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Jul28th

Charging my iPhone

I thought I’d give my iPhone battery a bit of a charge, so I plugged it into my PC (I’m at work) and saw the following…

“Great” I thought “it recognises it”. However, my world soon fell apart as this message appeared:

Although this has happened to me in the past with other devices, I’ve always been able to charge them, however, with the iPhone it won’t charge. So…out has come the MacBook…the most expensive iPhone charger ever!

Jul3rd

I Must Stop Ranting!

But having to use Windows (at work anyway) gives me a good excuse

Today I was adding some new functionality to an Excel file. The file is stored on our network and when I came to save it, I got a message box saying “File not saved”. We had earlier experienced a network connectivity outage so, thinking that this was the problem, I tried to save it to the local C: drive - same problem.

I couldn’t simply copy and paste into a new file for several reasons - the file contains over 20 sheets, a large number of “Range Names” and several complex VBA procedures.

And the last straw came when I read the Microsoft Knowledgebase - Restart Windows in Safe Mode (which of course means I lose the changes to the file) and then try to save the Excel file to your local hard-disk drive.

Agggghhhh!!

Jun24th

Two Tin Cans and a Piece of String, Anyone??

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Jun24th

Evernote Woes

Trying to use Evernote at work. However, it doesn’t appear to support IE6. Roll on the iPhone!

Evernote

Jun21st

Bill Gates Interview

Just finished watching the Bill Gates interview on BBC2. Interesting insight into the man who changed the computer world (although that’s a matter of opinion I suppose). I was going to watch it earlier in the day (during my lunch hour) but Internet Explorer had other ideas.

Bill Gates

Sums it up really!