Quite an interesting read, the history of weblogs by Rebecca Blood.

I had to laugh. I was having a look at Blogger Code earlier today, I can’t remember where I saw the link but I ended up there. (Side note unless they are really cool, I hate quiz things like that). I had a brief look though and the last question made me laugh

Can anyone type your name into Google and find your blog? Would you just die (or be fired) if your boss read your blog? Does you mom leave comments on your site?

Why is this funny? well my boss did actually find the site, and he was one of the first people that I know of whom I had not told that did find it. Anyways it made me laugh, he nearly got e-mailed the link, but I figure he can just read about it here in the morning. 😉 Some people did know about it, I had told them (duh) not many in fact (in fact 1) as it wasn’t something I particularly wanted to be available to the office, I had been down that route before much earlier in the year, way back (thankfully long way) in version 1.0 (Feb of ’01) and well lets just say it was not a good thing. What’s changed, other than the layout that is….? Well, work has changed allot and is now a much better place to be, obviously those changes have had an affect on me aswell.

Side note: why in the hell is ‘as well’ two words? Damnit why not just ‘aswell’? | Note to the side of the side note ctrl + alt+ del wonderful tool, shame there is a need for it.

And on the side of that I met a friend for coffee the other night and we were talking about computers for some reason and she mentioned ctrl+alt+del. I remember the first time I ever heard of this, and yes to my eternal shame it was on a helpline and from Gateway 2000. About 5 years ago my parents bought a pc for the family and I set it up and got everything installed. I don’t remember what the problem was but I rang tech support sometime and the short story was I had to reinstall windows (95). Anyways during the call the pc locked up and the tech told me to hold control and alt and press delete once. Since then I have never looked back, but it has come back to haunt me so many times during my own stint in tech support. The line “hold control and alt (A-L-T) and press the delete key once. It was always easy to tell when the pressed it twice quickly by accident (and man did that happen alot) but there were times when someone had the same reaction I did and hopefully they learnt well from me. Those were really fun days, looking back of course. Ah nostalgia!