Friday, August 17, 2018

Labour-saving Devices

Why is it that getting a new PC inevitably entails days of annoyance and frustration porting across data and settings, installing software, and generally getting it all back to the way the old PC operated?

And why is it that no matter how good the built-in mechanisms for migrating all that stuff get, when it actually comes to it there is always some reason why you can't use them, or they don't quite work right, or they strategically omit the one thing that you absolutely have to have?

And why is it that having just gone through all of this with one PC, be it at work or at home, you then immediately start looking at all the other PCs you work with and start thinking, "Hmm, I quite fancy an upgrade..."

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#37: "White Knight, Black Swan", by David Gemmell (the new candidate for book of the year)
#38: "Up the Faraway Tree", by Enid Blyton (a book from The List)
#39: "Winnie the Pooh", by A.A. Milne (a book for Funsize; a book from The List)

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