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Idiot season, CCNA, a shop!, gaming; news
Allan 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.
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Ah, yes. I remember Anthony Grigor-Scott. He's toned his writing down a lot since his NKOTY award. IIRC, he was quite the loony Christian nutter before then.
One thing that really shows how much the newsgroup changed when Howard got in: The two earliest award winners (Omri Schwartz and some other guy) won largely out of being vehement libertarians in an era when we sensibly thought they were half insane. These days, they'd be given ministerial positions.
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The thing with Turcard's posts is that he claims of impending disaster get more and more crazy; and when they are not fulfilled he goes quiet for a while. Mos would have never done that!
As for the newsgroup changing... well, that's hardly surprising. In 1998 knowing that USENET existed was still a minority position.