I don’t find many things more exciting than new computer kit. It doesn’t matter whose computer kit and it doesn’t have to be that new as it still excites me.
I’m like a wee kid in a candy store on that sugar rush Christmas fix.
It also makes me a bit of a sad geek. But tell that to someone who cares.
Today is new computer kit coming out of our arses day. It also means I’m a positively jangling with Christmas morning D.T.’s.
And I’m not the only one. Fortunately my missus, Stephanie, also suffers from this particular geeky affliction and, in a desperate bid to keep up with the Jones’, has finally moved into the 21st century by purchasing broadband. Like all true addicts, this little fix wasn’t enough for one day. She had to chase that little dragon just a little bit further by spending $200 on a brand spanking graphics card with all that tv tuner mullarky going on. Considering the state of our computer over the pond, it’s tantamount to buying a Ferrari engine to put in a Fiat Panda. I also know that I wouldn’t have gotten away with buying one.
So, anyway, the plan at Butler Sheet Metal is to have a couple of networked computers so that Deborah has the new one in the office and the boys can have the older one on the shopfloor (to look at drawings and for, erm……Matt’s horse punditry). We’re finally going to have Microsoft Office and Sage plus something half decent to produce and print brochures off. It’s nothing overly amazing or cutting edge, but it’s still a major step in the right direction for us. Hell, we’re even going to be getting Skype phones for all and sundry.
And once we’ve got the computer side sorted we can start on the websites.
Obviously I’ll be back on here tomorrow whining like a bitch about something, but if everything does go without a hitch, I’ll show you some before and after pics of the office from hell.
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Comments
steven streight aka vaspers the grate
on 10/11/2005, 4:51 am
Going from dial up to broadband internet connect was, for me, like going from paper airplanes to space shuttles.
I recently downloaded free iTunes and learned how to download free legal music mp3s at Matador Records, Comfort Stand, Weirdo Music, Puzzling Recordings, and Amazon dot com.
But on dial up, the time required to download a music mp3 would have severely limited what I got, if not completely prohibit. Early experiments at mp3 dling and CD burning were miserable failures, so I gave it up.
Seeing as how I hate all television and all movies, except Seinfeld, Blotter, The Larry Sanders Show, and The Cable Guy, I gravitated toward music with my broadband cable connect.
I thus sympathize with your wife. Broadband is great. Now I’m thinking absurdly of getting a web cam, a harddrive microphone, more memory, stuff like that there.
Blogs are the Universalization of Web Content, the revolutionary Rise of the Individual Voice against corporate, government and MSM information hegemony.
S/V
steven streight aka vaspers the grate
on 12/11/2005, 2:37 am
R U following the controversy of scumbag Sony BMG and their rootkit installations via music CDs?
another asswipe corporation bites the bullet thanks to the Wrath of the Blogosphere. A lovely bedtime story for children:
“Sony BMG, Rootkit DRM, and the Angry Bloggers”
Steve Sawford
on 15/11/2005, 11:39 am
Mmm not posted for nearly a week! Is it play time Paul?
Paul Woodhouse
on 15/11/2005, 2:29 pm
My sincere apologies for my lack of posting and whatnot this past week. I’ve been up to the eyeballs with all this stuff both at work and at home. I’ve also just started work pulling pints covering some maternity leave. I’m just a slave to the mighty dollar and seeing what my exact breaking point is.
I honestly don’t know how anyone can live without broadband. I’m also just wondering how I managed to survive without wireless broadband and a laptop.
Where computers are concerned you can never have too much anything – unless you can’t afford it of course.