h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just noticed you online - while the brews & I'll have to start doing something. I mean, something like what I do for a living...

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Top of the morning to you too! A visitor! What an honor.
Then the next obvious question is: What do you do for a living? Can I ask about that?

Yes, you can.

Thought the above was maybe a little too unfair? I'm in sales & marketing - in a wee Danish company (at least in relation to our competitors out there in the big world) in the (biotech) laboratory business...

Good fun, mostly - - working with distributors more or less all over the world in terms of sales, doing marketing work (printed stuff, web etc) on me own as well as with agencies..

I'm in a wee company too, though Norwegian, and in the software/documentation/pedagogical business. I'm starting to get the hang of the accounting, after a couple of years of self-tutoring.

So, there, we're formally introdused!

Right now I'm sitting here, listening to the radio, (the channel with the least amount of news, and most music and babble...the news are so depressing these days.) and waiting for lunchtime! My old NT4 monster is akting -er than usual and programs keep crashing at the oddest moments. So I've sent e-mails in all directions requesting support. Quite boring, though I do have more time to hootoo..

Hmmm, I'm no stranger to the ing PCs acting . Ever since having Win2K it's been a lot better - but I reckon MS builds small routines into it ti keep you on your toes Like rebooting when you try to print... That, I find annoying

Accounting? Have you ever seen the Monthy Python text on accounting?

*fires off another IE session & goes look*

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Gotcha - check your mail in a little while...

The accountancy Shany, you mean?
It's fun to charter an accountant, And sail the wide accountancy,
To find, explore the funds offshore, And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
It can be manly in insurance. We'll up your premium semi-annually.
It's all tax-deductible. We're fairly incorruptible. We're sailing on the wide accountancy

Fairly incorruptible .... ?

Symlpost. IT should say Shanty, not shany...
I guess it will be [eaten by the m*ds]anyway..

You never know - I still haven't quite gotten the hang of their patterns... (take post 652 over at the NRC as an example... )

*ooh,feels daring pointing to "such things" *

Oooo! Daring!

Blast! Another crash, another re-install.
You'll have to excuse me while I turn on and off the machine, walk around in a tight circle, stomp my feet, while swearing and cursing a bit. I may have to bring some blood-offer as well, this time.

*Uggha-bugga, uggha-bugga*

*pictures BBee doing the uggha-bugga thing while stomping in small circles*

Try picture B. trying to sacrifice a piece of bread with liver-paté to the PC because she hates to prick her finger for to bring forth some blood...

"Oh, come on, you'll love this! Just give it a try!"

*Crash*
*Reboot*

Oh, dear - I'll call a and a right away..!

What do you think of a telephone-support that tells you "she'll call back.."?! (g*d, I'm gullable..!)

Well - did she? And did you tell about the liver-paté bit?

BTW - and I'm _not_ trying to insinuate anything here, honest! - have you heard about an "Error 40"...?

That's the number of cms in front of the monitor you find the reason for quite many errors (having, in fact made one m'self today)...

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Or (if you didn't spot it in the 'URLs now allowed' thread:
[Broken Link Removed by Moderator]

(had me ing for a while!)

Yeah, I know that one!

I think 'error 40' is also called "wetwear-problems"....
In this case the wetwear is my boss who can't understand that I need bigger and better hardwear! It doesn't help that there's plenty of space on the D: drive when every program I have to use insists on using the C: drive! Aaargh!
*Stomp, stomp, stomp*

Ahem, sorry about that...

Reminds me about a Microsoft quote I heard on speech recognition sw: "Users have been talking to their computers for ages - now wer'e trying to make them understand it" (or words to that effect)...

Talking? Personally, I have been know to shout and swear...