My So-Called Life

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People ask me, "What do you do with your life, Kapitano?". Well, here's the answer.

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Two days ago, I got a call at midnight from an old acquaintance who wanted to know "How do I get the bar down from up the side?"

Yes, a computer question - "How do I get the XP taskbar back down the bottom of the screen?". Not a difficult challenge, though it did require explaining that you don't need to install "Dragon Drop" to drag-and-drop.

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Yesterday, a call to ask "Why isn't my orange dong connecting?"

Why indeed? In the past I've been asked about "the donkey driver for my bluetooth phone", but this time it was a USB donkey for wireless internetting - courtesy of Orange telecommunications.

It started working on its own a few hours later. Apparently "the internet must've gone down for a few hours".

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This morning...a call from someone I didn't immediately recognise. The school I worked for a year ago - the school that last month called me up to ask about "burning cassettes onto CD" - their accountant, a man with who I'd had three brief conversations.

He's working somewhere else now - a place that'd received an email attachment in a hitherto unknown format. So could I please advise him what program could read it?

I was actually offered payment for this one, but on this occasion declined. The pleasure of figuring out that someone had tried to email a corrupted .DLL file disguised as an MS Works text document was enough - though if you wanted to know why anyone would do such a bizarre thing, that investigation would come with a handsome price tag.

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