http://pcuser.rticlz.com I Love My PC But My PC Hates Me - I Will Win It Over Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:56:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just fell across this poor fellow's bizarre experience with his PC. After a number of odd events things culminated in this: "Then, yesterday, the king daddy of them all happened... It seems that Internet Explorer’s back button was causing my CD tray to pop open. Let me repeat: the BACK ... http://pcuser.rticlz.com/2007/11/08/i-am-not-alone/ The PC is working fine. In fact it is going so well that browsing the Internet is a real pleasure again. Trying out new applications is a breeze. The combination of enjoyable browsing and ease of trying out applications is, it seems, a poisonous mixture with a very sweet taste. My ... http://pcuser.rticlz.com/2007/11/01/so-subtle-poisoned-by-sweeties/ This morning I had a gift for my PC. You see, we've been talking though the gap between us recently and we've decided to give things another go. Maybe we were a little hasty and just being too inward looking; so I decided to buy a special gift. And what better than ... http://pcuser.rticlz.com/2007/10/03/surgery-time/ Just been reading about the way Apple are punishing naughty users of their iPhone for daring to make it work with other service providers than the one Apple dictate shall be used.  A quote from an Apple source said something like "... if a user has hacked their iPhone and now it ... http://pcuser.rticlz.com/2007/10/01/glad-im-not-an-apple-customer/ I had hoped to pop the Google Talk box thing on the side bar but because it uses JavaScript WordPress won't allow it. Nevermind just go to http://www.google.com/talk/ and you'll soon be set up. http://pcuser.rticlz.com/2007/10/01/no-google-thing-box-sorry/ I was talking to a friend on Skype. We'd been chatting for about 20 minutes when my PC decided that enough was enough and promptly ended my side of the call (I could hear my friend talking clearly but they couldn't hear me). So, just in case the problem wasn't caused by my ... http://pcuser.rticlz.com/2007/10/01/my-pc-monitors-my-calls/ Serious topic, just getting into the subject - becoming very earnest and then... http://pcuser.rticlz.com/2007/09/27/an-excerpt-from-a-recent-recording/ Tuesday morning. The first day of a BIG project. Sit down at the PC and start up Microsoft Word. It crashes. It worked PERFECTLY yesterday, and for months before that. But now its crashed. My PC wants to know if I'd like to know why Word crashed. Well, yes, I would. ... http://pcuser.rticlz.com/2007/09/27/all-quiet-now-this/ The creepy voice in the last post is mine. Sorry about that! Well PC User is no longer silent. Only taken about 2 hours to work out how to upload audio to the blog. PC was, strangely, cooperative throughout. Is this a turning point? http://pcuser.rticlz.com/2007/09/24/the-voice-is-mine/ http://pcuser.rticlz.com/2007/09/24/my-pc-hates-me/