Re: Ho hum :o(

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On Jan 27, 3:59 pm, Mandy <mandy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mandy <mandy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:3KYmj.30549$xm1.21653
@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk:

Hiya everyone

I don't know why, but I'm on the verge of tears again!  Nothing has
happened to make me feel tearful, I've just been gloomy since I woke up!

How do you stop feeling gloomy and tearful?

You can safely ignore this message now... after half a box of Roses I feel
fine!  :o)

Hope you're still feeling fine this morning.

I'm just catching up with yesterday's posts - there are zillions of
them.

I sympathise with your dislike of phones - they're my least favourite
mode of communication too. I like to see people's faces and body
language when we're talking, and I always seem to forget something
important that I meant to say, leaving me with the dilemma of whether
to ring back. Also I've had some pretty horrific experiences with
Indian call centres :(

Sorry to pollute this thread with computer-related stuff, but it's
quicker and easier for me to tack stuff on here.

John Lewis staff are generally pretty good, but they'd be more useful
to you if you wanted advice between a Mac and a PC. They don't sell as
many different Macs as Apple shops and they won't know as much about
them. However, if you're on a very limited budget, they're a useful
place to buy display models at bargain prices - they might have the
odd scratch of fingerprint but they'll be cheap and come with a full
guarantee.

PC World staff are singularly useless. Their policy used to be that
customers didn't like the sales staff to appear as smartarses, so they
didn't bother to train them. That policy has changed, but it's
difficult to change the culture.
As an example, I heard a sales assistant tell a customer that one PC
was twice as fast as another because the hard disk was twice as big.
(If comparing like with like, the PC with the bigger disc would be
slower because it would take longer to retrieve information from the
disk).

I've never been in an Apple shop, but they're staffed by sales people
who have an agenda to sell you what they want to sell.

A good approach might be to track down a computer publication doing a
comparison test of the models you're interested in and use that
information to make a choice, but check with the Mac groups that the
information is not contradicted by real life experience.

When checking your website(s) on different machines, don't be fooled
by browser version numbers. What looks good on one machine might well
not look so good on another, things might appear in different places
and even be missing (although they are usually 'there' but hidden
under something else when things get rendered in a different order).

At the end of the day, if your website(s) only look good in IE7,
you've plenty of company. A household-name FT 100 company, which does
approximately a quarter of its business over the internet, revamped
its website last year. I reported that their site had problems when
using Mozilla/Netscape and IE6. Their reply was that IE7 was the only
browser they were supporting.

Evil Nigel
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