Hi everyone, hope all is well.
(and boy am I glad for the good old spell checker, if it wasn't for that , this posting wouldn't make any sense at all -
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It is nice to see, that, the F1 establishment has ratified the right result for the Brazilian GP.
Giancarlo Fisichella has been made the winner.
This is what should have happened on Sunday, but none the less, they have made the right decision. The joy on the face's of the Jordan team was something to behold.And then, how they graciously accepted the result as it was posted on the day. But at least now justice has been done.
The reason for a picture of Homer?
Any guesses?
It was one of those "DOH!" moments.
The worst of it was it was something I do two or three times a month as a routine.
As an attempt to keep the old PC in top form, I have habitually carried out a set of routines like de-fraging the disc, running the virus scan program, you know the type. Unlike normal (if that's the right way to put it) I decided to run some of my routines on Thursday night, instead of Saturday Afternoon (I pick Saturday afternoon because everyone else is busy doing something else - so there is no-one wanting to actually use the computer).
Anyway, Thursday night I decided to remove the unwanted files via the property function on the right click of the "My Computer". Having picked "remove Internet files" and the like, and added the "do you want to remove old restore points" I set it going. After about half an hour, it still looked as if it had only just started (mind you - truth be told I hadn't actually run this particular task for several weeks - so there were a few "spare" files to go through). It was getting late, so I thought "I'll leave it running over night" and went upstairs to say "night night " to Tilly. A few minutes later Liam came up saying he'd turned off everything downstairs, and the Kids went to bed, Cathy sat reading on the bed and I went for a bath.
When I got up in the morning, I realized that Liam had actually do something "sort of right" for a change. I know that sounds bad, he's a good lad really (although well into his training to be a teenager -
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What he normally does is turn off the lights, the TV, close the door and that's it. Not that night. He had seen the screen was still lit on the computer, closed it down as he had been shown, and turned everything off.
Good lad.
I'm not complaining, he did what he was supposed too, and he did it correctly. The fault was mine for leaving it on in the first place - it hadn't, as far as I can work out, finished the file deletion cycle.
The results?
When I fired the computer back up, the display would only come up in "4 bit colour" mode.
Ohh Ohh I thought. Never mind, I'll just reset to resolution back to normal.
Guess what?
The were now no other choices - only 4 bit colour. What ever I did I just couldn't get the resolution back - it was starting to drive me crackers. Then worse. The Explorer function in XP started to fail. "What was I to do?"
Thank god for System Restore. It still worked. The whole thing came back as it did before. Took a deep breath, and was glad it had all come back OK. Or so it seems. Nothing has gone wrong this morning - but we shall see.
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BT has a new logo.
The BT "Trumpeter" has been around for about 15 years, but it has been decided, so I've been told, that it was seen that a trumpeter was representative of the "old world" of telecoms - old technologies.The new logo is an image of a global comms revolution of BT's intention to be part of the future.
I never really did like the trumpeter, not counting the initial jibes about "blowing your own trumpet" and the like.
We shall see if this lasts 15 years
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Last comment for today?. Have just got a letter from the Union about the first one day Strike ("Day of Action" they called it). BT have obtained a High Court injunction preventing the strike from taking place. It doesn't say on what grounds the injunction has been based (I suppose it's one of those legal things, "We cann't comment until our lawyers have studied the text of the ruling" and that sort of thing), but that does seem to be that for now.
Although I am now back in on Monday, from Tuesday I am then on leave/rota days off until 28th April, so I will be "away" from the information and/or gossip of what is going on. Something major "Is going down", but I'm not sure what.
In a way I'm releaved, and in another it makes me angry. And both "big boys" are still not talking to each other. What a waste of time and money.
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