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Cretification and Incompatible Mousemats
Microsoft have sent me some certificates. Apparently I am now a Technical Specialist in, among other things, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2003. Now, I know nothing about the former, and the latter doesn't even exist, so I felt the need to complain. After an exchange of emails, corrected certificates are on their way. In the process, though, I've discovered a new Freudian slip: my mind insists on typing "Microsoft Cretification". Am I trying to tell myself something?
Meanwhile, this week's course was plagued by problems with the mouse behaviour in Virtual PC: the mouse pointer kept jumping round the screen at random. After a while, we tracked it down to the effect of the company's old shiny starburst-design mousemats on the new optical mice. And so I had to go and tell our facilities people that our mousemats were incompatible and needed replacing...
Meanwhile, this week's course was plagued by problems with the mouse behaviour in Virtual PC: the mouse pointer kept jumping round the screen at random. After a while, we tracked it down to the effect of the company's old shiny starburst-design mousemats on the new optical mice. And so I had to go and tell our facilities people that our mousemats were incompatible and needed replacing...
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