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I was told to go on a course this week - "Introduction to the IBM AS/400". I viewed this with great suspicion as I consider anything non-GUI to be, well, slightly crap and therefore not worth using.

Dear Diary:

Day 1: Hire car turns up a day early, man throws keys through letter box and buggers off. No probs, it's a new Skoda Octavia, we use one of these at work.
Day 1+1 hour: Eventually work out how to adjust the wing mirrors and unlock the passenger door.
Day 2: Work out how to use the touch-screen radio and climate control. Drive to course up M1 - really could use cruise control.
Day 3: Course starts, can't park anywhere except in very tight spot, get trapped by the wing mirrors.
Day 4: Park miles away, at least I can get out of the car.
Day 5: Can't remember, brain fried by 3 days of TLA's. That's TEN letter acronyms.
Day 6: Last day of course! Hoorah! Discover switch for the powered fold-in wing mirrors whilst driving out of the car park. Drive back down the M1. Quite tired, really could use cruise control.
Day 7: Hide Skoda keys under flower pot for man to find.

Things I found out:

IBM AS/400 commands are all 10 chars or less, everything works in UPPERCASE AND SHOUT AT YOU.
IBM isn't actually all that bad.
The cruise control switch is on the indicator stalk behind the steering wheel.

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