Tag: geek

    snee – computer whisperer

    It’s that time of the month again…no, I’m not bleeding or anything – I mean Microshite just released the monthly updates 🙂 I love it…I can guarantee 4 out of 10 computers will have issues with the updates, and who do people call? who is the only one in town who can talk them through problems over the phone? That’d be me – and I’m not blowing my own trumpet (too much) here – there’s a reason my mates refer to me as ‘The Matrix’, I have this sixth sense when it comes to sick computers – my brother has […]

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    Geek Friday

    Geek quote: “Powerpoint is a tool used by tools to say nothing.” This made me snigger uncontrollably as the consultant we’ve got in to bring the ISO stuff up to date etc. insists on doing EVERYTHING in Powerpoint… Personally, the only MS product I use (other than Windows XP Pro) is Excel* – every other app is third party…Firefox for a browser, Thunderbird for email, PageMaker for layouts (I will take a look at InDesign sometime), and other Adobe products: Illustrator, Photoshop…the list goes on. * Think I’ll take off what little of Office is on my PC and install […]

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    A quick 'n' dirty geek post ('cos I know deep down y'all love 'em)

    Today has been mostly scripting so I’m like this: 🙂 The scripting has involved databases – we use FileMaker Pro. I like FileMaker, it’s easy to use and seemed to do exactly what I wanted of it. Lately however, I’ve been frustrated by my inability to achieve what I think the program is up to (yes, this has depressed me greatly – I hate being beat). Today though, I tried out FileMaker Pro 11 and OMG – this is me NOW: 😀 The scripting in it is so, so much better than the version we had before (*cough* 5.5) – […]

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    Random Friday stuff

    Whilst moving between offices this morning, I happened upon TGND so settled in for a bit of a geeky chat. It all started promisingly: “Have you heard of Geek Squad?” he asks. “It rings a vague bell.” says I. “I’m gonna call them and have a dictaphone to record them…” he goes on, with an evil smirk. “Why’s that?” I enquire. “I’m gonna ask them some questions regarding Linux, and when they say they don’t do Linux, I’m gonna say ‘What kind of geeks are you? you’re not geeks, you’re nerds!’” I had to agree with him there. The conversation […]

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