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Idiot season, CCNA, a shop!, gaming; news
May. 20th, 2006 02:36 pmAllan Hartzog put a little piece on Online Opionion, which attracted the usual responses from people who don't understand. That's tolerable enough. What I find extraordinary is the debate I've had with a property consultant who doesn't understand how Council rates are charged in Australia.
Other idiot of the week award goes to the community development group Borderlands. With a mere three licenses for MS-Office I've done the responsible thing and installed the ISO standard and community-developed OpenOffice on other machines. Apparently users don't know how to open a file with a preferred application and they don't know how to save a file according to the desired file type. I'm going to write these people some real basic instructions. Then I'm taking off the TiL I've accumulated. I might come back.
Apparently I have to re-sit the theory exam for CCNA semester 2 because I didn't complete the prac exam. Makes sense? Not really, but I'm cramming just the same.
Over the next few weeks I have three major website projects. Good lord. Work is pouring in. My little room in St Kilda is no longer big enough to store all my computer equipment; so I'm also looking at setting up a retail/home outlet in good ol' Spotswood.
Last night played HeroQuest with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
droog64 as Narrator; setting is 5th Century Britain, a dark and stormy time. If we're lucky we may even see the boy Arthur pull a sword from a stone. Or we'll have to find the Eagle of the Ninth (OK, so that was a lot earlier), or deal with Catweazel
Nepal becomes a secular democracy. The "Hobbits" weren't a new species. Aus.politics joke; Mosley's ancestors discovered. Concerns about ectasy and political lies.
Other idiot of the week award goes to the community development group Borderlands. With a mere three licenses for MS-Office I've done the responsible thing and installed the ISO standard and community-developed OpenOffice on other machines. Apparently users don't know how to open a file with a preferred application and they don't know how to save a file according to the desired file type. I'm going to write these people some real basic instructions. Then I'm taking off the TiL I've accumulated. I might come back.
Apparently I have to re-sit the theory exam for CCNA semester 2 because I didn't complete the prac exam. Makes sense? Not really, but I'm cramming just the same.
Over the next few weeks I have three major website projects. Good lord. Work is pouring in. My little room in St Kilda is no longer big enough to store all my computer equipment; so I'm also looking at setting up a retail/home outlet in good ol' Spotswood.
Last night played HeroQuest with
droog64 as Narrator; setting is 5th Century Britain, a dark and stormy time. If we're lucky we may even see the boy Arthur pull a sword from a stone. Or we'll have to find the Eagle of the Ninth (OK, so that was a lot earlier), or deal with Catweazel Nepal becomes a secular democracy. The "Hobbits" weren't a new species. Aus.politics joke; Mosley's ancestors discovered. Concerns about ectasy and political lies.