 'porn in alice' but it self-deleted before I could open it!!)

And then I gave up!

I really love my phone, but I need to make it listen to me more carefully!