did I mention how much I HATE VISTA!

We hae 2 microscopes in our house, one is the Intel Play which requires a PC in order to function and the other is one from Lidl which will work on it’s own but obviously if you can play with the images on a PC it’s much more fun.  Aprilia found a bit of butterfly wing this morning (our Might Hunter being rather too adept at catching butterflys if a little crap at catching mice!) and wanted to look at it.  She finds focusing down the normal microscope a bit too hard (it is a bit of a skill) and anyway, we really needed the facility to light from the top as it’s too thick for light to really shine through properly so I said I’d install the Play on my PC and we could have a good look.  There is no Vista Driver for it and not only that, it won’t install in “incompatible mode” (and yes I know that’s not its real name but I do feel it’s closer to the truth)  So that will need installing on the one remaining “old fashioned” XP machine in the house but never mind thought I, you can top light the normal microscope and that does come with a connector to run through the PC too, I’ll install taht shall I?  No I won’t cos taht won’t run in Vista either.

So that’s my Palm PDA, my camera dock, my old scanner, most of her games…. I know it will get better in time but what the **** is wrong with actually releasing a product that works properly straight away for goodness sake!!!

who on earth text messages home phones?????

cos when I find out who it is I’m gonna wring their neck….

picture the scene… It’s just past 7:30 am, the time your other half goes off to work. You’ve had a disturbed night with a small sad child (who had a bad dream) and then struggled to get back to sleep because of a husband who doesn’t quite understand the concept of early nights and who snores like a freight train when he’s too tired. The phone rings and you shoot out of bed like a scalded cat thinking that any phone call this early in the morning has got to be an emergency (cos even your mother in law doesn’t phone this early….) You pick it up to hear some metallic voice telling you that you have a text message, reels off the number it’s from too quickly for most of it to register with your half asleep brain (not that I can recognise mobile phone numbers but at least if it had been slower I may have been able to scrawl it on a bit of paper) and then reads out the text which is from someone wanting a phone number off Other Half. And then, to cap it all, even though I hit the save button not the delete button, the damned thing didn’t save so I can’t even play it back to attempt to write the sodding phone number down

I do not condiser this to be a good start to a morning you know.