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Pet Peeves
I just bought myself a new computer and reinstalling all of the software is one of those activities that I don’t particularly enjoy but I can live with that. What I find incredibly annoying is that a new computer and freshly downloaded antivirus software (direct from the manufacturers site) required almost 3 GB of updates. [...]
I Wonder Why
HSE has become an important part of life in the oil exploration business but I have often wondered why it is that many of the HSE people seem to have things backward. Instead of looking at crews that get through without any HSE incidents the HSE people concern themselves with why accidents happen. Seismic exploration [...]
Spending Your Way Out of Trouble
The world’s financial problems came about by having a government push financial institutions into providing home mortgages to people who would not be allowed to hold a credit card in a third world country. These mortgages were invested in by a wide range of outside companies without anything approaching due diligence. These companies include insurance [...]
Great Service From Amazon.com
A recent experience with Amazon’s service people has left me smiling. Generally I have rather low expectations for service from online sellers but this was one occasion when the service was genuinely excellent. I had ordered some books and had them sent to my address in Indonesia using the cheapest method, which has worked okay [...]
Nokia E71
My all-time favourite mobile phone was my old Sony Ericsson P910i but SE’s later phones just don’t match up in features or ease of use. I replaced the P910i with a Nokia E61i after the scroll wheel got wrecked by an idiot in airport security in Jakarta knocked the phone off the scanner in his [...]
Microsoft Office 2007
I have been using Microsoft’s 2007 version of their office suite for a little over six months now and while i have managed to become accustomed to some parts of the “ribbon” there are other parts where it is sheer torture to use for anybody with a good working knowledge of the older version. One [...]
Will it break $100.00 this year?
Technorati Tags: oil prices , Turkey , Kurdish separatists The title is referring to the price of oil. At $90.00 per barrel as this is being written it would be foolish to bet against it. With the turmoil in the Middle East being added to by the Turkish government’s decision to pursue Kurdish separatists into [...]
Thirty reasons women have things easier than men
1. They got off the Titanic first. 2. They get to flirt with systems support men who always return their calls, and are nice to them when they blow up their computers. 3. Their boyfriend’s clothes make them look elfin & gorgeous. Guys look like complete idiots in theirs. 4. They can be groupies. Male [...]
Things you may not have known
Technorati Tags: strange facts , human body The human body contains enough phosphorus to make the heads of 200 matches, enough fat for seven bars of soap, and enough iron to make one nail. The human body has over 45 miles of nerves. The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body’s weight. [...]
Personnel department computer system
Technorati Tags: personnel department , personnel shortage , computerized systems While on a crew run by one of the biggest name seismic outfits recently I was surprised to hear that one of the staff had been bid for multiple jobs at the same time. Bidding in this manner is not unusual but what is highly [...]
Fur flies over Miss Universe
Technorati Tags: PETA , animal rights , Miss Universe PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and some of the other raving loony animal rights types are campaigning to get the reigning Miss Universe, Japan’s Riyo Mori, to stop wearing animal furs by accusing her of promoting cruelty. Ms Mori, 20, a ballerina by [...]
Office 2007
To those who are using company computers the issue of upgrading to Microsoft Office 2007 may not be in your near future, especially as larger companies are not climbing over each other to upgrade. I recently bought a new Dell to replace the IBM ThinkPad that I complained about in a recent post and decided [...]
