New computers, and old computers, living together, sometimes in harmony. We have a few computers and not all are on the same frequency, if you know what I mean. 802.11b vs 802.11g and all that. My computer lives mostly in my office and is connected to the interwebs by a cable, but occasionally ventures upstairs to the kitchen table to hang out near the other computers. I also almost exclusively use a wired mouse as well even though my computer is a laptop. So imagine my surprise and shock while I was sitting at the kitchen table, typing away and my cursor starts moving around my screen, of it’s own accord. When it stopped I thought, that’s weird, and kept on going. Then it did it again, randomly moving about my screen, and then it closed a window, and brought something else to the front of the pile, ……WTF? I have no idea why this occurred to me but I looked over at ThingTwo who was using one of the other computers, the most recent one prior to mine, and she was using the BlueTooth mouse right next to it. As I watched, my cursor was moving in time with her hand and clicking movements. When I think about it that mouse was paired to my computer at one time, so it must have sensed it in the vicinity, and reconnected to it without me realising it.

I thought three things before I figured out what was going on.

1. Am I nuts? Did I just see that?

2. Is my machine about to die?

3. Is someone hacking into my machine?

I can exhale now, it was just the BlueTooth Fairy. Now, how do I turn that shit off.