Flashes of Panic

The IAAF’s system for publishing their site is built using ASP and turns out to require Internet Explorer on a Windows machine. The media office shrugged its shoulders and set about finding Windows laptops for me and the other reporter working on their team who uses a Mac, but then I stopped them. “Wait,” I said, “I have Windows here too.”

So I fired up Parallels Desktop, opened Internet Exploder Explorer, and opened up their CMA. They were quite impressed. But then… “Hey, can you do that for Matthew, too?”

Also, yesterday, when I was trying to get online here in the hotel room, I heard the Japanese word pasacon for the first time. I’ve seen it before; it’s a contraction of “Personal Computer.” The clerk was asking if I had the computer in my room. I should’ve said, “Of course, I’m a pasacon otaku.”

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