One of my friends keeps sending me joke pictures and videos to watch but actually they are not really jokes, they are reality.

Here is a link that reminds me of my home country

The people in this picture are actually quite common in Britain. Some of them are frightening reminders of the neighbours I left behind me. Good luck to the single mothers with lots of children and a teenage father.

The subject of this post is the slogan I created for the NEC Corporation when I worked for them.

In Japan I still see this slogan being used in TV ads. The word “Empowered” didn’t used to be a direct translation to Japanese but I thought it was a good word to match with NEC’s intention to be innovative. Anyway, it won me a trip to Tokyo from the UK to meet the top bosses in the NEC Super Tower. It was a great experience and I still cherish the memory.

LOL - I just crafted my title text to attract people searching for most popular blogs with high traffic and even as I type this sentence it’s tempting to ….

Well it’s a secret technique of webmasters that I am  not going to waste your time with here

OK here’s a hint: post frequently and include words that people search for. But that’s more than a hint, it is the answer like you should never stop typing and posting. It just goes on and on and you can’t stop! Maybe I should stop posting top keywords that rank well for blogs or words like that? Yep, I did enough, it’s time to close.

Today I wanted to use my PC in a different room so I connected it to a different monitor to “save time”.

Unfortunately this caused Windows XP to fail to start so I switched off the PC and connected my usual monitor.

Then XP went into a loop continually rebooting my PC. All I could do was boot up into safemode. Pressing F8 can get you into safe mode as well as from the command line.

Then I tried system restore to an earlier date but got the message “your computer cannot be restored”! I tried an earlier restore point with the same result. I tried again and again with the last saved restore point. Finally it did restore itself! The last thing I wanted to do was re-install windows XP.

It seems like you need to be persistant with a stubborn opperating system.

I had a problem where all the arial fonts in my web browser windows became italic text.

It was caused by an installation of MSAS replacing the arial.ttf font file in windows!

To fix it you open the font directory in windows and find a shortcut called menu1 which replaced the normal arial font.

Delete this. Now copy a file called menu1 from C:\Program Files\MSAS\CONFIG to the windows fonts directory. This will install the arial font (arial.ttf). When you see a message complaining arial is already installed, exit the dialogue since it’s trying to re-install the bold and italic fonts again which is not necessary.

Now the arial fonts should look ok in web pages