Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
25 04 2005
My God do these programs suck! They make each other crash - I don't know how/why. They hog the CPU and RAM like something, well, from the Microsoft stable of products? I estimate I am wasting up to 2 hours a day due to these products crashing and losing my work on a regular (hourly, or more frequent at times) basis. I am doing a significant amount of cutting and pasting between the two apps - but still... Do Microsoft have no QA? The levels of instability of these products belies belief.
Once again, I have opened Visio while editing a Word document - and it managed to take both itself and Word out. Completely! It also managed to use all my CPU until a three finger salute, wait for screen to redraw itself, select the processes, click [End Task]. Visio now crashes itself EVERY time I paste anything from it into Word. It does (at least) complete the paste operation, which is something, I guess... Though I do then have to save the Word document and restart Word to ensure that Word doesn't crash itself a few minutes later. This is not the Utopian computing experience I aspire to...
If I had any choice in the matter, I would not use either of these tools for anything. The levels of frustration they have driven me to over the past few weeks (I've been predominantly writing up my design work for a software project, readying it for implementation) is immense. I have no choice in the matter, since these are the chosen tools of my workplace. If you have any say in the matter, just say no. I know there are alternatives to Word - not really looked into a Visio alternative yet - but rest assured I will. Microsoft Word and Visio are appalling.
I will finish this rant by saying that should anyone from Microsoft read this and care to comment on it to me, preferably with some solution for the ongoing pain I am having with these two products, please do drop me a line at bigbro-at-signal2noise-dot-co-dot-uk.
posted at: 23:36 | path: /technical | permanent link to this entry
I've finally given into pressure and managed to overcome my extreme laziness and made a little script that generates thumbnails for my gallery postings. I'll backport the existing gallery postings to use the generated thumbnails over the next couple of days, but I'm pretty busy at the moment so it may take some time.
I've also created a blog for The Priestley so hopefully there will be some photos and stuff there soon. URL for the blog will be released shortly.
posted at: 14:37 | path: /gallery | permanent link to this entry
