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System Crashes
Posted Sep 10, 1999
I would hazard a guess that I am about to launch into a topic which is close to just about every reader's heart. System Crashes. Those times when your PC decides it will stop being a wonder of technology; stop being a tool of ones trade; stops being a source of entertainment and instead adopts the stance of a tetchy three year old in a supermarket. If a PC could have a tantrum it would take the form of a complete crash. Instead of a happy cloudy sky with Microsoft's logo sprawled across it, it displays something called a "C prompt" from which you are supposed to navigate your way back to reality. More frightening still is "Safe Mode" during which your PC fakes a headache rather the let itself be seduced by your frantic keyboard fumblings. If luck is on your side you have a chirpy PC helpdesk to assist you who will politely ask you to stop swearing and inform you that physical acts of violence on a PC rarely ever cure them. I have been a victim of such personal disasters on several occasions (I dare not say how many lest I have to edit this entry and increase the number each time). The latest of which accounts for the period of 5 weeks which has past since my last journal entry. As my wonderful and hugely inteligent workmate points out to me on a regular basis, "give me a pad of paper and some coloured pens anyday". Share and Enjoy - Misty.
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Sales Staff
Posted Aug 5, 1999
Here is a scenario which must have occured to many people at some time in their lives. You have to return a product to a store because it is faulty, damaged, the wrong size or, as in my case today, the product has been recalled for safety reasons. So all you, the customer, want to do is return the unwanted item and exchange it for a new one or for cash. Simple enough ? Hell no. You are then obliged to stand around for an interminable length of time while they do their stores internal paperwork. It is all about forms, stickers, receipts, refunds, Product codes, stapling this to that, scanning this for the other, plus a lot of head scratching and mumbling to themselves... Why on earth can they not just give you what you want and worry about their own crap later ? If you are a store manager (especially at Dixons in Brighton) please take note !
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Teenage Television
Posted Aug 3, 1999
When my Cable Guide arrived last week I was delighted to see that the hugely successful 80's hit TV series "Moonlighting" was to be repeated, from the very begining of the first series.The series starred Cybill Sheperd and Bruce Willis and was based around the exploits of the stars and the rediculous cases they investigated for clients of the Blue Moon Detective agency.The series ran from 1985 to 1989, thus spanning the most crucial of my formative years from ages 15 to 19. Each morning after an episode was screened the bus to school was totally dominated by discussions about what "Maddie" and "David" had been upto. We all so wanted to have the style and grace of Sheperd or the charm and cool whit of Willis. Put simply, it was THE hit series to my sixth form. Thus, with all these memories flooding around my mind, all those half remembered episodes and the fond reminiscence of the smokey, sweaty bus journeys to school I sat down excitedly to watch the pilot episode.The main point of this entry is therefore to remind myself and others that teenage memories are probably best as just that: Memories, as the disappointment of being rather underwhelmed by revisiting the experience is such a let down.Let sleeping dogs lie.
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Latest reply: Aug 3, 1999
Feedback Forms
Posted Aug 2, 1999
I am sure I am not alone in having to go through the sometimes onerous task of completing "Feedback Forms" on ones work colleagues. Does anyoneone out there know which culture we have to thank for this style of management ? I hope for once I am wrong in assuming it is an American idea but, you may agree it does smack very much of the US. It leads me to my main point which is, has anyone in the past completed a feedback form on someone who reached fame and fortune ? Has anyone had to pass judgement on, say, Nick Leason, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair or Butros Butros Gali ?
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People Watching
Posted Aug 1, 1999
August 1st 1999. As the temperature in the UK climbs from unbearable to headline making, my mum and I sat in the shade of a tree in St Ann's Wells Gardens in Hove, East Sussex and "people watched". A wonderful past-time which I can highly recommend. Harsh comments which we made to each other included "What has he got on", "Look at that one" and "Fat and Bald, now that is unfortunate". Our favourite, however, was the little girl who was being pushed along on a tricycle which had along handle attached to the back axle enabling her father to propel her forwards. The net result was essentially a "Child on a stick". I know there are many more people watchers out there who may have their own favourites. Take care now. DEE
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