Having seen the movie ‘National Treasure’ I would love to see some of Philidelphia, to see some of the areas shown in the movie associated with the signing of the Declaration of Independance. I guess I would also like to …
I have a few housekeeping things to do today… Putting away washing and the like. And some general tidying up. They should not take all that long. That is the plan anyway. Friday I picked up a copy of Phantom …
Just over a week until my birthday… Rather than have a birthday party for everyone this year, I will do that next year and make it big; and just meet with all my friends at various points over the next …
Every time I think I have everything running on this computer one more little thing crops up. Minor little things that I missed on my big list of things that need to be installed. And when I find them I …
From the Archives This is one that is definitely from the archives. I am the first to admit that the photo does not do the garment justice. It is a vest I made from scratch in year 11 or 12 …
After thursday nights reinstall effort, I felt rather tired yesterday… So tired I just needed a ten minute nap about 4:00 in the afternoon. Working from home it allows me to do that occasionally. Well, except for when clients or …
I had an email from a friend of mine earlier asking if I was OK sicne he had not seen any entries in my blog for a few days. Hmm. Am I ok. I think so. The problem was that …
It has been a busy afternoon. The PC is almost set up to where it needs to be. I will post more later as to how it is going. But I am generally very happy with things. I think I …
The last few hours have been really hectic. Just before lunch a friend of mine rang telling me that he needed to do a demo tonight and needed my help. So I needed to drop everything to get some infrastructure …
As part of the reinstall of everything I installed the new version of Microsoft Messenger – version 7. It contains the option to let other people know what you are listening to in real time. And this being microsoft it …
OK. So how did things go overnight? Well, the VisualStudio software installed OK. I found a copy of the software that went with the number I had. Thanks to it being an MSDN Subscriber CD I did not even need …
The new HDD arrived this afternoon about 5:00pm, and I have been busy installing new software onto the PC ever since. This is going well, but it could be faster. Right now there is one major problem. VisualStudio is playing …
I have just had another SKYPE teleconference – but this one ended with Skype dropping out for some reason. I dont know what was happening. Skype says that it is Internet Telephony that just works. In my casse now it …
I have ordered a new HDD for $187 including shipping from www.auspcmarket.com.au. Their price was good, and I have seen them in Google searches for a while. So I decided to give them a try. The HDD should be here …
One thing I forgot to mention yesterday – something which is probably so unimportant that it does not even need to be written about. Yesterday I could not find my glasses when I woke up. Normally they are on my …