Would that the office were always like this...

I like days like today.

The boss is out doing whatever bosses do on days off, and the lackey is out too, doing something appropriately Planchet-esque. This means that I am the branch today, and that's how I like it.

I can get stuff done at my own pace with fewer blithering interruptions and much less annoyance. We have a fair amount to do - it's still the busy period on the run up to Christmas, but having a bit of piece and quiet in the office doesn't half help.

I shall away now, and get on with some drafting, I think.

Would that the office were always like this...

I like days like today.

The boss is out doing whatever bosses do on days off, and the lackey is out too, doing something appropriately Planchet-esque. This means that I am the branch today, and that's how I like it.

I can get stuff done at my own pace with fewer blithering interruptions and much less annoyance. We have a fair amount to do - it's still the busy period on the run up to Christmas, but having a bit of piece and quiet in the office doesn't half help.

I shall away now, and get on with some drafting, I think.

Plug and Pray: Should have known better.

Well, those of you who actually know me won't be surprised to know that about a week ago I indulged in my favourite hobby of spending money I don't have on something I don't need. Yes indeed.

I bought myself a new, top-of-the-range Sony Ericsson Z600 mobile phone. When I was God fathering chez wallaboks, the lady of the house bought a new Z600 and from then on it was but a matter of time.

Curse my weak and feeble willpower.

As phones go, it's looovly...

Anyway, all this full colour display and stuff got me thinking. I've had bluetooth enabled phones before, but this was the first colour one, and it has a big (for a phone) screen and various other utilities, so I thought, OK, it's time to bluetooth enable my PC. So I return to the garrett today armed with a USB Bluetooth Dongle. Who names these things? I mean, I ask you: a Dongle. Good grief...

Anyway, it's all installed - though currently disconnected. I have an ancient machine and consequently there is a dearth of USB ports, so the dongle will appear only as and when I need to faff around between phone and 'puter.

I have yet to work out precisely how to send stuff from the PC to the phone, but that's OK. The phone is not backward about coming forward so to speak, and is happy enough to send to the PC and rifle through the machine of its own accord to find the files it wants, little light fingered-sod that it is.

Anyway, if it wasn't for the fact that I can no longer turn the PC off, without pulling the power cable out the back, I'd be quite happy. As it is, Glyn sans LJ, my computer guru is investigating the problem on my behalf.

It's not an incpapcitating problem, apart from that the PC works perfectly (touch wood), but it is, once again, evidence that life is less than simple in the virtual world of Windoze bequeathed to us by Mr Gates.

I expect that despite my deepest misgivings, I am approaching the day that I install XP, since all these new bits of tech are designed to work with that rather than 98, the very basic drivers for which are included as a courtesy only.

I tell you though, I don't think I'll be spending dosh on it if I can possibly get around thye problem in any other way.

Plug and Pray: Should have known better.

Well, those of you who actually know me won't be surprised to know that about a week ago I indulged in my favourite hobby of spending money I don't have on something I don't need. Yes indeed.

I bought myself a new, top-of-the-range Sony Ericsson Z600 mobile phone. When I was God fathering chez wallaboks, the lady of the house bought a new Z600 and from then on it was but a matter of time.

Curse my weak and feeble willpower.

As phones go, it's looovly...

Anyway, all this full colour display and stuff got me thinking. I've had bluetooth enabled phones before, but this was the first colour one, and it has a big (for a phone) screen and various other utilities, so I thought, OK, it's time to bluetooth enable my PC. So I return to the garrett today armed with a USB Bluetooth Dongle. Who names these things? I mean, I ask you: a Dongle. Good grief...

Anyway, it's all installed - though currently disconnected. I have an ancient machine and consequently there is a dearth of USB ports, so the dongle will appear only as and when I need to faff around between phone and 'puter.

I have yet to work out precisely how to send stuff from the PC to the phone, but that's OK. The phone is not backward about coming forward so to speak, and is happy enough to send to the PC and rifle through the machine of its own accord to find the files it wants, little light fingered-sod that it is.

Anyway, if it wasn't for the fact that I can no longer turn the PC off, without pulling the power cable out the back, I'd be quite happy. As it is, Glyn sans LJ, my computer guru is investigating the problem on my behalf.

It's not an incpapcitating problem, apart from that the PC works perfectly (touch wood), but it is, once again, evidence that life is less than simple in the virtual world of Windoze bequeathed to us by Mr Gates.

I expect that despite my deepest misgivings, I am approaching the day that I install XP, since all these new bits of tech are designed to work with that rather than 98, the very basic drivers for which are included as a courtesy only.

I tell you though, I don't think I'll be spending dosh on it if I can possibly get around thye problem in any other way.