I’m not going to get in to the details as to what I was doing but I will give you a quick recap.
I was going through parts of the Fedral Government website in the Business section or whatever it might be called looking for information on starting a business. The thing that drives me nuts about the government site is all the linking. You read one article which links to 10 other articles and each of those links to another 10 and so on. Call me stupid or challenged but that is confusing. I hate being directed around in circles by big websites. Did I find what I was looking for, No.
The next little issue that was pushing me over the edge was a form I was filling out online on the Government site. The form was for a business number but it seemed to be taking forever to respond to the server it was pulling and sending the information to. On top of me becoming impatient so was my computer because it started to freak out. It all of a sudden started to get glitchy and freeze up for 2 or 3 seconds at a time. At that point the fan was spinning at worp speed and sounded horrible. Then as if the computer said that’s it I have had enough and flicked an internal off switch, it dropped the Wireless connection and froze up. I was so mad I actually said “I want to throw you(my macbook) at the government” whatever that means.
I did not throw the computer. I did although let it cool down while I did the same. I then plugged it in and all was good again except I did not go back to the Government site. I didn’t think I will worry about it for now.
That was how 5 minutes of my evening went, how did yours go?
There’s a reason for all those cartoons of people throwing their computers out the window!
I’ve had a couple of my own businesses in my lifetime so if I can help, let me know. Depending on what your business is, you don’t usually need a whole lot of forms from the Gov’t.
Re: the “hanging” of your computer – bear in mind that could be a function of your service provider, not necessarily the Gov’t server.
Hope you have better success today (or whenever you pick it back up again). Big hat tip on starting your own business; wish I’d done it my sooner than I did.