Thanks, Vonnie. I will try to watch it at my mother's house someday.

It depends on the format. "Ordinary" is available as .rm, which plays in RealMedia, and .wmv, which plays in Windows Media Player. Having one of those applications would help. Also, you should probably tell Word not to try and open your video files. If you want more info on how to do that, I can meet you over in Buffistechnology.

Ah-ha. Never mind. It runs on a program I don't have and can't download because I do not have administrator privileges on my own computer here at work.

I SO. FUCKING. HATE. THIS. SYSTEM.

JZ, is your Window Media Player/Real Media Player the latest version? If you have an older version, you may need a... you know, uhm, a new codec or something technical-sounding thingy beyond my ken. If you use Window Media Player, I'd go here and download the latest version. Then you right click on the WMV version of the file on the vid page, save it on your computer, and just double-click on it and it should open. I think.

Edit: Aw. I'm sorry about that. You or Hec would probably have WMP at home, so it can wait. The vid has been up for a few weeks and likely will stay there a while longer.

Vonnie, you are so right about that last shot. Heartbreaking.

I have QuickTime and bunches of other Mac-based stuff, but no Media Player in any form, and I am not allowed to download anything except pdf docs and images from anywhere, ever. I can't even add one lousy font to my copy of Word. Hell, I can't even delete the friggin' huge memory-sucking skateboard and fighter pilot games that came preloaded on the hard drive, which I will never, ever play in this or any other lifetime, because I am not an administrator.

I can't even set my own preferences for viewing files on our server; the administrator likes icons rather than lists of docs, and so icons rather than lists of docs is what we all must live with, unless we manage to bribe him into coming to every individual user's individual computer, admin'ing in, resetting the individual preferences, and moving on to the next one.

If it weren't for the New Orleans decadent food and endless fabulous sex and the hot tubs and martinis and general bath of erotic romantic lovingness of it all, I'd say that going on my honeymoon was a horrid, horrid mistake. I fucking hate the new-and-improved network system I came back to just exactly that much. Hate.

If it weren't for the New Orleans decadent food and endless fabulous sex and the hot tubs and martinis and general bath of erotic romantic lovingness of it all, I'd say that going on my honeymoon was a horrid, horrid mistake. I fucking hate the new-and-improved network system I came back to just exactly that much. Hate.

Forget about the dumb system, and go concentrate on your wonderful "If" instead!

Oh, I don't and never could regret the honeymoon.

drifts into reverie

returns wreathed in smiles

But I do thoroughly despise the PTB taking advantage of that marvelous lush week in my life to take away my ugly but serviceable and highly personalized old workhorse and replace it with a bright shiny cog in a department-wide machine that reduces me to merely a logged-in user at a terminal. It's my space, my computer, and it cheeses me off no end that I can't so much as add a pretty calligraphy font to my version of Word without going cap-in-hand to beg the Big Important Crisis-Fixing Man for help.

They're all teeny little irksome issues, which means they will never be high priority for the big folks and will never, never be fixed. I miss my Rackham and Abbadon fonts. I miss Big Lou. I miss knowing what all the applications on my hard drive were and why they were there, and being able to spot an interloper and kill it dead without having to do the dance of bureaucracy to do it.

Also, I'd really like to see that Willow vid.

That's terrible jz -- I don't get why they want that level of control over things like -- how you view what documents are on your computer. So bizarre.

But I have so much more fun as Vortex! Damn.

But not as much fun as I do when I commit crimes pretending to by you. MWAH HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!