briarwood: Supernatural: Impala in Snow (SPN ImpalaSnow)
Morgan Briarwood ([personal profile] briarwood) wrote2009-02-05 07:50 am

Good news, bad news...

Good news...despite the scary severe weather warnings, I woke to find barely a centimetre of snow had fallen overnight. That said, it's still snowing, if only lightly, so I guess it could get worse through the day.

Bad news...I was supposed to be at a big meeting in our other office today, but this has been cancelled due to the snow. The meeting is to be rescheduled for May: what do you want to bet they'll pick Asylum week so I can't go? (To the meeting, not Asylum; nothing is keeping me from the con!)

Good news...having given me a delivery date of 23rd Feb, Dell's order status system now says my order is "preparing for delivery". Does that take two weeks? Or can I expect my snazzy new PC even sooner? (Either way, it's still good news. What? I'm a nerd and proud of it.)

Two good, one bad. That's a good score :-)

Can anyone recommend a good (free or cheap) WYSIWYG web editor (for Windows)? I am determined not to let MS Office near my new PC but Front Page is the one thing I don't have an alternative for. I use AceHTML for raw coding but its WYSIWYG is pretty clunky.

ETA: I just realised, I don't have a name for my new computer!

Names are terribly important. I mean, I try not to anthropomorphise machines but look at my track record:

  • My first PC was a second-hand machine. I called it HAL. It would never, ever do what I wanted without much wheedling.

  • My second PC was named by someone else: London. It got the plague and died.

  • My iMac was called Methos. It was great (and still works, if only for the occasional game) but wasn't as useful as I hoped. He got irritated with me too easily.

  • My current PC is named Xena: I hoped that would be a better omen. She has served me heroically for many years but has ceased to kick ass.

  • My last laptop I named JohnWinchester. The damned thing died on me right when I needed it most.


I need a really super-butt-kicking-badass name for the new one.

[identity profile] howlsthunder.livejournal.com 2009-02-06 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh, yeah, I really don't remember what I was thinking when I named it that. I think because it was my "alternate" backup/boot drive: alternate=alty or "Alti". 6 years for her, though! *Knocks on wood*