By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2008 at 10:45 am
Blimey! Go away for a week and the world goes to pot. Not in a mind-expandingly sort of way but it certainly changed direction while we were out of touch. And the weather is blinking cold as well. We left in t-shirts to soak up some rays in Gormenghast-meets-Middle-Earth-France and returned to start shivering.
Turn our Macs on and a week’s worth of system upgrades stream in as thick and fast as the new varieties of junk mail. The latter arriving in thousands because we weren’t here to teach our mail filters to reject them.
How to get free software
The same thing happens as soon as we fire up applications. They too have all been tweaked as if the programmers across the world decided to make changes during the week we were away. As well as sending us invitations to beta test new versions. We usually accept these because it means we get free software and with Unix underpinnings, the betas are stable enough for mainstream work.
Not only has China been into space and back in the last week but Adobe released version 4 of their CS suite. Not that the two are connected but it’s a good bet that the Chinese went without a hitch and CS4 will be full of holes. Plus they both cost around the same highly inflated price. So far we haven’t read anything with good to say about CS4.
Wall Street War
America has declared war on Wall Street after years of hands-off and waiting for the wealth to trickle down in the Thatcherite-dream-state politicians both sides of the Atlantic occupied for the last eight years. It’s about time something was done about the bonus culture in the world’s stock markets, because currently it positively encourages short-selling and bad-mouthing firms to get stock prices down.
Talking of war, the one we have been waiting for still hasn’t arrived. That is Call of Duty 4 for the Mac whose issue date is as nebulous as Lehman Brothers’ finances. So it’s back to work but without the bang we were expecting.
But before we do that, we’ll just log onto Welcome Cottages and book a little break before all our duty-free’s run out. Better make it end of next week the way things are going.
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