Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Satan helms Microsoft.

It took me 8 emails to get the formatting for my IS right. I was so frustrated at fixing one thing and happily sending off the email to Mr Wong, only for him to reject it 'cos something I didn't notice decided to happily go wrong. This is the last email that I sent him, in a (rather frustrating) Gmail conversation:

Keita Cheryl Ang to Wong 5:36 PM

D: How did that happen? Darn Microsoft Word! I'm really really really really really really really really really sorry. Formatting is $#&^$@!$#%#&% I'm sure you agree.

And this is his reply. Very apt, I might add.
Wong Yew Leong to me 5:47 PM

Thank you for fixing the problem. It looks great now, so please print a hard copy for me.

I once read a comic book (Hellblazer, if I remember correctly, the one with John Constantine as the main character) which had the following sequence:

Two men were talking in a pub about God and Satan using earth as their playground and humans as their pawns in their struggle for dominance over the other. One of the men said that Microsoft must be one of Satan's creation, because it usually works, and it gets out to more than 90% of all computer users, but every now and then it screws up and makes you really really mad and you will curse and swear and probably throw a few things, and so a little at a time you edge ever closer to hell. So the Devil is all about subtlety. All the big horrible things - natural disasters and stuff - probably not Satan.

So yes. Satan helms Microsoft.