The New Hobbit Hole

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Say, two of those frumpy old men look like frumpy old women....

[Corin Stormhands]

Her: But how do I get them out of Wordperfect?
Me: [whack!]

Remember me whining a few weeks ago about a project that my supervisor didn't want me just entering electronically? Anyway, his fear is that we'll lose everything, since he lost all of his WordPerfect files when we converted to Word.

Yes, I have all of mine cause I paid attention...

[Corin Stormhands]

"Hi everybody! I'm ok!" - LCS ;^)

Hurry Back LCS!!!

Thanks ksen for following up. That's one more we can stop worrying about.

Now, just when does the stinky dwarf come back? You know, he kinda grows on you.

Like that green stuff in the back of the fridge...

[HairOfTheDog]

LOL! - His files were trapped "IN" Wordperfect?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Stupid user story:

A week ago, one of my fellow system admins sent out a company-wide email warning everyone that the Lotus Notes server would be down yesterday morning for an upgrade. Another email was sent out the day before, reminding everyone that the server would be down the next day. That morning, sure enough, the helpdesk was flooded with calls from users complaining that they couldn't get to the Notes server.

My rhetorical question was, why did they care about getting to the email server, since they obviously didn't read their email....

[Corin Stormhands]

Moi? Frumpy?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

His last post said he would be back in October, which would make it next week at the earliest.

[HairOfTheDog]

Some of the other plants in the state did become operational! But they still changed the name... After the mismanagement debacle, people had no faith in WhooPPSS!

So they changed it from "Washington Public Power Supply System" to "Energy Northwest".

[Corin Stormhands]

He could never "find" them once we converted. I'm not making this up.

I'm legally required to post notices of meetings. So I do it through a web site (it's a long story). But ANYONE who wants to be notified just has to go to that web site and they can sign up to be notified by email. But still, when the printed notice comes back, I have to mark the important ones and have the secretary has to photocopy and distribute them because "the email won't meet the notification requirements."

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

hehe, my apologies to Miss Piggy... although a straw hat and blue turtleneck sweater isn't the most, uhm, glamorous of outfits!

[Corin Stormhands]

people had no faith in WhooPPSS!

That's like when Congress was creating the Department of Education. I think it was Jesse Helms that put in the amendment to name it the "Department of Public Education" or...D.O.P.E.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

So they changed it from "Washington Public Power Supply System" to "Energy Northwest".

Did they by any chance have an exclamation mark in the name, as in "Energy! Northwest" ?

[Corin Stormhands]

My favorite thing I've ever seen Miss Piggy do was on the Oscars the year "The Muppet Movie" came out. There was a lot of discussion about nominating Miss Piggy for the Oscar. Of course the Hollyweird women threw a fit.

But she came on to present an award at the ceremony, looked at Johnny Carson and screamed, "It's because I'm a PIG, isn't it?"

[HairOfTheDog]

He could never "find" them once we converted. I'm not making this up.

I completely believe you! After trying for days to help this poor woman "find" her files, I gave up.... I had other people to worry about... But I would walk by her office, where she had both the old computer and the new computer on, and was reading a letter from one moniter and retyping it on the new computer... I did a couple doubletakes, but in the end, I let her go. If I got too close to her, she would only complain that she couldn't "view the codes" or whatever WP people called that view where they could see what looked a lot like html formatting. WYSIWYG was not popular with her. What could I do?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

But she came on to present an award at the ceremony, looked at Johnny Carson and screamed, "It's because I'm a PIG, isn't it?"

I think I remember that happening... but at the time, I had no idea what she was talking about!

[HairOfTheDog]

Did they by any chance have an exclamation mark in the name, as in "Energy! Northwest" ?

I don't they they allow any exclamation points, or any punctuation that is not calm and soothing.

[Corin Stormhands]

There really is little you can do. Our PR department has management convinced that everything they do in HTML or for printing purposes takes WEEKS to put together.

It annoys the heck out of me. When I worked in DC ten years ago, I was using Pagemaker to do the layout on all of our pr materials to promote our annual meetings. That included a 70 page program guide. I'd put it on a disk and give it to the printer with the photos.

But I did it ALL by myself. And I'm no HTML wiz by any stretch. But it doesn't take as long as they say it does...

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I was a very heavy user of WordPerfect back in the early 90's, and loved the code-view feature. The first version of WordPerfect for Windows would let you toggle that feature... but the program was otherwise very buggy and not very good. It wound up killing the company.

I think the lack of "code-view" in MS Word is why I was never comfortable using the program (and I'm still not comfortable using it.) I do very good with HTML coding, though. ;)

[Corin Stormhands]

Well, goodnite all. I was getting a little excited about hitting post 27777 until I realized that's another hundred or so posts...

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I think that's a sign it's time for bed. :) Have a good night!