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Microsoft Misery

Yesterday my youngest son wanted to play on the computer.  He’s played on his grandfather’s computer so even though he’s just 4 he’s quite an expert at pointing, clicking and moving objects around with both a mouse and arrow keys.  So I was quite happy to find the PC games that his older brother had played when he was about the same age, and try to load them onto my laptop so he could play.  Unfortunately things didn’t go quite according to plan thanks to the “advances” in new technology.

See my laptop was new last year.  It runs on Windows Vista and for the most part I love it – Vista and the new Office package sometimes takes more time than I’d like but eventually I’ll familiarize myself with the new features and locate the old ones!   Yesterday however it failed to shine, and completely let me down, you see the PC games were to run on Windows 95, and my laptop shunned them.   Upon recognizing that a CD was in the computer, it opened up an image that made me feel secure that it was going to load, but unfortunately when I clicked to instruct the game to install, there was no response.  This happened with 3 different games that were to run on Windows platforms lower than XP never mind Vista.

Now I’m all for modern technology.  I love gadgets and gizmos as much, if not more than, the next person.  But it seems to me that if a company is going to upgrade its technology, it shouldn’t do so in a way that means its original products are obsolete.  Most upgrades mean that you can still use earlier formats, you just can’t use the upgraded formats on the lower grades.  It makes little sense to me that these obviously lower tech games are unable to install on an up-to-date platform.

I’ve always loved Microsoft.  I don’t care if they’ve got a monopoly or otherwise.  I don’t care how much profit they make.   As long as they keep providing me with laptop software that makes my life easier, that’s fine with me.  What’s not fine however is having to disappoint a 4 year old because someone at Microsoft wants to make more money by ensuring parents have to buy updated games by preventing the earlier released games to install on the newer platforms. 

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5 Signs Your Boss Has Been Procrastinating

Everyone procrastinates, but unfortunately when you’re in an office, there’s usually someone above you that’s also procrastinating and sooner or later you’re the one that’s going to have to pay for their lack of initial enthusiasm on the project.  Here are 5 signs that the rush deadline now on your calendar is the result of boss procrastination:

1.       The project is delivered when you’re not there.  You arrive back at your desk from lunch and it’s mysteriously been placed in your in-tray.  It’s not uncommon for it to even materialize from under other papers that have been in your tray for a few days, but you can stop wondering if you’re going mad, it’s just a ploy that the boss uses to try and make you think that you’re responsible for the fact you’re now going to be working overtime for the next 3 days in order to get this complete on time.

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Time Flies – Whether You’re Having Fun or Not!

Where does the time go?  I was out shopping yesterday and all around were signs of Christmas.  OK so the streets haven’t got around to hanging up their pretty lights yet, and the shops aren’t playing the familiar Christmas songs, but you can tell that it’s not going to be long before they do.  I don’t feel ready for Christmas just yet – but having been forced to think about it, there aren’t that many weeks left.  How is this possible?

This should be the après-vacation period, the time when we look back fondly about spending time at the beach (once we managed to get out of the motorway tailbacks), and polishing up the remainder of our suntan, but apparently there’s no time for that anymore!  Time is going so fast that it really feels as if you should bring down the boxes of Christmas decorations when you are putting away the suitcases you used on your summer holiday. 

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Ten Ways Not to Replace the Print Cartridge in the Photocopying Machine

Ten Ways Not to Replace the Print Cartridge in the Photocopying Machine

It’s one of those jobs that anyone could do, somebody has to do it, but nobody wants to do it.   Here are 10 ways of avoiding the task next time you’re at the machine when the dreaded red light flashes:

1.       “There’s a light flashing and I don’t know what it’s for.  Can you take a look at it?  I’d come with you and learn but unfortunately I’ve got a train to catch and you know how it is, these trains wait for no-one!  Thanks so much, I owe you one!”  

2.       “Can anyone show me where the stuff is that goes in the thingy?  I’m happy to have a go and do it myself, it can’t be that difficult.  There’s pictures right?  And it’s on a maintenance contract?”

3.       “Is there a bottle of ink anywhere?  A light is telling me to replace the ink cartridge.  I can’t see any ink and I don’t see where to pour it in.”

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