Sunday, October 28, 2018

SIM Cards


SIM Cards

Most sensitive port once one removes a back cover of a cellphone is the SIM port.

Its design leaves no margin of error.

One needs (finger nails are not strong enough) delicate manipulation.

One who used to do cut down on neonates in Ceylon (before fine needles came into existence) could not master it in my twilight years.

Even, the Telecoms guy (half my age) could not do it in my presence.

He had to go inside and get some help from one who was adept at fine instruments (my first SIM, relatively big compared to ones that are in use today; It was a highly manipulative skill or act).

I have now mastered it with the help of a safety pin, that ladies use.

Certainly a pin won’t be of help but a opened up safety clip would.

These things are now technically called life hacks.

My current problem is not manipulation but vision which is getting dull, day by day.

After effect is lot of Typos and my early retirement from digital work.

I am still adept at NOT touch typing but the age old K.(o), K.(o) System (where is the key syndrome, the misplaced key) with the typewriter; The vision come secondary.

I am very bad at keys (car key syndrome).

There is a simple computer remedy.

Increase the font size to your needs.

One does not have to be a “techy’ but improvise simple common sense solution.

The bottom line is one gets a new cellphone get a guy (not on the counter, counter guys are not techys but tricksters par excellence -hoodwink you in seconds-who sell cheap stuff to gullible and stupid customers!) to install it.

Do not try to reinstall it but ask for downloads which go cheap by Rs.100/= and you have to wait over the counter which I hate. 
That is why I say do not have a cellphone but a land phone.

Thank you Bank of Ceylon and Banking Officers


Thank you Bank of Ceylon and Banking Officers

It took over one year for the Bank of Ceylon, Kandy to home in with the fraudulent guy who tried to cash in a cheque forwarded to me from abroad.

Fortunately, I did not have an account and the signature card there.

They rejected the cheque forged by the guy who tried to cash it.

It took over one year for the principal in USA to let me know of the outcome.

This is where I reject the mobile and digital banking.
I knew of a famous Union guy in Sheffield who in a matter of 24 hours got hold of the union money and disappeared into South America, (probably).

The money was transferred digitally in seconds.

So I rejected the offer of digital banking in 1980s and still do.

If the above money was transferred by digital means there was no way of tracing the tracks.

The digital outlets are good and convenient but without a human touch and investigation (simply checking the signature and the National ID) one cannot catch a thief.

The officer who checked the counter signature did know that it was forged.

Mind you after I stopped drinking my signature is still neat and cute.

No shaking fingers or hands.