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

When not staring out of the window at the wildlife of the East Midlands, or watching Asgardian action movies, I am often found staring instead at my computer. Today has been all about migration*, in that my employer is finally dragging itself into something approaching up-to-date and we're moving from Windows XP to 7, and they've *finally* worked out ways of moving the legacy apps from IE6 (yes, I know *sigh*).

Migration is being rolled out in phases, presumably so that we don't annoy the IT guys all at the same time. It's also being 'user-led' so for those of use with laptops or desktops that don't have a fit of the vapours at the the mere thought of Windows 7 we have to go through the process ourselves, being led by various documents, tools and videos, which just about manage not to contradict each other. Just. The other lucky sort get shiny new hardware ready-to-go and the old ones taken away, no buttons to press, no boxes to check. I dutifully watched the video, then had to watch it again as I got distracted by trying to work out where the narrator's accent was from (oddly mid-Atlantic). Then I managed to produce an 'interesting' error message. Finally I managed to get it started on the preparatory processes, just in time to go home

Hopefully by tomorrow it'll have finished all the preliminary things and I can finally press the button on migrating, and then leave it to do its thing while I'm in London at a conference on Wednesday



*I keep expecting to hear the hushed tones of Richard Attenborough when it gets mentioned.

[Amy P]