I'm Eddy, your helpful onboard computer…

A couple of weeks ago, my email stopped working. Despite their help - and with the aid of non-IT colleagues - I got it working again by changing from POP3 to IMAP. Then my email stopped working again today. Oh, they said, open your Web Access mail and delete everything.

So I did.

They didn't mention that under IMAP, that deleted everything from my own computer, my own Mail programme. So now I've deleted several thousand emails that I'd deliberately kept: interesting people, addresses, ideas, things I intended to follow up in the near future… the lot. Gone. Permanently.

In the words of Douglas Adams, I'd like to permanently reprogramme IT Services. With an axe. Much better to watch this (on fullscreen):

Yet more Stilton

Things are looking up - interesting colleagues, excellent cheeses for lunch. Simultaneously battling the dark forces of IT services, who've managed to do something debilitating to my e-mail access. The gits.

Feels like I've lost a limb

IT services have managed to fiddle with the servers so that Mac users can't send mail out - so don't feel snubbed if I don't reply to you today. The utter gits.

You can still send me mail, or post to my blog.

Back now - all the mockery from IT services about Macs was worth it because it was their fault!