Spent yesterday trying to write a fire safety policy. Now this is not the most exciting thing in the world, but it managed to get me to the point of extreme rage. How? Bill Gates' Microsoft Office XP that's how. Every time I tried to make a numbered list Word(tm) decided that it would crash for no reason - or even better it would decide to start the numbering using a random digit. Gave up at this point and watched afternoon television on BBC2 - possibly even more soul destroying than fighting a losing battle with Microsoft "written by wankers" (tm) software.
I've just about had it with this stuff now. Most of the software has features I never knew I didn't want until I was unable to switch them off. I'm writing a letter - I don't need an animated dog to appear with a speech balloon "So you're writing a letter? Let me fuck it up for you", I don't need noises when I try to calculate weekly totals in a spreadsheet. What I want is software that works.
So what am I going to do? Simple. Use Firefox and Thunderbird for web browsing and email and convert word processing etc. to OpenOffice.
Squeaky (the giant rubber goth bat) says to remind you to send any unwanted lil' Goth Minxes to the headquarters of the Dark Adapted Eye empire at once.
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