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Entries from August 19th, 2008

Games People Play

August 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life

Greatly enjoying the Olympics, and slightly resenting having to return to work and miss all the live coverage.  What a welcome change it is to be able to look at the results and not be embarrased about the GB performance.  The first Olympics I can even vaguely remember was Mexico in 1968 where we got […]

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Working Man

August 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life

Why is it that anybody whose work involves computers in any way whatsoever is always described in the media as a “computer expert”?

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Let’s Go Round Again

August 19th, 2008 · Comments Off on Let’s Go Round Again · Technology

I returned home from work today to find that Chrystal’s laptop had got it’s knickers in a twist and it was stuck in an endless loop of trying to configure updates to Vista.  I looked into it and discovered that Microsoft has greatly expanded its repertoir of frustrating messages since Windows XP.

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