I installed “Thelonius” (WordPress 3.0) today, and temporarily installed the Twenty Ten theme at the same time, so that we can get used to the new version. We may go back to the previous theme at some point, but for now it’s “out of the box” WordPress!
Annual leave. A day of rest. Yeah right.
Sacrifice half of that for a meeting: planned at short notice and due to involve me, a middle person and someone else who I shall call Maggie (not a real name, you understand… but bears an attitudinal semblance to a famous person in politics).
I arrive for the meeting to discover that Maggie can’t cope with a meeting on her own. Instead she’s brought an uninvited henchman. At almost no notice.
Never mind, carry on. Rise above it. [I've risen above it so far that I'm sharing space with meteorological balloons]
End result: I have been comprehensively bullied but at least I’ve made a diagnosis.
Maggie satisfies the diagnostic criteria for narcissistic personality disorder.
“A pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy”… absolutely.
“… excessively preoccupied with issues of personal adequacy, power, and prestige”… oh yeah!!
See http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/dsm-iv.html
Do I feel better having made the diagnosis? Sadly not. I just wish I didn’t have to deal with Maggie!
The summer of 2010 was fabulous. I take it that’s what the weekend just gone was? It was wonderfully hot and sunny, the kids swam in a friend’s outdoor pool whilst the alleged grown-ups enjoyed a very sociable barbecue. So we enjoyed the summer and have got the wellies back out for the rest of the months to October.
I only wish all the weekends could be like that and the weeks could be much shorter and less numerous.
On Saturday we came home from a shopping trip with a Mac Mini, to go with several Linux machines, a few Windows boxes, and a Macbook Pro. I almost immediately shut the lid on my old Dell notebook and went for the “total immersion” approach to getting started doing things the Apple way. It was pretty painless… I’m not quite a convert yet, but it could easily get that way.
My only issues so far have been getting a Logitech wave keyboard to work properly (which isn’t Apple’s fault – it’s not their hardware, after all).
Networking, email and general office type stuff is a breeze, and managing the other ‘unix type’ boxes is fine. Many more challenges await my baby Mac though, so I’ll update as I learn more.
I’m getting older. In about a month’s time I’ll be older. About a month older than I am now. But a year older than I was on my birthday last year.
Quite enough years.
Present ideas? Really really difficult… all I can think of is menthol jellies.
There’ll be more ideas but I’m trying to avoid geekery.
If I had my own news programme, I would interview politicians and insist they talk ONLY about their own policies, and not mention a single word about the perceived failings of the opposition.
I’m fed up of hearing answers along the lines of “You might think our policy is bad, but the other idiots would leave this country open to [[insert bad thing here]].
I’m a voter – I reckon it’s my job to decide which policies I want to vote for. I just want the politicians to tell me clearly what their policies are. And they don’t.
Okay. I confess. I have seen the light… well… mainly.
There are roles for all OSs in our house! Linux in various flavours lives on our servers… Windows XP Home on our son’s computer (games support for his purposes)… Windows 7 for my big desktop machine (which runs loads of Windows software I wouldn’t be without)… Windows 7 for the house PC (used by many children who all use M$ OSs at school – and by relatives who are Windows people)… both Linux and XP Pro on husband’s laptop (for now)…
But now I have a Macbook. ‘Nuff said.
The Mac purists who object to Bootcamp and Parallels running Windows stuff are a tad annoying – I’ve been accused of ‘contaminating a beautiful machine’! Good grief – it’s only a bunch of moving electrons… hardly ‘contaminatable’. It’s just there for a small number of programs I want available just in case and it’s very very handy to have it.
The Macbook is a lovely beast. An expensive-for-the-processor-power-but-its-not-about-the-processor-power aesthetic delight.
I’m a happy maccie now. With Windows too.
There have been no posts for a while. Why not?
Could it be the advent of a dog? Or too much work? Or something else?
Interrupted there… the dog’s face is hugely swollen on one side. Looks like she must have been stung by a bee (or similar).
Another reason for ‘no posts for a while’.
It’s the middle of the night again – working on the ‘puter until this late on a Friday night isn’t good for much… but does reduce the stress levels associated with having far too much on my todo list. I suppose that’s enough of a reason this week. It’ll be an assignment getting written next week unless that happens on Thursday evening (very doubtful). I begin to think I need to do less. A holiday from work will help.
Insomnia. Snoring. Insomnia. Snoring. Small child clambering. Snoring. Insomnia. Ho hum.
