I'm definitely tired but I have to excavate myself from all the paperwork I strewed on the bed. Happy lecture-listening, Nilly! Good luck on resurrecting the report, bon bon. Bon soir, tout!
You know what they say about payback? Well I'm the bitch.
Fred ,'Life of the Party'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Spidra Webster - Mar 19, 2006 10:29:24 pm PST #4999 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
billytea - Mar 19, 2006 10:57:10 pm PST #5000 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
It's my office computer. It says Excel 2000 "9.06926926 SP-3"
Ok, in Excel 2000 I think it's more convoluted. If you select Tools -> Add-Ins, there should be an Autosave Add-In check box. Select that and add it in. Then, when you go to your Tools menu, there should be an Autosave option. Note, in Excel 2000, it doesn't create back-ups, it just saves your file regularly.
Not that this helps you much now, but hopefully it can stop it happening again at least.
bon bon - Mar 19, 2006 11:03:41 pm PST #5001 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Thanks for the tip, bt. I have it in now...I think. Needless to say, a hidden uninstalled autosave is entirely stupid. This doesn't reach the stupid of not prompting when you close a worksheet unintentionally, though.
At least I had the partner who heads the technology committee try to save my document at 2 this morning. Perhaps he'll be convinced to upgrade, although as far as he's concerned, every piece of software we use "sucks." Then why do you authorize it, jackhole.
Were you able to recover any of the work?
I guess ironically I closed it because I was in another sheet trying to figure out a trick to make the data entry faster. So at least I had learned that trick. But it'll take another couple hours to enter everything in again.
billytea - Mar 19, 2006 11:21:14 pm PST #5002 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Thanks for the tip, bt. I have it in now...I think. Needless to say, a hidden uninstalled autosave is entirely stupid.
Yup. It seems Microsoft recognised this too, it's become easier in the later versions.
sarameg - Mar 20, 2006 4:14:33 am PST #5003 of 10001
I am not getting a cold. Just because I've got that weird burning in my nose and I was around a sick toddler this weekend does not mean I am getting a cold. It does not.
msbelle reminded me I really need to trim the cats' claws. Soon. Sorry, sweetie.
tommyrot - Mar 20, 2006 4:23:20 am PST #5004 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Why am I earwormed with "Afternoon Delight"? Because right now it's morning, and even if it were the afternoon, I have no baby who I could find and hold tight....
tommyrot - Mar 20, 2006 4:26:34 am PST #5005 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This is Sad and Wrong:
An exasperated father has discovered to his cost that cyberspace is not the ideal arena for family feuds. Two weeks ago Steve Williams became so fed up with his daughter's messy bedroom that he built a website featuring pictures of his slothful offspring's lair in an attempt to shame her into action.
But the public humiliation proved a short-lived victory. While it did spur his daughter, Claire, into tidying up her room, it also whet her appetite for revenge. With the help of her father's friends, the 20-year-old business student has now set up a rival website that displays photos of him in a variety of compromising situations.
"All my friends feel sorry for Claire so they're ganging up on me," said Mr Williams, of Whitehaven, Cumbria. "They've managed to dig out photos of me drunk and dancing round with a handbag at a party, and also put pictures of my garage on to show it's not just Claire who's untidy.
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Mr Williams' site, www.shameit.com, has proved hugely popular with disgruntled families from all over the world. Nearly 40,000 people have visited the site in its first fortnight.
Cashmere - Mar 20, 2006 4:31:44 am PST #5006 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
A friend of mine in high school had such a filthy bedroom that her mother would periodically go in while she was at school, bag literally EVERYTHING (dirty clothes, dishes, tapes, shoes, etc.) up in big, green plastic garbage bags and lock them in the truck of her car. My friend would have to buy the bags back at $5 per bag, one at a time, until she put everything in them away.
DXMachina - Mar 20, 2006 4:33:30 am PST #5007 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Religious beliefs of comic book superheros
Heh.
J. Jonah Jameson. religious affiliation: hates Spider-Man
It's funny because it's true.
Calli - Mar 20, 2006 5:02:41 am PST #5008 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My friend would have to buy the bags back at $5 per bag, one at a time, until she put everything in them away.
Excellent plan. I once heaped my roommates' phenomenal piles of crap up in front of their doors while they were sleeping. They had to deal with it before they could get to the bathroom in the morning. Things got neater after that. The lesson? Don't piss off the one morning person in the household.