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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

My USB plug breakthrough

Maybe I should have gone through a training course the first time I encountered a USB plug.

I'd like to confess to a recent discovery. For years, I have struggled every time I try to plug in a USB accessory to the panel on the front of my computer. It's been a fairly simple struggle. Half the time I would guess right and have the plug lined up the right way and it would connect the first time. The other half of the time I would be holding it upside down and it wouldn't fit.

I'm a little embarrased to admit that I only recently realized that they always print the little tree-shaped USB symbol on the top of the plug.

I'm so much better at plugging things in now. (You'd think I'd be up to a 100 percent success rate, but it's more like 95 percent. Still a bit improvement.)

Labels: computer, upside down, USB plug

2 Comments:

jeffk said...: It took me far too long to figure that out too. Remember the older round connectors that had a bunch of pins and a single flat prong, so you had to line up the port and twist it until it hopefully popped into place? Those things were enough to drive a man back to pen and paper.; February 25, 2009 10:21 PM
Pat's Papers said...: I'm usually a little more tech-savvy. Like when I moved to New York in 1996 and quickly figured out that there was no sense trying to hail a taxi that didn't have its medallion number lit up. (The light goes out when the driver has the meter turned on for a passenger.) I actually had the chance to explain that to a life-long New Yorker at one point a few months later.; February 28, 2009 11:00 PM


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My USB plug breakthrough

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