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On the Broad Gauge

Life from the West Sunshine State with a transport bent

Monday, June 05, 2006

Unuseable technology

The other day I was at a fast food establishment in lower North Perth. Next appointment for the day was to drop in at a Medicare office. Problem was I couldn't remember where they were. I should have just rung directory assistance, but I thought I might give the Internet on my new whizz-bang 3g mobile phone a go.

So I click the internet button and from the Bigpond mobile home page select "Sensis" (which made a big hoo-haa when launched a while ago about being the 'local ' search engine). I type "Medicare" in the search box and click find. In a moment, it tells me that there is no match for "Medicare" in West Perth. Well yes, but where in the Perth Metro Area is there one? I clicked 'change location' and while it told me that I was at 150 Charles Street, West Perth (was I? I'm not sure) I could not for the life of me work out how to change the location. Bah! At 45cents for 30 seconds, or whatever this is costing me, I can't be bothered. More unusable technology.

Does this make me a luddite?

1 Comments:

At 5:30 PM, Blogger Peter Parker said...

Was there a chemist or doctors surgery nearby? They'd know for sure.

Women seem to approach these problems differently to us. We'll get a map (or fiddle with the phone). They'll just ask someone.

In this case, the ladies win.

 

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