26.4.04

Long time no Blog ... two weeks since anyone was able to read my tripe. In that time I have worked long and hard for little reward and received a set back to my career aspirations. No doubt life will add another element either to cover that or not as the case may be. At long last I have reformatted my desktop hard disk and reclaimed the majority of the 40Gigabytes that had just about been lost. Although it took me the best part of a day to secure all email addresses, bookmarks, email messages and other personal files (for me and the family) and then reformat and reinstall the software, it should be worth it. Had a small blip where the blessed thing would only want to boot from the CD-ROM drive in spite of BIOS changes to the contrary; but a good night's sleep and a reading of a book on Windows XP sorted that out. Ab initio, setting up a network is a real breeze: let Windows find the network at installation time and it seems completely free of all stress and nerves. However, trying to access the host computer's Windows Explorer directories from the guest desktop didn't go smoothly yesterday. Reading from laptop to desktop, however, was easy. All users have now been banned from installing anything with my say so: anything I find that I don't like will be deleted immediately. That's for the benefit of young Master D who is guilty of the most massive transgressions in this direction. Mrs W adds about a Kb a day and little more, on average! DW