Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Pie day
After much discussion it was settled that today was a pie day. Furthermore, the consensus was that Eve in Ewell Village does better and bigger pies than Pinnegar in Cheam. And we were in luck in that the day we decided was pie day was a day on which Eve had some pies; being made more or less on the premises in relatively small numbers one can't be sure. So one large chicken and one large steak and kidney it was. Which filled me up to the point where a siesta was indicated.
All well deserved in that I had spent part of the morning upgrading one of my PCs twice. That is to say upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 followed by upgrade from MS Office 2007 to MS Office 2010. Apart from a slight wobble when the PC said that I was not allowed to upgrade from bog standard windows to professional windows and had to do something else, both went smoothly, in both cases the hardest part being typing in the long authentication numbers without making a mistake. Clever the way the Microsoft authentication telephone now sends you a text message rather than getting you to write the authentication number down to its dictation while at the same time trying to keep one's phone in one's ear. The new windows has got a new decor and there are probably some new features I will learn to use one day. The new office has not got a new decor but, so far, does run my code in much the same way as the old. With the exception of some irritating changes for the worse to the way in which it decides which window is current at any one time. First task, to get to the bottom of them. Second task, to start going through what's new.
I am left with a worry though. Installation of both products rather assumed that the PC being upgraded was connected to the internet. There was an offline option but for how long? I can't be the only customer who wants a PC for reasons other than poking around in google or twitter. And so do not want the bother and expense of anti-virus software and so on & so forth.
# posted by Jim @ 8:29 AM 
