Good morning Random :)


ewww 19 kbps.... id cry.

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And I read moments ago that Bill Gates's net worth went down 10 billion dollars. Must be nice to be able to shrug off a 10 billion dollar loss.

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I do that every morning!

Bahhh...another 10 billion dollar drop? That isn't worth my stopping and worrying about it!

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Small change, just small change.

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Ever read Microserfs by Douglas Coupland? I love that book...

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And what makes you think I didn't cry?

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XP is annoying. I have it at work, and I've managed to permanently break the 'Search for files or folders' function by trying to change it from the cute ickle doggie to some kind of sensible interface where I could search for my lost file based on the fact that I knew roughly what date I had worked on it...

Now it just keeps saying it's missing a file needed to run Search Companion, even after I got the IT guy to reinstall it. Clearly Microsoft cannot understand the mentality of a person who doesn't want her workspace cluttered up with animated characters.

Anyway, I hope you have a great holiday.

White Hart

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I loathe Microsoft and used to do everything I could to avoid its products - installed Netscape, Lotus Smartsuite, Real Player etc - but have recently more or less given up. I want to be able to use a computer as a tool, not have to struggle with putting together a system that works before I can start using it. With our old W95 machine being relatively stable since 1997, I had that. If XP is going to misbehave like yours did then maybe it's time to say "Bye Bye Bill" again...

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The problem with XP, as I see it, is that part of its objective was to improve 'user-friendliness', and that is aimed at the 90% of computer users who don't really know what they're doing. They can get into Excel, or their email, or online, but they have no idea of how the whole thing hangs together or where to look if something isn't doing quite what they want. And they think a cute little cat in the corner of their spreadsheet is sweet, rather than being just as annoying as a real cat in having an unfailing ability to be sat on the one piece of information you really need to use...

Hence the search facility where the only date criteria are 'modified today' 'modified in the last week', 'in the last month' or 'in the last year'. Which is about as useful as a hole in the head when I come along in the first week of February looking for a spreadsheet I worked on sometime between 15th and 18th December but now couldn't find (unfortunately I hadn't mislaid it as hoped, it was eaten by the servers, but that's irrelevent).

I have Windows ME at home and that's fine, just another step along the 95-98 route, but XP just comes across as being designed with a user in mind who sees their computer as a toy. Even if I'm using my computer for entertainment, I see it as a tool, and I feel that XP has ditched some of the functionality that made it an effective tool in favour of silly cartoon characters and decluttering the interface for people who aren't capable of tidying it up themselves...

White Hart

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Must admit, until I found where to change stuff like the start menu and Windows explorer back to W95-98-etc style, I couldn't make head nor tail of anything. It was like one big cartoon - I kept expecting Bob Hoskins to wonder onscreen looking baffled in search of Roger Rabbit.

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ahahaha, that was funny.

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...one small comment...

Roger Rabbit was BOMB! Man, I have to go buy that on DVD. Did they even remaster it on DVD? I'll find out!

Go with MACs! The ultimate machine!