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MS Word is evil, and built for stupid people.
I know that this is scarcely news, but it was borne upon me with particular force as I was attempting to print something this evening. It refused.
It turns out that Word now prints not the relevant page of a document, but the relevant page number, when these are different. In other words, it's too smart for its own good. gr. And yet, they've eliminated the feature that lets you print "odd pages only". This is PARTICULARLY frustrating when you have to type in "133, 135, 137..." instead of "1,3,5,7...".
The bloody animated paperclip really is the perfect symbol, in'it? Annoying as f-, designed for complete morons, too smart for its own good, but too dumb to be anything but bloody useless.
< breathe >
In other news, the reason I was printing out pages 135-63 of something, double-sided, was that I FINALLY finished this dissertation chapter! Though I'm not very happy with it, and the conclusion is really badly written. I worry that I seem to be getting stupider... oh well, hopefully my advisor will have some advice on improvement. Anyway, it's done. I can go on leave with a clear conscience.
I seem to be going on a major Barenaked Ladies "New Kid" jag.
Though it keeps turning in my head into "Though I may not be Yo-yang' Se-wa-tang' Wa'ch..." ;)
I know that this is scarcely news, but it was borne upon me with particular force as I was attempting to print something this evening. It refused.
It turns out that Word now prints not the relevant page of a document, but the relevant page number, when these are different. In other words, it's too smart for its own good. gr. And yet, they've eliminated the feature that lets you print "odd pages only". This is PARTICULARLY frustrating when you have to type in "133, 135, 137..." instead of "1,3,5,7...".
The bloody animated paperclip really is the perfect symbol, in'it? Annoying as f-, designed for complete morons, too smart for its own good, but too dumb to be anything but bloody useless.
< breathe >
In other news, the reason I was printing out pages 135-63 of something, double-sided, was that I FINALLY finished this dissertation chapter! Though I'm not very happy with it, and the conclusion is really badly written. I worry that I seem to be getting stupider... oh well, hopefully my advisor will have some advice on improvement. Anyway, it's done. I can go on leave with a clear conscience.
I seem to be going on a major Barenaked Ladies "New Kid" jag.
Though it keeps turning in my head into "Though I may not be Yo-yang' Se-wa-tang' Wa'ch..." ;)
