TGIF!

Yesterday was the most stressed that I’ve felt since the run-up to the launch of the Massive Christmas Tracking Project in my old job. I don’t think I slept properly all week. There were a lot of wobbles through the day, times when I was trying to respond to five IM conversations at once and [...]

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There are good reasons why I nearly cried at work today

Today has been a Bad Day.
My back has been hurting a fair bit for the last couple of weeks and I’ve been waking up a lot through the night, finding myself lying flat on my back which only makes it worse. I’m suspecting that part of the reason for my back being so sore and [...]

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Good and bad day

The good: the code for the project that I’ve been working on for nearly two months finally worked properly today. The data still needs to be validated, but this is the first time that it’s run through (twice!) without issues and produced data that looks good on a cursory inspection.
The bad: OMG, indigestion. And bloating. [...]

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Unix script help needed

I have hit a brick wall and any help that can be offered would be gratefully appreciated. My Google-fu isn’t up to the task, we have no reference books on Unix scripting here (“here’s a card with basic Unix commands – have fun!”), my local library has no books on Unix scripting and I haven’t [...]

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It’s been a while…

Today was one of *those* days. One of the ones where you’re rushing around trying to hit deadlines with dozens of things in the way and confusion abounding so that you feel as though you’ve run a marathon by the time you get home (half an hour late).
Yeah.
It’s been a while since I’ve had one [...]

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Oh, the pain of bad software design

I consider myself fairly dextrous normally. I can certainly use menus on software and most websites, although there are a couple of sites that I struggle with on a good day. Graphics packages are fine, whether I’m using my track ball or my graphical tablet, and there aren’t many computer-related tasks that I can’t do.
Unfortunately, [...]

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Recommendation needed – FTP software

I’m getting my new computer set up and I don’t have the original .exe install file for the FTP program that I used to use (AceFTP Pro) to update my websites. I’ve done some Googling and AceFTP Pro hasn’t been updated for several years, so I’m not sure how well it would work on Vista.
Does [...]

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I am mobile!

I am sitting in one of the new glider-rockers that was delivered this morning with my laptop. I.e. upstairs on the other side of the house from the router. And I have Internets! I am a mobile, Internet browsing girl. Woot!
It’s so cool
Despite a few issues when setting up my virus scanning (sorted [...]

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I have a computer!

My computer is here! I have fought McAfee and won, I have Firefox installed and I have a computer!!
*clings to computer like woah*
I am such a happy girl. She’s so pretty. I have a built in SD card so tomorrow I shall start putting my piccies on Flickr. Mostly I’m just stroking her and whispering [...]

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Skype disappearing

Skype keeps disappearing on me. I’d call it a crash, except there is no error message or warning. The program loads up, logs in and five seconds later it disappears completely from the screen, the icon tray and even Task Manager. It doesn’t stay up long enough for me to make any changes to anything [...]

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