I had a fairly miserable last week. I spent much of it lying down waiting for Death to take me. But did he come? No. Some people have no work ethic. I was even waiting with my father who was equally ill, but still we could not get Death’s attention. He is such a snob.
Anyway, whilst waiting for Death you tend to catch up on a lot of television viewing, and I must say that Foxtel is absolutely the most horrible thing. Actually, Broadcast TV seems to be the horrible thing here. The ads are disturbingly repetitive and in your face. Even watching documentary channels such as Discovery and National Geographic was made unpleasant by the horrible ads they use. And you see the same ads again and again. Fortunately we bought season 2 of Frasier on DVD yesterday and watched that. Now suddenly we had the content that TV tries to deliver, but without the ads. It was wonderful and quite possibly what has cured me.
On the subject of buying DVDs, if you are cash-conscious (If you’re not, give me a call and we’ll talk), GetOnce provides a brilliant resource. It searches the databases of the major DVD sellers and gives you prices for each result it finds. And it isn’t limited to DVDs, it also does Books, CDs and other stuff (including Perfume).
Oh, and I’m not dead yet.
An interesting problem has resurfaced in Microsoft Word for me today. That is, smooshed characters. Now how exactly is one supposed to describe the smooshiness in the of text in Word to the Microsoft Knowledge base.
Basically the problem is that the characters are not being spaced and each subsequent character appears on top of the one before it. Changing the font size fixes the problem, but you are unable to use that font/size combination for the remainder of the Word session. If you close and reopen Word, the problem goes away.
I am assuming the problem occurs when something wacky happens to the font in Word’s memory, butt one would hove thought this bug would be fixed by now. (Using Word XP) The problem has occurred on multiple PCs.
If you have any theories as to what might be causing the problem or how to fix it, let me know by making a comment to this post.
The results for the 2005 i-think Awards are in and a fun night was had by all last Sunday. Photos to be uploaded shortly. For a full list of all the vote totals, check out the Excel File. A full page of the winners will be up shortly, but at the moment I am focussing on the planning phase of the new i-think Awards website which whilst not as integrated with i-think Twenty-Two as I had originally planned, will serve to provide a great platform from which to run the awards. Once the new site goes live (I’m hoping within a month) I will be sending out the awards to those winners across the world and hope to receive some feedback to publish on the site.
The new awards site will also serve as a platform for the development of the official rules of the i-think Awards that will finally state the necessary procedures in particular with resolving grievances. If you have any suggestions for how the site can best be improved, let me know. A fair chunk of the backend will stay, but it will be rejigged as necessary to enforce the newly published rules better.