JB's Blog

Recently I’ve had to switch a company from Thunderbird to Outlook due to interoperation with other company Calendar issues… The process has reminded me why I hate Outlook so much. Sure – feature wise you can’t beat the thing for whiz bang ‘all-in-one-do-everything-for-me-and-remind-me-to-make-coffee’ program, sure – you can’t beat it.

I hate Outlook because I have to support it. Supporting it means I have to fix niggling everyday issues like oh-so common ‘my inbox has frozen, should I reboot?’, or my favourite ‘i can attach a file but when I send it strips the attachment problem’

The consquence of this is that my stress levels at work has risen from 50% to 200% and soon I will have to invest in more black hair dye to cover up my grey spots.
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Last weekend Carsy and I headed off to her cousin’s dress up party. The theme was G&S, and being the hip and happen gamers we are, we chose Super Mario and Super Princess Peach (yes there is a Super princess peach).
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It was definately a fun party! We had quite a few people ask us exactly who we were, which was no problem with me screamin “It’s a meee, Mario!”.
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Mario was of course thirsty and had to make sure his moustache wasn’t getting too messed up from the refreshments.
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Carsy made a fantastic Princess (as if she isn’t one already), Peach would have approved!
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I even had comments from some people who had seen the costumes on the ‘net that said we looked even better then the models who demo’d them.
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Was a fantastic party and by the end of the night Mario rescued the Princess and drove her back to the Mushroom Kingdom whistling that famous tune on the way…