Last week I received an email, nothing unusual about it at all, it had an agenda for a meeting I was asked to attend attached yet there was a great point about this that I felt I should share. You see the email and even the attachment were nothing strange or to write about but the agenda had been produced using Microsoft Word 2007, again nothing unusual the interesting part came from the fact that I am using office 2003, trying to open the attachment brought up a request from Microsoft to download a reader extension so that my version of word could read the file. However trying to install the extension (twice) it crashed and would not complete. In the end I only had one way to read a file produced in Word for office 2008, I had to transfer the file across to another computer, not running a later version of office but a linux machine running open office. I just think there is a certain sense of irony in the idea that to read a file produced in a Microsoft package rather than reading it on the computer that uses all Microsoft software I have to read it on one running completely on competitors programmes. I love it!
Email this postNot PC world, that’s for sure!
A local minister came to see me the other day having problems with his laptop, it only had one USB port and it had stopped working. He went along to PC world who said it would have to be sent back to the manufacturer for a new motherboard at a cost of £200, for a laptop that had been brought 2 years ago second hand for £200 this seemed a little steep.
After a quick look at the machine and then hunt online we had a 4 part USB card that would work with his machine ordered for £8 including delivery. The crazy thing is PC world would have sold the same device, probably for a bit more cash but they could have made a sale and had a very happy customer, my guess is they were hoping with a quote of £200 he would look at buying a new PC, in the end they lost out completely! Want PC advice, avoid PC world!
Currently trying to develop a policy for using Social networking as a youth work tool, thinking about issues of the balance between meeting young people where they are and endorsing the use of particular networks, how much time? Can you measure the impact? I tend to work to a personal policy of I don’t add young people, I let them know I am there and will accept friendship invites from them but I don’t invite them myself. Do you have a policy? If so can I see a copy please, if you don’t but are working on similar things can we share ideas? If you weren’t even thinking about it but you’ve suddenly thought “if I were to produce some sort of policy I would include this” please share your ideas.
Many thanks
Simo
I think so anyway, it now seams to display ok, there was a particular post where things went wrong and it seems that because I tend to type my posts in a word processor then copy and paste, I had done that post on a different computer and software, it had copied some code that it put at the beginning of the post and messed things up. I had also been having problems as mentioned before with the theme keep changing to the default, I hope that was part of the same problem but only the next few days/weeks will tell on that front!
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On Monday this week I finally launched an updated version of the website I run for the Vale side of my work (although the look is only slightly different in the background everything is now run using php scripts and things which makes life much easier in the long run). I was really pleased with how it all turned out, I then downloaded a patch for Internet Explorer 7 and of course after installing it the web site didnt work! AAGGGRRR!!! So thank you Microsoft your patch has also broken my RSS reader, I can read the headlines etc but if I try to click through to the actual web site I just get an error message, this is the second time an MS patch has done this although last time it managed to mess up links in emails as well but they still work this time. What makes it even worse is that I only have IE on my computer for testing purposes so I dont even use it and it still manages to mess up my machine, I knew I should have brought a mac!
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