Is Mercury in the microwave again?

Have you experienced any technical issues lately? Either with your computers, cell phones, TVs? Between Microsoft’s BSOD, “blue screen of death,” and the sun flares, causing Earth’s geomagnetic storms, both are greatly affecting the world of communication. I am thinking maybe the sun and Microsoft should take a little hiatus to “catch their breath.”

I don’t believe the geomagnetic storms are the culprit for Microsoft’s Blue Screen of Death, but maybe it could have made a difference in the communication of the technical or human kind.

The epic failure and global outage that Microsoft encountered was due to a bug in Crowd-Strikes cloud-based testing system for Falcon (their signature cybersecurity software). CNN stated that “a file that helps Crowd-Strike’s security platform look for signs of malicious hacking on customer devices,” which “runs validation checks on new updates prior to release — ended up allowing the software to be pushed out ‘despite containing problematic content data.’” With all of that people started seeing the coined phrase “Blue Screen of Death.”

So you ask how these two distinctly different categories connect, perhaps? With what I have covered previously on geomagnetic storms in my Aug. 3, 2022 column, “Solar Storms Have Some Flair,” I explained the outcome of a larger solar flare could disrupt our technological life here on earth. Satellites, including our global position systems, which affect our cellphones and location based applications, etc. This is just one example of a large entity that affects us all on a smaller scale and in so many different ways. The storms could account as to why there was some major snafu’s in the communication in the code base for Falcon software and Crowd-Strike in totality. I understand that I could be grasping at very small straws here but is this not a column to bring your mind alive and think in a different headspace?

To bring your awareness of the ‘lighter’ side of solar storms, how many of you had a chance to enjoy the Aurora Borealis this past weekend and early week? There are some good things that come from the magnetic field being “played” with. How I explained it in my prior column, the slight compression causes “the particles to travel down the magnetic-field lines near the poles, which agitate the molecules, causing the vibrations to turn into energy and light which we can see with our naked eye.” When you are having some communication issues you can take a moment to either chalk it up to our universe being unpredictable or take it personally. If it were me, I would pick the universal theory that I am simply responding to the geomagnetic fluctuations of the universal laws around me.

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SAMANTHA Y OCIUS CREATIVE MEDIA