Recently there has been a media drama about Internet Explorer. This is because some Chinese hackers managed to get into some human rights activists Google accounts. This started a catalyst, Google threatened to pull out of the Chinese market and then they got slated by other companies, saying it was either a stupid move or a fake move, because of the size of the market that the Chinese market is. There’s tons of people accessing the internet from China now, so it’s a pretty big market to step out of. It’s also got the media all hyped because there is a security issue. Now, Microsoft say that this issue is mostly contained to IE6, if not just IE6 and that no later versions of IE should be affected. Seeing as the media likes to scare monger though, it’s been said that these hackers, or other people are trying to bend the script or whatever they are using to attack later versions of IE, and possibly be used in conjunction with other browsers.
The thing is, even if you do have IE6, the chances of going on one of these vulnerable sites, that can apparently affect your computer with a trojan horse is really really quite remote. It’s not really anything to be concerned about. My colleague even works on his work machine with a trojan day in and day out. Just our virus software isn’t picking it up! Heh, he manages to still get his work done. Even if Google is taken over occasionally and it makes his computer really slow, and turn stop working completely when it feels like it. Today though, our parent company made everyone that they employ upgrade from a mixture of IE6 and IE7 across the board to IE8. Now, I could understand if they upgraded the IE6 machines, but the IE7 ones, really? I’m not sure there was any need. We got an email sent round that if we hadn’t upgraded by lunchtime our computers would be forced to restart to upgrade IE7. It’s fun the amount of influence the media has over such a small loophole. The French and German were even told by their government to stop using IE until the hold was at least closed.
I’m not having a good week overall, I seem to be in a bad mood and the small things can set me off. A couple of people have noticed that I’m not exactly in a brilliant mood but I lie, shrug it off and say everything is fine. This is because I don’t really know what’s going on, so there’s no point in admitting there’s something up, if there’s nothing to talk about in my opinion. I just want to lie around with someone I care about. I miss the attention they give me and I refuse to vocalise it because I am trying to back out of his life. I don’t, no, I can’t be a part of it any longer the way it seems to be going. It’s a bit unfortunate that I live with him because I can’t just shut him out. If I could do things the way I want to, I would have a job that pays enough and be living on my own elsewhere. He would be cut out and he would know why. But his fiancée would probably be none the wiser. She’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer anyway. I don’t think I’d even need to tell him that the choice he has made by staying with her is one I could no longer live with and I would have to cut him out. Before, not being as close as we have been I could just about cope with living with him in this manner. It’s so hard now though. Much tougher than I thought. I can just about deal with it, but there’s only so far any human can go, right? I know what I want to do. I know where I want to go. I just need to progress my life in that direction and it starts with a new job that pays enough. So I look weekly, and I’ve applied weekly too.
Money is really worrying me this week, actually. We get a bonus that is 10% of our yearly salary. But, 5% is company profit based and we didn’t make it. So bam, cut it in half. Then I found out yesterday that I am in fact only getting 4%, I’m on a pretty low salary. So it’s a pretty low bonus. And after tax and National Insurance I’m not really taking home a ton of money, so I need to save harder for the next 6months to get my car serviced, MOTed, taxed and insured. Which means pretty much no treats for me. Then I need to save up because I want to go and see my sister up north later in the year. I’m basically going to be broke. It would be nice if I got another job because any increase on the salary would go towards my savings. ANYTHING helps where I am now. We also got told just before Christmas that we weren’t getting our annual pay increase because of the current climate. So I approached my boss to see if I could have an individual pay review as I was still earning under the minimum wage. I’m going to be taking on more tasks this year because a colleague is going on maternity leave and one is leaving (not that the company knows about the one leaving yet, no-one but my pregnant colleague and I know). Therefore I think it’s only fair if my pay is adjusted so that I take home the same as them. I feel a little under appreciated to be honest. Because I probably do the most work. Legworkwise.
I would just like to curl up and ignore everything for a couple of days.
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