2 articles came to my attention over the past few days. The first was this one, which sells the idea of using purely web-based applications over more traditional ones such as Word and Outlook. The second is this, which proves that an old, well designed computer (in this case an Apple Lisa) can still be used for modern day work.
Both have some very good points and could be used as an argument for:
- a) never buying a new computer
- b) never upgrading your OS
So, is this true? Well I believe, partly it is. Even if I have just ordered a brand new PC and Windows Vista.
These days however (the days of Web 2.0 and broadband) you do not need a Sooper-Ghzord-megga-RAMedd-up power PC to do most things.
This is because most of our day-to-day computer needs can be done online simply using browser power. You do not even need a hugely powerful PC to achieve this, or even a large scale OS. Read the rest of this entry…
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Like 400,000 other people got up early Sunday morning to attempt to get my Glastonbury tickets.
Fortunately I was one of the lucky ones and managed to bag 2 weekend coach tickets.
The new registration system seemed to have made little difference to the ‘lottery’ feeling you get every time you try and get tickets to this wonderful festival. I still had to get up extra early, fire up the PC, the laptop, the landline and mobile phones and sustain a full on assault. Read the rest of this entry…
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After a few years of arms length fiddling I decided to jump back in and sell a few things on eBay.
It seems that certain things have changed?
You see, I sold an item to some bloke who took almost 3 weeks to pay up. After the first week of waiting I emailed to find out what was going on and he informed me that for some reason his eCheque went loco and he had no idea why.
Today, I posted the item so it was feedback time!
Because of the problems with the sale I decided to leave NEUTRAL feedback. However, when I tried to add the fact that there had been problems with the sale and therefore NEUTRAL feedback seemed the right choice I was barraged with an eBay tutorial on why I shouldn’t do this?
I also found this nugget of information that goes some way to explain why NEUTRAL feedback is seen as the next worst thing to a Nazi Fox Hunter:
NEUTRAL FEEDBACK SHOULD NEVER BE GIVEN (FIRST) – sellers generally prefer NO FEEDBACK whatsoever to Neutral or Negative. Neutral is generally considered to be a “faux negative”.
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