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It is with much sadness that I discovered that Clippy is no more. Clippy was introduced into MS Office 97 and was in all later versions and in Office 2003 was not installed as default. Clippy is now no more part of MS Office 2007.

The probabally best remembered and famous piece of Clippy’s advice was once you have written and an address and then Dear, Clippy would pop up and “It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?”.

How with such helpful advice can Clippy ever be replaced?

For those who will miss Clippy here is your very own Clippy quote creator

1. Crying is blackmail
2. Ask for what you want. Subtle hints do not work.
3. Sometimes, we are not thinking about you. Live with it.
4. Get rid of your cat.
5. Anything we said six or eight months ago is inadmissible in an argument.
6. Christopher Columbus didn’t need directions, and neither do we.
7. If you think you are fat, you probably are. Don’t ask us.
8. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a problem. See a doctor.
9. If something we said can be interpreted two ways, and one of the ways makes you sad and angry, we meant the other one.

Lesa bought me a book to read.

Adrian Plass new book Bacon Sandwiches and Salvation. Its fantastic read and in fits of laugher.

I have realy enjoyed reading Adrian Plass’ other books.

I’ll put a few extacts up later.

Which OS are You?

Which File Extension are You?

Which Programming Language are You?

I am now running Vista!

1 Curry, 2 Pints and 3 Hours later Vista is now running on my laptop!

Its all very exciti ng. I have connected to the internet and it all looks rather nice and new and swish. I’m sure I’ll have more to say about it in the next few days as I use it more and more. Now the job is getting all my setting on it.

Its been snowing now for a 3 or so hours and now its settling. I do like snow. It does look like I’ll be walking to work tommrow. As soon as I can I’ll get out and get some photos. Watch this space.

This is so cool The Incredible Machine, I want to make one of my own……..

Dispite been told my Microsoft we were going to have to wait another 3 weeks. Today arived the Windows Vista CD’s and the Office 2007 CD’s

Now I think is time to rebuild my laptop…….

Watch this space…….

Vista here we come……

This has been a very long time in the waiting since I first heard about Windows codename Longhorn. I will report back how it goes…….

My Friend Will has started a blog.

In June we had a bottle of Ribena in our office and there was an offer on it to send away for a Ribena plant. At the time it seems rather a intresting thing to have, so me and David sent away for it. I forgot all about it and thought that nothing would ever come as normally happens to me with these thigns, until a couple of weeks before christmas a little packet arived with a cutting in it and a little leaflet saying “Say Hello to Ben!” and instuctings on how to plant and look afterwards. So I planted “Ben” in the garden and all being well in 2 years I should have my own Blackcurrents. How cool is that!