Diary: February 2007
Yesterday I ordered Office, and realised that the new Cheltenham address may make my credit card company whine, as my other new addresses have in the past.
Eager to avoid any delays, I rang them up, told them that I was ordering something expensive off the internet and having it delivered to a different address to normal. I was then put through to another local call centre to give them a temporary address, this time in India. The nice lady I spoke to was very polite, it's just that she didn't understand anything that I said. She asked ...
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I finished installing Office 2007 about 15 minutes ago, and have loaded up most of the programs and had a fiddle. Everything seems very shiny, and even the ribbon seems like a good idea, so far.
But what impressed me most was that I have already managed to crash Publisher. All I tried to do was to import an image.
True, Publisher has always been the poor relative of the Office suite, and every release merely brings it up to the level you'd have expected it to be at in the previous release. Still, it seems a shame that ...
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Last night was Leela's first on-call, and everything went fine. Until 11.30, when she was just off to bed - the phone rang, and they wanted a drug. She went in, and despite their records saying they had plenty, they didn't have it in stock, and they didn't have it anywhere else in the hospital. So she had to ring Gloucester and get them to send it over in a taxi. At midnight. Baptism of fire!
And today was my first trip to the garage. I took the car in at 8.15 this morning, and they ...
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So, I just gave my car a little test drive over to Sainsburys (10-15 minutes), and it stalled 5 times. Twice without even moving the length of the car. Looks like I'll be booking it into the garage again then...
And before anyone accuses me of my driving style, this is sitting in traffic in neutral, with handbrake on, clutch fully depressed (like me) and my foot off the accelerator.
Am now very tempted to just drive it to the scrap yard and pay them to 'fix' it... ;)
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Hot on the heels of that petition against road pricing, there is now a petition for it. Yes, that's right, there's a petition for road pricing, and it even has signatures. But they won't be getting mine, and I won't be linking to it either.
I probably stand to gain from a road pricing scheme, as most of my miles are off-peak, on little quiet roads and empty motorways, but I'm still against it. It's the big brother principle of being tracked, and not knowing how much your journey is going to cost. Or ...
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