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Scotland, Vista, Uni Aug. 28th, 2008 @ 01:32 pm
[info]mixelmagic
 Well I'm back from Scotland..

Not that i mentioned I was going there in the first place. Elizabeth met her sort-of great grandparents, went to the beach, had walks around woods and stuff. I took a load of photos and will upload them shortly.

Watched 30 Days Of Night and really liked it.. Watched the remake of The Omen and wondered why they bothered.. Hmm..

Tried to help/teach an elderly person how to do normal word processing in Vista. Wow. I'd only really used Vista for gaming, UnrealED, Blender and Firefox, occasionally loading Internet Explorer (ugh).. Vista Word is crazy.. I hadn't realised the extent MS have obfuscated all of the options into "hidden" places. That doesn't make it simpler! Having a microscopic graphical symbol that makes no sense unless you understand the symbolism or mouse over it, with the alternatives being 2 levels down a clickable menu IS NOT how you make things easier to use.

I quite like it for personal use, by moving the options off to a corner sub-menu its more like Linux, oddly, which seems like the exact opposite of what I imagine MS were trying to do, but yes.. It's ok if you're the sort of person who's comfortable with and enjoys poking around.. It's great if you like learning new systems - but I doubt I'm in the majority there and i don't think this new way is more intuitive than the old one; a new user who's not good with computers having to learn /this/ system has a significantly harder struggle ahead of them than they would with XP..

I'm pretty sure (well, I hope!) it can be customised to be much more "friendly", with persistent text labels and bigger icons etc, but I wasn't supposed to be reconfiguring Word to look completely different..

Oh well.. I'm very glad for Pages and OpenOffice.

I just got a big load of paperwork from uni.. I go back on Sept 25th. Just a few more months and I'll have a degree! It's going to be potentially complex to juggle with Eli stuff but I'm really looking forward to being back there again.
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toronto Aug. 24th, 2008 @ 07:51 pm
[info]psykokandy
 i think there are a few of you who live in toronto.. at any rate, i'm here 'til thursday, so if you're reading this and wanna hang out, comment or email or something!

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