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Friday, July 19, 2024

Finding refuge during a global tech meltdown

It depends where you focus...
London, ON
July 2024
This photo originally shared on Instagram


It isn’t every day you wake up to a global technology outage that’s affecting everything from banks to government agencies to airlines.

While the massive event - touched off by a bad software update from CrowdStrike that caused machines running Microsoft Windows to crash - isn’t, thankfully, a cyberattack, the impact is nevertheless significant. Travellers are lined up at airports and border crossings, paycheques aren’t being paid, and hospital patients aren’t being treated. If that website or app you signed into this morning isn’t working, this is why.

It kind of reminds me of this scene I captured the other day at a dreary intersection in a dreary corner of town. Cracked, ground down, run over, depressing.

Yet I keep coming back to it. Why is that?

I guess it’s because the world is a challenging place, and a few minutes with a camera, where I do nothing more than play with light and visions and settings, is often all I need to cope with the craziness.

Every moment has a backstory. This is mine.

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