Good Lord! Is it really Mr Haigh, former purveyor of fine computers and associated parts, crasher of cars, and all-round forum contributer? What are you up to?
It is indeed moi young sir, although I'm struggling to remember the car crash you're referring to ... there have been so many! Maybe you mean the bike crash that broke my back in three places :)
Still working at 62 (punishment from God for not sorting out a good pension much earlier than I did) and now the proud grandfather of 2. Still occasionally build when someone needs something really specific to a task, but it stopped making financial sense a very long time ago.
Vey fond memories of the Delphi forum us ex-PC Pro'ers nailed together, the wonderful members we had and the camaraderie we found :)
Ah yes, a bike crash. That was it. I'm fast approaching 8 years of retirement after Capgemini failed to persuade me to stay on.
That Delphi forum was fun while it lasted. I often wonder what became of some of those names. Some of them landed here, others were probably not up to making a move. Clive for instance. I also occasionally (not often) recall the PC Pro forum which worked rather well as a plain text bulletin board. Life was a lot simpler when computer worries concerned the incantations to be placed in Autoexec.bat and Config.sys and why doesn't my Soundblaster blast any sound because I know I did it all right? Names are a bit vague now. I remember Ratty and Bully. But who was that Russian bloke whose engagement with the world of IT always seemed odd?
Two grandchildren? Sounds good. Still working? Sounds not quite so good. But then, I had a chart of the number of weeks left until retirement next to my desk for 10 years (I kid you not). Or is it OK? I have a couple of old school friends one still working at 67 and the other only semi-retired. But they enjoy what they do so I suppose it's different.
I love that Yve can show up for the first time in ...months? years? and just crack right on with modding the place. I was too slow! 90% of the mod alert requests turn out to be "do you want to approve this low effort spam? It's not even funny!" which is a disappointment.
Is there more to allowing somebody to post regularly than allowing their current post? Kweston's post was awaiting approval then Yve approved it, but that didn't allow his next one.
None of the mod stuff works on the mobile site, which is frustrating. I tried taking him out of the new user group but I've forgotten what they all mean. There's checkboxes for all the permissions and posts needing approval isn't checked in any folder.
as far as I can tell, it's done, he's not in the new user group and everything seems as it should be. But this is one area of the forum controls that was always a bit of an interface-puzzler, we're all out of practice!
And hello Yve and Kweston! Nice to see some blasts from the past again, it's amazing how time flies. On PCFF and NPCFF, I was a spotty teenager, last year I turned 40 and have more grey hairs than I can count these days - at least on the parts of my head that aren't bald.
Some aspects of this getting older and supposedly wiser thing are a bit rough, aren't they? I quite like my grey hair but I was less than impressed with the cataract I had removed, last year and the arthritis can just do one.
Naproxen's your best friend. Physio is when some bloke phones you up a year after your referral to tell you how to download some shit exercises from the web that you knew about anyway but rejected because you can't get across the room let alone "stretch regularly".
