A philosophical question...

[alexpgp]

Why is it that, the more I work with Office files, the more extreme are the pathologies I encounter?

Yesterday's source file caused Word to crash multiple times any time I tried to change the zoom level.

Today's PowerPoint file (each with its own embedded object from Word or Excel) stops responding to mouse clicks shortly after being opened, and has required about a dozen system reboots of Windows 7 so far today.

Cheers...

Comments

[daphnis.livejournal.com]

Do you suppose that computer systems and programs are susceptible to garbling impulses triggered by Earth-stress events such as the Chilean earthquake and resultant sloshing around in the Pacific Basin? Our sphere is obviously undergoing extreme internal activities, and probably will be for a long time; magnetic fields muck up animals, birds and people, so why not the internal workings of software directives?

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

I can understand computer memory corruption resulting from the passage of a cosmic ray, but not from things like earthquakes, primarily because in the Grand Scheme of Things™, earthquakes are barely noticeable on a global scale (locally, it's a different story, natch).

I pin the blame for my recent computer ills on ill-nourished and poorly trained engineers.

Cheers...