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What was I doing ...
20 years ago? I was in sixth grade, boiling over with frustration at being a target for all the cool kids.
10 years ago? I was getting back into the groove with college, feeling out a new direction for my life.
5 years ago? I got a promotion, got accepted to law school, and got hit by a truck. In that approximate order.
3 years ago? Skating on the ragged edge of a nervous breakdown, trying to be an anchor to my family in their breakdown, working full-time, in law school full time.
1 year ago? Got laid off work, and this time last year was scrambling the brain trying to finish my final term paper. This was the paper they lost for two frelling months, by the way.
Yesterday? I was glad to be working, and more glad that it was Sunday and I didn't have to work.
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Mondays suck hard vacuum. I'm just sayin'.
Back to the grind. Still trying to figure out who's a crook in the Internet telephone biz. No time to wonder why I couldn't get Deus Ex to run on Moloch 2.0 last night, or that sort of thing. (Managed to get WordPerfect back up and running, though. And figured out one reason I like WP - if you use Reveal Codes, you're dealing with something that I suppose is quite a bit like HTML, with open and close tags. One of the things I frelling hate hate hate hate hate about MS Word is that you can't tell where the close-tag is for something like paragraphing or italics or font or something.)
Oh, and I ran across this on http://www.anchordesk.com - apparently Microsoft was charging customers in advance for an upgrade licensing program, so that they'd be able to pay the reduced rate for upgrade versions of things like Office? The release date for the new versions of various programs has slipped, it seems, and a lot of people are finding that their upgrade license is gonna expire before the new release date. So ... Microsoft charges a bundle up front, and on the back end, they deliver precisely gornischt.
I suppose they'll try to impugn their detractors' patriotism next.
Close entry.
What was I doing ...
20 years ago? I was in sixth grade, boiling over with frustration at being a target for all the cool kids.
10 years ago? I was getting back into the groove with college, feeling out a new direction for my life.
5 years ago? I got a promotion, got accepted to law school, and got hit by a truck. In that approximate order.
3 years ago? Skating on the ragged edge of a nervous breakdown, trying to be an anchor to my family in their breakdown, working full-time, in law school full time.
1 year ago? Got laid off work, and this time last year was scrambling the brain trying to finish my final term paper. This was the paper they lost for two frelling months, by the way.
Yesterday? I was glad to be working, and more glad that it was Sunday and I didn't have to work.
---
Mondays suck hard vacuum. I'm just sayin'.
Back to the grind. Still trying to figure out who's a crook in the Internet telephone biz. No time to wonder why I couldn't get Deus Ex to run on Moloch 2.0 last night, or that sort of thing. (Managed to get WordPerfect back up and running, though. And figured out one reason I like WP - if you use Reveal Codes, you're dealing with something that I suppose is quite a bit like HTML, with open and close tags. One of the things I frelling hate hate hate hate hate about MS Word is that you can't tell where the close-tag is for something like paragraphing or italics or font or something.)
Oh, and I ran across this on http://www.anchordesk.com - apparently Microsoft was charging customers in advance for an upgrade licensing program, so that they'd be able to pay the reduced rate for upgrade versions of things like Office? The release date for the new versions of various programs has slipped, it seems, and a lot of people are finding that their upgrade license is gonna expire before the new release date. So ... Microsoft charges a bundle up front, and on the back end, they deliver precisely gornischt.
I suppose they'll try to impugn their detractors' patriotism next.
Close entry.
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Date: 2003-04-28 02:22 pm (UTC)Oh, yeah! I started out on WP pre-Windows and loved it. The inability to reveal codes has *always* driven me nuts in Word. I miss WP a lot (but considering every job I have insists on Word, I don't get to use it).
I've always credited WP and reveal-codes with making me a natural at hand-coded HTML when it appeared, though. :)
Fellow WordPerfect freak!
Date: 2003-04-28 03:13 pm (UTC)Matter of fact, when the Powers that Were decided that the entire office was going to go to Microsoft stuff exclusively, and that WP would be removed from all office machines ... I protested. Bitterly. Not just that I preferred WP, but that going to Word like that would drive my productivity into the toilet. I think I told 'em that the job of the IT Department (aka The Computer Cop) wasn't to decide what tols I could and couldn't use, it was to make sure that I could use the tools I needed to do my job, and that the Bosses' job was to provide the grunts on the front line with the tools they needed. (Like the poor sods that got sent into Iraq. Imagine if they'd been issued staple guns instead of rifles?)
I argued the point rather strenuously. They didn't take WP off my machine.
Of course, they laid me off not long after, so I can't say I won that one...