Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Sometimes it's hard being IT literate

This might be a bit geeky.

As part of what I was doing at work, I needed a list of certain codes for every parish in Scotland (all 891 of them). I got my list from somebody, in the body of a PDF, which would not export to anything sensible. I said thank you very much, but do you have it as a text file so I can save myself some typing? I got a reply with an attached Word document and the codes in an even more abstruse graphics-intensive format. I don't actually mind that they don't have a textual list, but in what way did my correspondent think they were helping?

OK, I'm better now.

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