Got my new computer today – yeah!! The thing is that until I put all my stuff on it, it’s not that much fun!! The first impression was “eh… it’s huge and noisy!”. It seems like computer technology has gone downhill over the last 2 years, with machines much bigger but only slightly faster than 2002!

Anyway, so to work transferring all my files. Email and normal files are quite easy ( they just take a bit of time as I have 30 gigs of work files), but installing the software takes forever. And they make it soooo difficult to do! Please enter the serial number,; oh this is an upgrade so please install the old version first, then the new one; that’s not the serial number, please enter the authorisation codes; this software can only be installed from the original CD ( much faffing around trying to find out where there are!); please telephone to authorise this software. You pay your money for this software and they just make life hard for you! Meanwhile all the people who bought it off the back of a lorry are probably up and sailing by now. Hmmm. And the new mail security systems are stupid! With the default settings if the computer picks up a virus it just stops the mail transfer!! I get over 100 viruses a day, you can’t just stop at them, why not make the default “delete and move on”!!! I’ve got a degree in physics and run an internet company and there are a ton of new things I haven’t got a clue about, make no wonder your average person on the street is giving up on PCs left right and center. Anyway after hours of this I got bored and went to bed.