Nik lives in Essex, UK and works in London as the editor of MacUser magazine. The posts and comments on this site do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions of values of his employers.
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I’ve just finished installing Windows XP and it feels like I’m using a whole new computer. Everything is rounded, and the buttons and title-bars are pretty new colours. I’m rather taken by it all, actually - but then I’m superficial like that.
I did an enormous backup of all my important stuff before starting out, and read all the warnings with the kind of concern I haven’t had for ages. In the end nothing happened, though. It plodded through the installation screens on its own for an hour while I cut my hair, and by the time I’d finished, it had too. I did pop in now and then to check on it and came across a nasty sentence in one of those screens you’re supposed to read while it’s loading…
“If you’ve had a computer for a while, you’ve probably gotten it set up the way you like.”
Eurrgggh.
Fortunately the grammar in the product itself seems a lot better. So far. It doesn’t seem to be too keen on collecting my emails, though.
I went back to the gym for the first time since the break this morning - that was difficult. It’s amazing what a three week gap does to you. I would have been back last week if it hadn’t been for my cold. In the excitement (confusion) of it all I left my work bag at home, though, so had to come back through the rush-hour traffic and then crawl all the way across town to the station again. I arrived just in time to catch a delayed train that sat around at Ingatestone with its doors open, catching the drizzle until the signal let us move. It was a broken track circuit today - something like that - I’m not so good on my railway terminology.
Coming home was much better. I don’t think I’ve ever been down that line so fast. We made Chelmsford in record time so I went to Sainsbury’s to stock up my freshly reorganised cupboards which now have a lot of empty space in them. It’s amazing what lining up your bean cans can do…
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