When computers don't work

Technology is great as long as it works as expected. If it doesn't it can get on your nerves and make you wish computers were never invented. I had a few instances this weekend where I was a little frustrated with some interfaces I used.

One thing that always gives me trouble is logging into my blogspot account. If I click on log in, it takes me to blogger.com, which is the mother site to blogspot, but still not the site I was on. It always prefills in the username with one of my other google accounts (which may be my browsers fault actually). Because I use both accounts for websites, I got confused and though thats what I used for my username. It said log in with your google account, so I wasn't sure if the password would be the same as my google account or not... so it took a while to get logged in, to say the least.

Another problem I had was at the airport using Delta's check in computer interface. I kept trying to scan the barcode on my itinerary but it wouldn't detect it. So then I had to use the touch screen to key in my confirmation code.

The last thing I will complain about was the toll road. Instead of having a person work there 24 hours, the toll at Notre Dame now has an automated pay station where you insert your ticket and money to pay. However, it would not read my ticket to tell me how much I needed to pay. Luckily, after inserting it 10 times, it detected it. Thankfully I didn't have to spend the night there.

These interfaces frustrated me this weekend, but I think I'll stay in the computer science department.