Blog of the Chief Nerd

Spent this morning at Jake’s school this morning. They were having a “Bring a Grown-up to School” day.

Bit of a change from my day, I left school in 1979, and we had blackboards and chalk, and the ‘computer’ was a teletype machine in a room under the stairs connected to a mainframe in the local college. The Deputy Head flounced around the school in the traditional black gown and you had to stand up when a member of staff entered the room.

Now they have ‘interactive whiteboards”, basically a laptop attached to a projector which displays the image onto a whiteboard. There is also a scanner with which the teacher can scan pupils work and display it on the screen for the rest of the class to see.

I now feel very, very old!

As a part of the ‘life changes’ (some would call it a mid-life crisis!) I’m going through at the moment, I have grown a beard. My sister saw it for the first time yesterday and said that it suited me.

When I told Debby she said that it hid my double chin…………………………. thanks dear!

Well the Big Brother people have really excelled themselves this time. I’ve never seen such a collection of nutters!

Good job they’ve fitted the diary room out as a padded cell!

I recently ordered online a £400 piece of computer equipment. Having checked my online credit card statement I confirmed that the payment had been made 10 days ago.

Having only had the original order confirmation, I contacted the supplier to see where my order was. To their credit they responded quickly, but with a rather curt message saying that they had already sent me an email to say that they were waiting for more stock to come in from Canada and it would be another week.

I checked my emails, I even checked the junk email folder…… nothing, so I don’t know who they emailed, but it wasn’t me!

Anyway, my point is, if someone orders goods from you, and you can’t supply immediately, wouldn’t it be good practice to wait until you can fulfil the order before charging the customer’s credit card? Perhaps as a new businessman I need to look to getting rid of my morals!

Hmm………. on further examination, I’ve changed my mind. It keeps crashing - still it is Beta I guess, maybe I should wait until SP1!

I’ve been taking a look at the Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7.

It looks pretty good, it’s fast, the interface is clean, and supports the nice little touches like tabbed browsing.

Sad thing is, Firefox had all that ages ago!

It remains to be seen how it fares on a security basis……..

It’s reportedly going to be the hottest day of the year today.

Thanks to my new-found self-employed status, I’m sat here in a t-shirt, shorts and sandals. I think I’m going to enjoy working for myself……….if only I could find some customers!

Well I’ve been offered one of these free blog thingies, I have every confidence that mine, like most, will have a few boring entries, becoming less and less frequent, until it becomes abandoned completely, but at least I can say that I’ve tried.