Wrote this up on the ‘Family Forum’ but figured it deserved to be out here as well. Nothing important really, just an update on the development of our technological setup here at home. It’s all down to me having discovered a few weeks ago a small utility that allows me to backup all my data … More One step forwards…
Interesting day today. The eldest daughter finally had her Black Belt test and seemed to pass well enough to gain her belt – she’ll find out in a few weeks after her holidays. We were a little concerned about her because they were wearing their thick black outfits and the temperatures were steadily rising! When … More Summer is on the way!
Finally fixed the laptop. After some prevarication and testing I decided the wireless card might be faulty so managed to force myself to get out and buy a new one. This time instead of the Netgear WG511T which worked well for several years, I bought a D-Link DWA-610 ‘Wireless G Notebook Adapter’. Installed it, connected … More Lappie blues
Sad to hear of the death of Paul Newman who succumbed to cancer last night. Paul was 83 and apart from his roles as an actor was a recognised humanitarian and all round good guy. At last known figures, his foundation had given away $220 million – mostly earned in profits from sales of his … More Vale Paul Newman
Jamboree 2008 is in Tara, near Warragamba Dam and lasts from 27th September to 6th October. They ran from 1966 as ‘musters’ but the name was changed in 2001 to bring NSW into line with the other Guiding groups. They’re held every two years unless there’s an international Jamboree happening and the kids love them! … More Girl Guides – Jamboree 2008
This utility is such a ‘must have’ I rarely remember to tell anyone about it! Sounds silly I know but it’s *so* useful, essential even, that I honestly forget that it isn’t a part of the basic operating system! The thing is called ‘WordWeb‘ and it sits quietly in your taskbar until there is a … More Wordweb utility – it's an essential!
Heirem finally got the widget working in the sidebar so many thanks to him for his efforts. I’m no coder so have no idea what it was he did… but I’m glad he did it. I’ll populate it as the year progresses. For example, it might be a good idea to add in aniversaries and … More Events Calendar working!
Had an interesting comment this morning from a guy called James who lives in Cardiff. It went into a thread I’d rather wasn’t messed up so I’m going to pass on his sentiments here. James also uses the ID ‘welshdog’ and has an address at hotmail.com, but that particular version of the name isn’t mine! … More Verrrry interesting!
We’ve spent a little while trying to set up a new ‘plug in’ which is an Events Calendar. The idea is that impostant dates, like anniversaries or forthcoming items of interest will be flagged. It’s supposed to have a widget over in the right sidebar but as yet I can’t make it function. Still working … More Events Calendar
Was clearing out some of the old posts the other day and found a few from the time we had that spat with the poison dwarf and her familiar. After some digging around I discovered I *was* able to publish them again… but with a ‘private’ tag which effectively stops outsiders from viewing them. So… … More Have they gone yet?
