Good and Sad

That's satisfying. A neighbour  bought an ancient laptop (40 Gb hard drive, 1.2 Mb memory) from a local library that was updating, for £120 for her youngster. It developed a lengthy shutdown problem, quite common with Windows XP and earlier. The Microsoft fix is here, if anyone's interested UPHClean 


I have to say it was a pleasure to work on. Whoever was responsible for clearing and updating the little beastie for sale (except for the clanger) did a really good job. They even installed a both a modern version of Microsoft office and a free-ware office suit too. Some of the lappy's I'm asked to fix - it keeps me mentally agile - are real horror stories. Downloaded infected porn being a bit of a bugger. 


Can I give you a tip by the way. If you get the chance of a lappy from a skip? Don't do it. I've dealt with a few machines that could get you a banned from working with kids for life, that I had no option but to pass on to the police. Good job I don't care about being popular. Sure, it could be argued I can wipe the objectionable stuff. No-one would be wiser. But I would. I'd know.


I have the advantage of working with people, including a niece now in her twenties, who have been abused, sex industry workers, both male and female, and I have zero tolerance.


On Friday morning a good, young mate died from a cardiac arrest. Karen Sherlock and her hubby Nigel were on Employment Service Allowance and..... Rather than trying to explain it, read this, please do.




http://benefitscroungingscum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/karens-story-rip-karen-sherlock.html?spref=tw 


Sorry for a downer post again. It's raining tonight, again. I love the rain, and starry nights. Think I'll ask my Bear to walk me through the showers to the shop for a beer.