I fought the HelpDesk... And I won...

I managed to out fix the IT fixers at work today.

One of the main applications I use to do my day to day work decided on Monday that it had had enought, coughed, spluttered and the just spat out a load of hexidecimal memory addresses and refused to open.

IT department stock answer to the problem. Rebuild the PC. No joy. A few personlised setting removed from the computer, nae bother.

I found it didn't matter which PC I logged into, same problem! IT answer. Reset my network profile. No Joy. Every setting I'd ever used on the machine/network and entire company, wiped. Ach well, start clean slate.

I feel quite virtuous in that I managed to steal a folder from some who's was working, paste it into my machine, re-install the application over the top of it and hey presto. Productivity returns.

Just need to go back and set everything back the way I like it.

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Other unrelated news. I just realized 2 rather neat things today.

1) My website has a wee blether blog type thing I forgot about which documents the dates of some of the pictures I've got on there. I could ArchiveBlip some stuff from my pre-digital days.
2) The new version of GoogleMaps on my phone seems less reliant on internet connection and seems to fetch GPS coordinates an awful lot more efficiently.