Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Rose-tinted spectacles are all well and good but Come. On.

I don’t know who among you have read Douglas Adam’s brilliant Dirk Gently series (which, although quite fantastic, has never quite achieved the popularity of the Hitchhiker books) but there’s a recurring joke in there where our protagonist Dirk attempts to use an I-Ching computer to solve his problems. The computer’s answer, regardless of the question it is asked, is “a suffusion of yellow”.

It’s quite a charming idea. It is not, however, nearly so charming when it is happening in real life and the answer is a suffusion of magenta. Because, for reasons unknown, my computer screen is currently pink. Very, very pink. It is the kind of pink that looks like I have just popped a piece of cellophane over a lamp or makes me think that I constantly have a bit of sleep in my eye. And although I have dutifully poked the cords under my desk and rubbed my eyes raw it is not getting any better.

Not only is this making my eyes go all weird but I am starting to fear it is affecting everything I write with a pink hue, much like the way a bad headache infuses all my writing with vaguely grumpy overtones. What kind of result this pink hue will have on the kind of hard-hitting topics I’m covering over here is anyone’s guess but I am begging the IT department: please don’t let me find out.

7 comments:

Lindsay said...

It's making me feel quite ill and I have my back to it most of the time. WFT is that boy doing that does not involve fixing it? Jeez.

Dave said...

I had a similar problem with my monitor except it went green. Cue new, flat screen monitor for dave :) There are some benefits to your office being located 45 kms away from IT...

my name is kate said...

Well it's all fixed now but there's not a flat-screen in sight. Bastards. 'Spose it's just a matter of time before someone pops over from the Magistrates court to break into the Rocky office though...

Dave said...

yeah, well, er, you are!

my name is kate said...

Um nice one. *ahem*

Dave said...

so... *whistles* You come here often?

my name is kate said...

hee - dork