Quixotic Evil

This article is alternatively entitled 'Stay away from de Voodoooo', especially if you're not a lawyer, a philosopher, or a person with a vague interest in almost anything and too much time on his hands.

Clarke's Third Law:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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After a promise a while back then a good month recently, the office has new 19'' flat screens all 'round.
I've also got around to installing MS Visio, and spent a couple of hours playing with it by way of making some diagrams for the report I was preparing. Visio is great: it's not such a complicated brief (I want to be able to put standardised symbols into this diagram easily, connect them with lines where necessary, and if I find something is in the wrong place I want all the lines to follow when I drag it) but I've not found anything else that makes that sort of work quite so convenient.

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