Can not Compute

The format of file .sxw is not supported. The supported file formats are: htm, html, doc, pdf, rtf, txt, wpd. (and what exactly are these anyway? Dialects of a lanuage I do not understand! Translation anyone?)

I guess I should be thankful it tells me the correctly supportable file formats. I guess I have to change it somehow.

Um, so, I never learned all this computery type stuff at school. I just picked it up as I went along, which is why I have huge gaping abysses full of non-connections.

My primary school had one computer (it was in our classroom, but even though I had some coolness by association {we were in the same class together} I was in no way cool enough to touch it). At intermediate the second form classes each had a computer but it was only used as a reward (on the condition that we only used it to play "Wheel of Fortune").

When I was 15ish our family got a pc and I remember encarta'95 quite well. Memorised the encyclopaedia (the interesting bits anyway) maybe that's why I know odd bits and pieces about random things?

Got a hotmail account in my first year at uni. but I hardly ever used it -people just didn't comunicate by email much back then (if we wanted to be sure of getting someone we had to pick up the phone and ring them or leave an answerphone message). I only really got into the internet in my last year at uni doing a research project. And I bought my very own laptop with one of my first pays.

Just on a side note, I remember when I was about ten, thinking what the future would be like and imagining that everyone would have a little pager-like device to write little notes in and be able to communicate with other people and then there would be no more arguments or fights cos people wouldn't get lost and last minute changes of plans could be told to other family members and everyone would understand and not get crossed by accident. And it went without saying that in the future every car would have it's own phone in case you broke down and needed to ring for help..

So everything I know about computers I found out by myself. If I can't figure out how to do something, I just wait til the technology becomes easier to use. And if I can do it, anyone can.

Although I'm always paranoid that one day I'll just delete everything by accident or get a virus or somehow or other damage my computer beyond repair.