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Apple refuses to program for Adobe

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Posted in utilities, QuarkXPress, Gripes moans and whinges, Images, iPhone, Apple on April 25, 2010 at 2:57 pm

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It says in big friendly letters ‘Open Immediately’. I did. Slit into the envelope, had a quick look at the contents and put them back inside. After all, the prospective candidates hadn’t bothered to send me any pre-election crud so how do I know who to vote for? Read more

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‘Something’ in the way we work

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Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, Security, Apple on April 18, 2010 at 12:36 pm

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Week thirty-three of hell for a Mac user working in XP purgatory. The last seven days have been mainly trojan time, along with forgetting the Windows password on a seldom-used but important PC. Read more

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He, the usurper, must choose

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Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, utilities, Broadband, Internet, iPhone, Microsoft, Apple on February 14, 2010 at 2:00 pm

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Later this week two of us are driving a few hundred miles to HQ to be shown the new database which will be implemented on April Fools’ Day. A date which is inevitably going to be a joke when it’s something to do with new computers and software, all going live at the same time. Read more

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Canned Heat

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Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, utilities, Security, Microsoft, Apple, Uncategorized on January 17, 2010 at 4:37 pm

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Is there anything worse than the hypocrites who insist on organic, forgetting the food miles their Scottish salmon cost compared with the line-caught mackerel from the end of the road? Then drive the X5 a half mile to little Matthew and Jessica’s Steiner school and never take a bag with them to John Lewis. Read more

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Regional rip-offs

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Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, Internet, iPhone, Apple on November 19, 2009 at 7:06 pm

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It was a dark and stormy afternoon in the Languedoc’s Black Mountain last week, as we made our way further up the narrow and twisting road. At each hairpin bend the drop on my side of the car grew more precipitous with only a few of the local marble off-cuts to stop us going over the edge. As we drove higher, it got darker, rain clouds swirled around the Peugeot. We had no choice but to follow the signs to the peak because there was no-where to turn around. Read more

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Relevant eloquent pleading

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Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, Microsoft, Apple on October 31, 2009 at 4:22 pm

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A few weeks ago I took over the control of an ancient Dell and XP. For a Mac user from the days when PCs were still using the command line, this was a severe shock. Learning that 80% of the world’s computers are running XP made me almost cry in despair. Read more

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iPhoniness

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Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, Apple, Uncategorized on October 11, 2009 at 8:53 pm

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My heart isn’t in my work at the moment and it’s for two reasons. 1) Windows XP and 2) I’m not working from home. Read more

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Grrrr Growl

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Posted in utilities, Gripes moans and whinges, Apple on September 13, 2009 at 3:26 pm

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Why do people think that knowledge is always power? There are times when too much information is not good for you. Do you really want the answer to “How long have I got, Doc”? Read more

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Anti-Time

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Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, Microsoft, Apple, Uncategorized on July 26, 2009 at 6:06 pm

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Week 1 in new job. It appears that I was over-hasty in last week’s blog, thinking I couldn’t turn the Dell computer on. What had happened was  I had entered a zone of anti-time. Read more

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Hedging and Ditching

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Posted in Gripes moans and whinges on April 3, 2009 at 2:17 pm

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Darn it and @$%&£! Why didn’t we stop when it was ‘nearly there’? Sigh! Read more

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