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izmeinaToday was the day for that nasty class presentation. One group member said that she'd add Izzie's contribution to the main set of Powerpoint slides so we wouldn't have the silly situation of four different groups of slides.
Iz arrives and she holds up what I in my ignorance thought was a nasty stinking cigarette lighter and says she's got everything OK and ready to roll. And there's Iz wondering where on earth is the floppy disk.
Turns out that this crazy space age gadget is the 'floppy'. She just sticks it in the lecturer's laptop and it downloads, uploads or whatever the stuff that's in the stick. This is all new to Izzie - and the fact that it seemed like centuries to find the damned thing.
Iz was the lucky one who volunteered to start the show. Went through the introduction and who's who and which bits of the topic each of us will do. The Izzie bits were first including stuff about how the 'philosophy' of freebies and how they manage to get money to fund their generosity. While the others did free emails, online games and cash give aways - Iz concentrated on free software, web hosting and online diaries.
Everything was going to plan till I got to the sites themselves. Was not amused to discover that the web links were not working because the laptop was not connected to the net. The previous week it had been, so silly Iz just assumed it was a given.
A bit hard to explain the sites to people when they can't see them - especially those nasty Geocities pop up adverts and of course missed the chance to promote the Cocytusian Cat's favorite site and do my 'be nice to Penguins' deed for the day.
But what was so so annoying - spent all that time tweeking the new website so that I'd be able to talk about test driving the various freebies and all those oodles of evil greenness was just left to linger in the dark.
Most annoying indeed.
The other two girls' stuff was quite good even though one chose only one game site instead of five. Hers was http://www.swirve.com But the guy in our group was utterly pathetic. He had five free email sites but said very little about them and read what he did say from a big sheet of paper in a most monotonous voice. And he thought that hotmail was cool! Iz has used only two of those on his list and cannot believe that he said nothing about yahoo which is infinitely better than hotmail. They have added another annoying screen that tells you you got so many mails which you have to click through. Just another opportunity to annoy you with a page full of ads while trying to get to the stuff that matters. But Iz shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth and six months on am still waiting ever so disappointedly to receive my very first SPAM. And that sure counts for an awful lot.
We will get the results next week. Should be most interesting. Must now be off to do more nasty auditing questionses.
Iz arrives and she holds up what I in my ignorance thought was a nasty stinking cigarette lighter and says she's got everything OK and ready to roll. And there's Iz wondering where on earth is the floppy disk.
Turns out that this crazy space age gadget is the 'floppy'. She just sticks it in the lecturer's laptop and it downloads, uploads or whatever the stuff that's in the stick. This is all new to Izzie - and the fact that it seemed like centuries to find the damned thing.
Iz was the lucky one who volunteered to start the show. Went through the introduction and who's who and which bits of the topic each of us will do. The Izzie bits were first including stuff about how the 'philosophy' of freebies and how they manage to get money to fund their generosity. While the others did free emails, online games and cash give aways - Iz concentrated on free software, web hosting and online diaries.
Everything was going to plan till I got to the sites themselves. Was not amused to discover that the web links were not working because the laptop was not connected to the net. The previous week it had been, so silly Iz just assumed it was a given.
A bit hard to explain the sites to people when they can't see them - especially those nasty Geocities pop up adverts and of course missed the chance to promote the Cocytusian Cat's favorite site and do my 'be nice to Penguins' deed for the day.
But what was so so annoying - spent all that time tweeking the new website so that I'd be able to talk about test driving the various freebies and all those oodles of evil greenness was just left to linger in the dark.
Most annoying indeed.
The other two girls' stuff was quite good even though one chose only one game site instead of five. Hers was http://www.swirve.com But the guy in our group was utterly pathetic. He had five free email sites but said very little about them and read what he did say from a big sheet of paper in a most monotonous voice. And he thought that hotmail was cool! Iz has used only two of those on his list and cannot believe that he said nothing about yahoo which is infinitely better than hotmail. They have added another annoying screen that tells you you got so many mails which you have to click through. Just another opportunity to annoy you with a page full of ads while trying to get to the stuff that matters. But Iz shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth and six months on am still waiting ever so disappointedly to receive my very first SPAM. And that sure counts for an awful lot.
We will get the results next week. Should be most interesting. Must now be off to do more nasty auditing questionses.
