Starting over September 2011
Phew!
Memory working well enough to recall the names and passwords that
access this site. Filezilla
still the best tool out there for multi-platform website maintenance.
One particularly agreeable feature is an “are you sure” process
with date and time to obviate publicly embarrassing version cock-ups.
I
hope to find something less bloated than LibreOffice
for text input... [disappears for sometime in search of something
lite and simple] Plenty of editors out there but I really can’t be
bothered with the arcane arts of HTML editing when all I want to do
is write. WordPress and
Blogger are OK but both
cumbersome to use, consuming an unnecessary amount of limited
confuser resource. [nostalgic pine for the simplicity of msdos Word:
there is a truism to the effect of work expanding to exceed available
capacity, certainly applies to home computing...]
Google's
Blogger has improved
massively since its initial launch and does provide many advantages
over a self-maintained website especially with the maintenance of
comments and despatch of distasteful trolls. Some of the comments
that I have seen on others' blogs beggar belief. Whatever the
mechanism I've learnt from experience that the best way of doing it
is to write off-line then copy/paste into the form provided. Apart from anything else Blogger provides some handy twiddly bits such as location and a sidebar repost of a day's twittering. Watching TV is not really compatible with blogging especially when the film on offer is The Unbearable Lightness Of Being complete with period Czech locations and old Škodas. Apparently Milan Kundera was not happy with the film despite the critical acclaim but then Kundera was never happy about anything very much. In translation he does provide some insight into the Czech mindset. Although not filmed in Prague, save a little black & white footage from 1968, the interspersed music by Janáček and the interior detailing provide a convincing view of Czech life in 1968.
A day later and still waiting for the Agomelatine, the supply of which seems to be difficult for Boots: it appears that it would be easier to buy some snake oil for hair loss prevention than to be supplied with a prescribed drug. Grrr. Will try again tomorrow morning. Day enlivened by Becca's calls from a very hot and sunny Ibiza. Have offered to collect them form Lulsgate on Monday, Dire weather is forecast Sunday/Monday as the UK is hit by the remnants of Hurricane Katia as predicted http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvf6iZVnG9I&feature=share
Lulsgate is generally accurate with flight times so with the experience gleaned from my taxi-driving days, I will see what the likely flight ETA is before embarking on the scenic drive via Burrington Combe to meet Becca and Alex at the airport. Airlines run to such tight schedules that a delay to the first flight of any particular aeroplane will affect all its subsequent flights around Europe in the course of the day
Computers: not dogmatic about them or OSs (although of course if money was no object, I'd be using the latest Airbook) and I use whatever works. Despite many attempts including the rather desperate measure of using the utilities provided by Roadstarter, this new-to-me IBM just won't run Windoze without blue screening but is now problem free running Ubuntu 11.10 (the 11 indicates the year, the 10 the month of scheduled release so this is a pre-release version yet more stable and less inefficient than any Windows SP99). Other computers hereabouts and connected to the Virgin hub that is at the end of what is supposed to be a 50Mb cable internet connection. To be fair, I just ran http://www.speedtest.net/ to be told that my download speed is 49.60 which is rather good for the time of day/week. There is a relentless marketing bombardment from other internet service providers (ISPs) trying to tell me how fast are there ADSL offerings but of course none can compete with cable, not even the boastful fibre offering from BT. The blogging process is not helped by the distractions of https://plus.google.com/, https://www.facebook.com/ and https://twitter.com/ but that's the nature of a life online.
A day later and still waiting for the Agomelatine, the supply of which seems to be difficult for Boots: it appears that it would be easier to buy some snake oil for hair loss prevention than to be supplied with a prescribed drug. Grrr. Will try again tomorrow morning. Day enlivened by Becca's calls from a very hot and sunny Ibiza. Have offered to collect them form Lulsgate on Monday, Dire weather is forecast Sunday/Monday as the UK is hit by the remnants of Hurricane Katia as predicted http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvf6iZVnG9I&feature=share
Lulsgate is generally accurate with flight times so with the experience gleaned from my taxi-driving days, I will see what the likely flight ETA is before embarking on the scenic drive via Burrington Combe to meet Becca and Alex at the airport. Airlines run to such tight schedules that a delay to the first flight of any particular aeroplane will affect all its subsequent flights around Europe in the course of the day
Computers: not dogmatic about them or OSs (although of course if money was no object, I'd be using the latest Airbook) and I use whatever works. Despite many attempts including the rather desperate measure of using the utilities provided by Roadstarter, this new-to-me IBM just won't run Windoze without blue screening but is now problem free running Ubuntu 11.10 (the 11 indicates the year, the 10 the month of scheduled release so this is a pre-release version yet more stable and less inefficient than any Windows SP99). Other computers hereabouts and connected to the Virgin hub that is at the end of what is supposed to be a 50Mb cable internet connection. To be fair, I just ran http://www.speedtest.net/ to be told that my download speed is 49.60 which is rather good for the time of day/week. There is a relentless marketing bombardment from other internet service providers (ISPs) trying to tell me how fast are there ADSL offerings but of course none can compete with cable, not even the boastful fibre offering from BT. The blogging process is not helped by the distractions of https://plus.google.com/, https://www.facebook.com/ and https://twitter.com/ but that's the nature of a life online.
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