breath of fresh...
travelling by bus sucked as i expected, in particular standing in line and having a cloud of really nasty smoke hit me full-on... the guy was blowing the smoke in the other direction, which happened to be into the breeze. it bothered me that i had to tell him to toss it.
how touching
i've asked the guys in the office a number of times to leave the birthday gift (magic eightball thing) alone, but to no avail - and now it's broken. dammit!
taking the spam rap
early on in the morning my office was stormed by a number of people accusing me of having spammed the entire unit with a side-project i've been working on. i actually had to prove my innocence, which took a bit of work. at some point they even had me questioning myself, but i managed to clear away any doubt and they let me get on with it.
the funny thing is that when i wanted to probe the most probable source of the problem, we discovered that the guy who'd passed the buck my way had deleted the files in question. hmmm... only slightly suspicious.
powerpoint efficiency pt 1
i'm not really proficient with microsoft's office suite, and i was certain that powerpoint wouldn't let me transfer all the slides from presentation to presentation at once. i was impressed to be shown otherwise. i could stop copying and pasting all items per slide...
anaesthetic
i went to the dentist this morning for the final treatment (another filling) for the half-year. i was blown away by how painless the procedure was, although my jaw hurt from keeping it so wide open. i then had to keep as silent as possible for a few hours for fear of being mistaken for the idiot. unfortunately, the timing was such that at lunchtime i still had two hours to go... i'd brought marmite for the section, so i decided to get myself some bread and that would be that.
completely forgetting that there're provisions of decent take-away tuna salad available. *sigh*
at least i had a good excuse to make myself a serious one when i got home :)
as for the marmite, there was only one person brave enough to try it today, and he fully agreed with my description - and spent the next hour trying not to throw up :P
i'm not gonna bother a sick cousin, i was going to ask her about ski insurance but she wasn't even in the office. i don't actually know how much the general insurance covers...
powerpoint efficiency pt 2
discovering the cause of all my woes by absolute fluke, right after the guys who'd enthusiastically volunteered to help me had given up. i suddenly realized that every presentation had a hidden and extremely large background image tucked away. deleting those fixed almost all of the bad guys and got most of my work complete ^_^
hebrew solution
while discovering potential sources for the problem solved above, i read that the solution to my pda's linguistic issues is as simple as setting the character set to utf-8. why didn't i think of that before?! i didn't even look to see if the option was available!
powerpoint efficiency pt 3
i spent the rest of the afternoon fumbling with a presentation that exhibits the same symptoms that the previous fixes solved. so far i've managed to figure them out, but this issue is totally elusive. the final point i arrived at this evening was deciding that tomorrow i'm going to isolate each and every slide (out of, like, 150)... the amount of energy i've put into this instead of the interesting project is frightening.
candlelight and wizardly timing
tonight's the first night of chanukah, so we lit the candles and sang. i was wondering if maybe it would've been more appropriate to learn all the words to the jewish songs before tackling amazing grace. that i still remember!
flatmate alliance
the new flatmate and i chatted when i arrived home, and it turns out she and i share some grievances with the weird guy and she's seen way worse than i have. i explained to her that this is why i need my own space...
back to earth
again?! i just got back from cafeneto, having gone there with the express purpose of checking out the "fix" i read about today. sunshine was there, and she's behaving... strangely towards me. i'll never get her.
the browser crashed every time i tried to create a new blog post (i wanted to copy and paste from my notes, now i've had to type them out again). i can't even watch youtube videos because the links from "m.youtube" are considerately non-operational. i think that's connected to the warning when entering the site targeted at capped users.
and to make matters even more interesting, the washing machine finished the cycle without using any water, powder or softener. weird.
to make up for the pda crashing with blogger, i'm trying to post this from email - which my pda can handle. holding thumbs...
travelling by bus sucked as i expected, in particular standing in line and having a cloud of really nasty smoke hit me full-on... the guy was blowing the smoke in the other direction, which happened to be into the breeze. it bothered me that i had to tell him to toss it.
how touching
i've asked the guys in the office a number of times to leave the birthday gift (magic eightball thing) alone, but to no avail - and now it's broken. dammit!
taking the spam rap
early on in the morning my office was stormed by a number of people accusing me of having spammed the entire unit with a side-project i've been working on. i actually had to prove my innocence, which took a bit of work. at some point they even had me questioning myself, but i managed to clear away any doubt and they let me get on with it.
the funny thing is that when i wanted to probe the most probable source of the problem, we discovered that the guy who'd passed the buck my way had deleted the files in question. hmmm... only slightly suspicious.
powerpoint efficiency pt 1
i'm not really proficient with microsoft's office suite, and i was certain that powerpoint wouldn't let me transfer all the slides from presentation to presentation at once. i was impressed to be shown otherwise. i could stop copying and pasting all items per slide...
anaesthetic
i went to the dentist this morning for the final treatment (another filling) for the half-year. i was blown away by how painless the procedure was, although my jaw hurt from keeping it so wide open. i then had to keep as silent as possible for a few hours for fear of being mistaken for the idiot. unfortunately, the timing was such that at lunchtime i still had two hours to go... i'd brought marmite for the section, so i decided to get myself some bread and that would be that.
completely forgetting that there're provisions of decent take-away tuna salad available. *sigh*
at least i had a good excuse to make myself a serious one when i got home :)
as for the marmite, there was only one person brave enough to try it today, and he fully agreed with my description - and spent the next hour trying not to throw up :P
i'm not gonna bother a sick cousin, i was going to ask her about ski insurance but she wasn't even in the office. i don't actually know how much the general insurance covers...
powerpoint efficiency pt 2
discovering the cause of all my woes by absolute fluke, right after the guys who'd enthusiastically volunteered to help me had given up. i suddenly realized that every presentation had a hidden and extremely large background image tucked away. deleting those fixed almost all of the bad guys and got most of my work complete ^_^
hebrew solution
while discovering potential sources for the problem solved above, i read that the solution to my pda's linguistic issues is as simple as setting the character set to utf-8. why didn't i think of that before?! i didn't even look to see if the option was available!
powerpoint efficiency pt 3
i spent the rest of the afternoon fumbling with a presentation that exhibits the same symptoms that the previous fixes solved. so far i've managed to figure them out, but this issue is totally elusive. the final point i arrived at this evening was deciding that tomorrow i'm going to isolate each and every slide (out of, like, 150)... the amount of energy i've put into this instead of the interesting project is frightening.
candlelight and wizardly timing
tonight's the first night of chanukah, so we lit the candles and sang. i was wondering if maybe it would've been more appropriate to learn all the words to the jewish songs before tackling amazing grace. that i still remember!
flatmate alliance
the new flatmate and i chatted when i arrived home, and it turns out she and i share some grievances with the weird guy and she's seen way worse than i have. i explained to her that this is why i need my own space...
back to earth
again?! i just got back from cafeneto, having gone there with the express purpose of checking out the "fix" i read about today. sunshine was there, and she's behaving... strangely towards me. i'll never get her.
the browser crashed every time i tried to create a new blog post (i wanted to copy and paste from my notes, now i've had to type them out again). i can't even watch youtube videos because the links from "m.youtube" are considerately non-operational. i think that's connected to the warning when entering the site targeted at capped users.
and to make matters even more interesting, the washing machine finished the cycle without using any water, powder or softener. weird.
to make up for the pda crashing with blogger, i'm trying to post this from email - which my pda can handle. holding thumbs...
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