- I have a rotten headache. Again. Argh ( Read more... )

I have hit a brick wall and any help that can be offered would be gratefully appreciated. My Google-fu isn't up to the task, we have no reference books on Unix scripting here ("here's a card with basic Unix commands - have fun!"), my local library has no books on Unix scripting and I haven't got five days for Canada Post to lose deliver an Amazon ( Read more... )

Today was one of *those* days. One of the ones where you're rushing around trying to hit deadlines with dozens of things in the way and confusion abounding so that you feel as though you've run a marathon by the time you get home (half an hour late ( Read more... )

I consider myself fairly dextrous normally. I can certainly use menus on software and most websites, although there are a couple of sites that I struggle with on a good day. Graphics packages are fine, whether I'm using my track ball or my graphical tablet, and there aren't many computer-related tasks that I can't do ( Read more... )

I'm hoping that someone on my f-list may be able to help out with this ( Read more... )

This may be a long-shot, but ( Read more... )

It's Friday! Woo ( Read more... )

I am currently taking a break from glaring at VBA. It's doing silly things to me. Namely, the macro that I have written keeps stopping part way through with no debug error, no reason, it just stops. Completely. It worked fine yesterday and then I added an extra function. Except there's no reason I can see for it doing this stopping thing. I haven't ( Read more... )

In response to a question about how to get better requirements specifications from users on SlashDot (and the poster in question got rightly slammed for the nature of his little whine), a 20 step program was suggested:

Become an analyst and hire programmers

Well, it made me giggle :-)

I am a genius ( Read more... )