Post by accykeef on Aug 4, 2013 16:32:11 GMT
The day job is mostly technology based and usually involves sitting in front of a computer creating marvellous solutions to everyday problems. I really enjoy doing what I do and the main constraint, the lack time of time, is always present but I don't let deadlines get me down. I have developed the attitude that the end result is worth waiting for, although I am quite happy to put in some late nights if the situation demands it.
However
A far more serious constraint has started to raise it's ugly head and that is one of technology designed by people who really should be doing something else for a living. I am seeing new ideas being wheeled out to an unsuspecting public in the disguise of 'Things you can't do without'. Most of these things are designed by people with no experience of anything - especially life so as long as they have pretty graphics, the rest doesn't matter.
We have Facebook, where strangers share the most intimate parts of their lives with other strangers. There is also Twitter, where people Tweet every time they eat, breath, break wind or catch a bus.
Each to their own, if that is what they want to do then so be it but I do not need to know, each time you change your online profile!!!!! I don't do Facebook or Twitter, I do have a Facebook account but not in my own name and it never gets anything added to it and it will never be advertised here. I have it for a use and that use is not for inane chatter.
Enough of this mindless ranting and on with the purpose of this post.
Let me take you back a few weeks, in the hectic world of the Keefs. We returned from holiday and had a lot of work to do, as an aside, my main work computer started acting up before we went away and soon after, The Reluctant Hiker's (one of the young uns) machine was fighting a losing battle against failure. I had taken my computer into the local computer doctors for some TLC while we were away and expected it to be fighting fit when I returned. Nothing of the sort and after nearly 3 weeks, the guy at the shop didn't even know what he had done to it - will not be going back there , which is a shame because his partner is a really helpful bloke.
What to do ?? It was decided in committee that we would get 2 new machines from a shop in Lancaster - no not PC World - wouldn't touch them with a barge pole. New machines are supplied with the new fangled Windows 8, designed by those designers I mentioned earlier, the ones who should be doing something else for a living.
Rather than telling you ther rest of it - let me take you to a thread on a technical website I frequent - don't be frightened, it is in plain English. Don't be fooled by some of the people's attitudes, as if you look around the site linked below, you will see that their first impressions were no disimilar to mine.
www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1715803
Do you have any experience of Windows 8 and that Mickey Mouse Metro Screen?
However
A far more serious constraint has started to raise it's ugly head and that is one of technology designed by people who really should be doing something else for a living. I am seeing new ideas being wheeled out to an unsuspecting public in the disguise of 'Things you can't do without'. Most of these things are designed by people with no experience of anything - especially life so as long as they have pretty graphics, the rest doesn't matter.
We have Facebook, where strangers share the most intimate parts of their lives with other strangers. There is also Twitter, where people Tweet every time they eat, breath, break wind or catch a bus.
Each to their own, if that is what they want to do then so be it but I do not need to know, each time you change your online profile!!!!! I don't do Facebook or Twitter, I do have a Facebook account but not in my own name and it never gets anything added to it and it will never be advertised here. I have it for a use and that use is not for inane chatter.
Enough of this mindless ranting and on with the purpose of this post.
Let me take you back a few weeks, in the hectic world of the Keefs. We returned from holiday and had a lot of work to do, as an aside, my main work computer started acting up before we went away and soon after, The Reluctant Hiker's (one of the young uns) machine was fighting a losing battle against failure. I had taken my computer into the local computer doctors for some TLC while we were away and expected it to be fighting fit when I returned. Nothing of the sort and after nearly 3 weeks, the guy at the shop didn't even know what he had done to it - will not be going back there , which is a shame because his partner is a really helpful bloke.
What to do ?? It was decided in committee that we would get 2 new machines from a shop in Lancaster - no not PC World - wouldn't touch them with a barge pole. New machines are supplied with the new fangled Windows 8, designed by those designers I mentioned earlier, the ones who should be doing something else for a living.
Rather than telling you ther rest of it - let me take you to a thread on a technical website I frequent - don't be frightened, it is in plain English. Don't be fooled by some of the people's attitudes, as if you look around the site linked below, you will see that their first impressions were no disimilar to mine.
www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1715803
Do you have any experience of Windows 8 and that Mickey Mouse Metro Screen?
I had been telling my hubby about the time I was in Morecombe when the Moby Dick and Hotel was hit by lightening and burnt down. My parents, sister and myself had just come off the Moby Dick when lightening stuck