My laptop overheats a lot, and I have never gotten the mouse button situation fixed. Is there anything I could do myself, given that I'm not overly techy? (I googled the overheating situation, but couldn't actually find the fix.) Alternatively, how do I find a good PC repair place?
We'd be dead. Can't get paid if you're dead.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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Jesse - Apr 21, 2009 5:07:10 pm PDT #9778 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Toddson - Apr 22, 2009 3:34:12 am PDT #9779 of 25501
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Thanks for the advice everyone - I've been trying to formulate a way to put it.
Our site's content heavy - we're (I'm) hoping people will come for information, rather than the pretty. I just have to get these kids convinced that just because it exists, and looks cool, doesn't mean it's right for us. You kids! get offa my ... web site?
Theodosia - Apr 22, 2009 4:37:12 am PDT #9780 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
If you had some extra training money sitting around you could send them to a workshop on Graphics For The Web or something like that. Done right, they'd come back Full of Great Ideas.
Toddson - Apr 22, 2009 5:14:52 am PDT #9781 of 25501
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Thanks ... but (1) there's no money and (2) I'm afraid that if they get training they'll want Flash and animated GIFs and embedded movies.
Theodosia - Apr 22, 2009 5:29:57 am PDT #9782 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Obviously what you should do is fire their asses and hire me.
Yes, I'll use some Flash, but really, it WILL be tasteful. ::crosses fingers behind back::
Toddson - Apr 22, 2009 5:32:46 am PDT #9783 of 25501
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
tempting, so tempting ...
Theodosia - Apr 22, 2009 6:10:15 am PDT #9784 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
For posterity's sake, I should record your current tagline here:
The salary was good .... Better benefits packages. Matching 401(k)s. Your own death squad. What's not to like?
Toddson - Apr 22, 2009 6:13:41 am PDT #9785 of 25501
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
hee ... it struck me as amusing and I haven't replaced it for a while
§ ita § - Apr 22, 2009 6:48:37 am PDT #9786 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm getting an "underlying error." This is something for a repair shop, isn't it? Like I can afford this shit. Must prioritise.
Toddson - Apr 23, 2009 11:47:25 am PDT #9787 of 25501
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
The march of the ignorant continues! now with added percussion (for increased headache enhancement)!
They've got me doing mass e-mails through an online provider; I've been doing it for a while and have it pretty much down to a science. Got a new one today and when I kept asking for URLs for links (she'd sent me a Word document - with a half-page 300dpi image, oh yay, that had text linking to what she wanted ... seven of them). And she kept telling me to just click the link ... after explaining three times in conversation, plus ... however many times ... in e-mails, it turns out that she and her companion in crime have been cutting and pasting from Word. Which wouldn't be so terrible except (1) the provider has specifically told us not to do that and (2) the messages they compose have been generating complaints about being big enough to choke a mailbox.
She finally decided I was being either difficult or lazy, but went along with it.
oy ... kill me now