Thursday, 9 July 2026

THE LOW SPARK OF ...

 It's a dreary and cold day today with a strong chance of rain so I'm not expecting much news from the blogs.

Robert (or his AI friends) however, wrote a bleak post that's fitting with the weather or in keeping with ancient stoicism or early Christian martyrdom - that I guess continues his religious theme.

I'm not sure what Richard will be doing other than fiddling about with his old instruments. Maybe he'll go and get a haircut.

"I got a haircut today"

I cannot get emails on my ipad or my iPhone so will visit a Spark store today to try and get it sorted. The problem started last week when a message from Spark (received on this computer which is now the only way I can communicate) told me that they had switched over to 4G technology and older 3G and 2G compatible devices would no longer receive emails. As I pay a lot of money to Spark for my mobile (our broadband account is with One NZ) I want them to sort it out. The phone is near new so I don't know why that isn't operating properly but the iPad is old generation so no doubt I'll have to buy a new one - certainly before we go to Australia next month.

Sure Robert, I know that I should be able to receive emails on the ipad using Broadband but it isn't happening. I need Spark to explain themselves.




5 comments:

Richard (of RBB) said...

You certainly know how to make things interesting.

That's just me being nice.

THE CURMUDGEON said...

I like your hair style. It suits you.

Rob said...

Well that was uplifting. We gave Spark (alias Telecom) the thumbs down about ten years ago and moved to two degrees. I'm sure there are better ones too. Two two was a race horse, one one was one too...

THE CURMUDGEON said...

I went to Queensgate mall Spark shop today and a very helpful young woman spent half an hour sorting out my phone and iPad email settings
They are working well now and I don’t have to buy a new iPad
If I have any more problems I’ll go back there and ask for her to help me
Obviously as the exercise should have taken 5 minutes she liked my company and will be excited to see me again.😘

Rob said...

Obviously!