Day Two, 6am
6am
You know, it’s still dark outside. I could pretend it’s only 10pm the night before and feel less sleepy. I think all that Anadin has thinned my blood, I feel very light headed... but at least the pain in my kidneys has gone away a bit. It must be the Nurofen doing their job.
I now have sound. Thanks Vista for assuming that my USB headset was what I wanted to listen to... and thanks for bloody telling me you’d installed the drivers...
At least Vista isn’t whinging about my PDA’s media player being out of date... I just ignored the pop-up warnings and got on with configuring everything else. Such as my monitors. Quick question with regards to those. How come Vista can see the make and model of BOTH monitors but only sets the primary monitor to optimal resolution? Why is monitor 2 set to some poxy low res so that when I enable it I think it’s borked because all I have a blocky green mess?
Where’s MY button to tell you you’re dumb and yes, you really are dumb???
7am
Right, media extender time... oh hang on, I’d better set up media centre. I’m on well safe ground here, been using MCE for ages.
Yep, that was a breeze.
Right, media extender time, let’s go power up that Xbox 360.
Ok, yep, go on, populate the music, videos and pictures things. No, no, hang on... where’s the option to only select certain folders. No, I KNOW there’s other pictures in this folder but it’s the folders in here I want, not all that other dross... gah!
8am
Ok, where’s that file I downloaded earlier? Well, I know it’s in the ‘downloads’ folder but let’s give this indexed searching thing a run.
Oh great. Juts ber-loody marvellous. How the hell am I supposed to find a file in that lot? Yes, it’s all well and good the search engine combing through all my emails, my docs, files and folders, programmes and even RSS feeds, but has the bloke who designed this ever heard of making a search return usable results?
Honestly, this is like looking for a needle in a field full of haystacks and only being told which ten of the fifty haystacks the pin might be in. Honestly, there must be some way of filtering the damn search so it only scours certain areas... a right click perhaps? Nope... right, let’s start the search again and then go online to see if anyone has a clue how to stop the damn thing returning more results than a Google for “*.*”
Oh that’s clever. And by that I mean clever as in bloody stupid. If I search from the start menu, doing ANYTHING else closes the search!
Right, that’s it. I’m going to bed.
8.30am
Ok, time to start work...
Good morning Vista, yes, I do have that user thingies turned off. No, I don’t care that my PDA has an old version of media player. No, I don’t want the rather soft and rounded feeling IE 7 with its stupidly placed buttons and crappy RSS feeds system, I really do want Firefox 2, yes I know that... oh for god’s sake, stop asking me bloody questions! Just stop it! STOP! STOPPPPP!!!!!
To be continued....
