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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
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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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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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've started using my PDA a lot more recently - last week I found new drivers for my CF wifi card, so I've installed a decent browser and have started using it all over the flat. I've started using the to do list and calendar again too; I remember I tired of it last time, but I think the benefits will outweigh the 'No, I wrote 1, not I' moments. I've also put a new SD card in - £6 for 1GB? I remember when I had to pay £400 for 120MB of storage. Bah, when I was ...
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Just seen the latest version of the Google image search. Looks like even Google gets some things wrong from time to time:
The little popup box blocks the 'Next' button. I know I can scroll out of the box and it will disappear, but there's no delay before it opens; skipping to the bottom to click on 'Next' means I have to be careful, or I end up going somewhere I didn't mean to.
Not the biggest mistake I've ever seen, but I somehow expected better from Google, inventors of the perpetual beta.
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