Yeh
Despite my portrayal of myself as Cat, I half-figured that's the kind
of thing they meant.
I haven't recovered from generating code out of MSWord and finding it
added code to web pages that only Microsoft software understands and
that generates errors elsewhereI discovered Bing last year in Chicago
airport. That's around the time the free email machine asked for
money.
I assumed that Bing was named after Bing Crosby for his quality of
being a corpse. It certainly didn't find what I wanted -- the phone
number of a specific hotel in Buffalo... hardly a difficult search
concept
Apparently Janet, as in joint academic network, has given its soul to
Microsoft. In line with EU I am told.#I appear to have been
reconnected to my ac.uk account today by those who apologise for any
inconvenience for a month of chaos; and I have mugged up a lot of this
to survive
I may stay on gmail and use that account minimally
As I investigated the odd piece of junk they expect us to use and that
janet and eu has endorsed, it popped up and said "Your presence
couldn't be changed. Please try later"
It's Babel all over again
Thanks Dominic. You've confirmed my suspicions.
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
To:
Cc:
Sent:Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:56:18 +0100
Subject:Re: Meaningless words
Silverlight is Microsoft's attempt to produce a rival to Flash. In
Microsoft-world it's considered a big deal; outside of that
echo-chamber, a big joke. Like their search engine, Bing. Both
technologies are probably quite good as such things go. But the world
has no pressing need of either, and it's not as easy as it used to be
for Microsoft tot use its monopoly power to make everyone use them
anyway. Google, on the other hand...
D
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Lawrence Upton
wrote:
>
>
> Dear Patrick
>
> P ps what was this 'sensible work?' did it involve cups of tea
> and computer games ??love letters?? We need to know!!!
>
> You do not need to know, Patrick; but I shall tell you.
>
> No love letters, unfortunately.
>
> I'm going to sit right down and write myself a letter.
>
> I dislike computer games.
>
> It involved coffee, yes. I was writing an addition to a talk of
> yesteryear which is about to be published.
>
> OK?
>
> Jolly good. Carry on then
>
>
>
> L
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 19 October 2012 12:51
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Meaningless words
>
> I have been thinking recently about the process whereby the
language
> is being emptied of denotation. It's not new. I was brought up (to
use
> an appropriate phrase) with all sorts of nonsense in Latin which
> sounds shallower to me in the post Vatican 2 English... The use of
an
> artificial language gave it an a tone of gravity
>
> Politicians do it. For all I know even bees and overeducated fleas
> may do it -- if I have not garbled the song.
>
> But there has been an acceleration and expansion of the process
> whereby the only difference between us and those in the region of
the
> Tower of Babel is that they noticed.
>
> This morning I found the following on the MicroSoft website. (I had
> been interrupted in sensible work by an MS advert of some kind for
> Silverlight and I don't what it is)
>
> Silverlight is a powerful development tool for creating engaging,
> interactive user experiences for Web and mobile applications.
> Silverlight is a free plug-in, powered by the .NET framework and
> compatible with multiple browsers, devices and operating systems,
> bringing a new level of interactivity wherever the Web works.
>
> I don't know if you are familiar with the TV series Red Dwarf but
> some decades ago I saw an episode in which Cat sees something odd
and
> asks:
> What is it? The others tell him and he asks: What is it? And on...
>
> My suspicion is that I don't need Silverlight.
>
> Q What's an html editor? A It helps you write html without the
> hassles that follow from using a word processor.
>
> Got it.
>
> Q What's silverlight?
>
> A. Sounds of the morning trumpet
>
> ttfn
>
> L
>
--
Shall we be pure or impure? Today
we shall be very pure. It must always
be possible to contain
impurities in a pure way.
--Tarmo Uustalu and Varmo Vene
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