Just to wish a Merry Christmas to all (all right, both) my regular readers - Jorge and Beverly - to the less regular visitors - Miguel, Eme and Lumife - and to the other lurkers who come back from time to time without leaving comments, especially Sunnyvale, CA and Lancaster, UK.
Got a new piece of brilliance from Windows today in the office. Windows XP Professional is very good at dealing with most things you throw at it. Give it a corporate network and it will recognise it automatically. Today it decided to no longer recognise a network card. Help said try uninstalling - it wouldn't allow that: "required for boot-up". Then Help said "update drivers from the internet" - bloody brilliant considering that the PC "knows" that internet access is via the corporate network and that there is no network card installed. Doh!
This is just another in a long series of great messages. Try: "USB device error - click here to continue", when the only USB device is the mouse. And how about the MS-DOS classic when booting a PC with no keyboard: "Keyboard Error - Press F1 to continue".
There are some brilliant guys at Microsoft. It's a shame the ones who write the error messages have never manned a help desk.
In my opinion, the best performance in the Presidential election debates so far has been from Miguel Sousa Tavares. It's a shame he's not standing...
Just what Soares needed: a personal attack to make voters sorry for him. I don't think the phrase "Atrasado Mental" was the best judged reaction however. (Try putting that into Google's translator!)
If it comes to a fist fight, my money's on Jeronimo.
"Barroso warns Blair not to act like Sheriff of Nottingham" - Financial Times
Arioplano would have done it better...
