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Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)...
Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...
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Monday, May 13, 2002 |
 There's nothing like a beer and a few plates of yakiniku after a day of computer stress. Especially when the weather's so early-summer-warm.
There's also something pretty good about being able to send comments like this direct to the weblog from a mobile phone.
I love technology!
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One of the benefits of having a non-functioning computer for most of the day is the freedom to surf the net (on the absolutely functioning Mac). Anyway, I rediscovered a few of my old favourites, and this site ranks amongst the best. I especially like the section on pieces of conversation that sound like the titles to Country and Western songs- some of them really should be in a section with a warning that they shouldn't be read at work or anywhere where loug guffaws might be inappropriate. For example (and I quote),
"She's Turning into More of a Person and Less of a Chihuahua"
There's not really much that can be said about this. The quotation more than speaks for itself!
The really scary thing is, though, is that all the quotations that come up in this section actually could be in Country and Western songs without too much imagination at all...
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One more Google item (the extent of my excitement at being listed in a
web search says a very great deal indeed about the level of thrills
available on this island...).
I searched for 'Washibe' again, and, yes (yes!), this weblog is
still top of the search. But drop down into the second page, and what
should come up but... the Free Online Swahili New Testament!
Anyway, I thoroughly recommend visiting their page (we 'Washibe'
entrants have to stick together, after all).
And I trust they'll be
doing the same for this page, too.
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I spoke too soon.
The fonts problem still isn't fixed. I've got about twenty fonts. (Deep
breath... long scream...)
Something tells me that I should just let this go for today. Or forever.
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Well, it looks finally like I have a working PC again (insofar as
Windows can ever be said to work). And all it took was six hours. So it
looks like I got off lightly, then...
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Still the saga continues. The damn computer- having been restarted about
4000 times- is now reporting that it's installed 63% of Windows. So,
presumably, only another 35% until it brings up an error message and
decides that it doesn't want to cooperate after all.
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Google doesn't work just with 'weekend'. Not yet, anyway.
Oh well,
can't have everything, I suppose...
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Quick Google update. The search also works just with 'Washibe'.
Great!
What would be really good would be if it came up first even under
a search for 'weekend'!
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A great start to the week.
My computer at work has been losing fonts (yes, it is a Windows
computer) for several weeks now, but I got to work this morning to find
it had all of... three. (Especially interesting was the fact that Times
New Roman was shown as a Hallowe'en font with blood dripping from the
letters, but that's beside the point...)
Anyway, I decided if I reinstalled Office that things would be fine.
They might well have been, except that (of course) Office wouldn't
install. It told me it needed a certain CD-ROM, and, after I turned the
office upside down to find the disc and inserted it as ordered, it
decided it no longer had a CD-ROM drive.
Resisting the urge at this point to throw the computer out of the window
(along with the idiot who is supposed to look after the computers, but
who just sat there smirking), I took a deep breath and decided that I'd
need to reinstall Windows- which of course means reinstalling
everything from scratch. At the minute I'm just backing
everything up in preparation, and cursing the day I ever set eyes on
this PC. At least I have a Mac in the office as well...
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