Like a lot of bloggers, I tend to blog at different locations. Sometimes it’s from the main PC at home and sometimes it’s on my NetBook when I’m on the train. And being inherently lazy, I sometimes blog from the PC downstairs at home because I can’t be bothered to walk up the few stairs …
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Category:Technology
Out with the Chair…In with the Chair
I left frighteningly early this morning – 3.45am – to ensure a trouble-free journey to my old school. Luckily, it was one of the most trouble-free journey I’d ever had, resulting in me getting there at just after 6am! Time for a snooze in the car!!! The reason for the journey, was a full-committee meeting …
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Fish & Chips and… Avatar
With Friday-night Fish and Chips organised, Jo, Janet, Lee and Nikki joined us for supper and then we all watched Avatar on Blu-ray (is there any other colour for this film!). Ann and I had seen it at the cinema back in February in 3D. At the time, I’d been brief about the film …
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Two Useful ‘Plug-ins’ for Windows Live Writer
Stumbled on a really useful couple of ‘plugins’ today for Windows Live Writer. Import and Export Wizard First up, it’s a plug-in created by Kobi that allows you to export all your WLW settings to a single file. It’s obviously useful as a backup strategy, but in addition, it allows you to import that same …
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Techy Day
I drove down the Camberley in Surrey today to help Maggie C out with a few PC techy problems and help her choose a NetBook. I left frighteningly early – 4.15am – because I know, from experience, that it can be a nightmare of a journey, simply because it involves the M25! The bad news …
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Posting problems
For some reason, none of my (holiday) blogs containing photographs can be posted whilst we’re away. It might be something to do with the extremely slooooow internet connection here, or, something more complex than that. Anyway, it’s Wednesday, and normal (blogging) service will continue once we get back on Saturday, when I’ll hopefully post some …
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Holiday in Ireland – Travel Day
9.55am: We’re off to Ireland – Belfast – Strangford Lough to be precise. It’s a self-catering apartment in an idyllic spot, about an hour’s drive from the George Best Belfast City Airport and very close to the water. We left home just before 10am and 50 minutes later, we were at Birmingham T2. Initially, the …
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Techy Day II
I popped round to Lee´s to fix her printer/photocopier and install DropBox onto her PC so it networks with ours. Related articles Dropbox icons now respect your global theme (no more manually replacing them!) (omgubuntu.co.uk) Want to email files to your Dropbox? Send to Dropbox does just that. (thenextweb.com) Send to Dropbox Adds Files to …
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Techy Day
A bit of a techy-day’ today. Great – I love days like this! I spent the morning over at Julie’s helping her to add some apps to her new shiny new phone, the excellent Windows mobile OS HTC Touch 2 and install the 16Gb micro SD card. Unfortunately, I couldn’t help much with Tom’s new …
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Productive Meeting
I took the 9.57 train to London today to meet-up at St Pancras International with Peter and Isabel from The Old Croydonians’ Association. We met upstairs by the famous clock and the statue – ‘The Lovers’. For us to meet anywhere other than the school was a first for us, but the aim was …
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Tweak Tweak!
I just can’t leave it alone! I’ve made a few more tweaks to my Blog. https://blog.stevepalmer.com Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with a fondness for the art …
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Redesigning my Blog
It’s certainly been a ‘tech’ weekend! Thanks to Google, I’ve had an opportunity to utilise some of their free blogger-gadgets to add some sparkle to my Blog. I can now automatically get my Twitter feeds to show on the page, and I’ve tidied up the archive section so it doesn’t take up so much screen …
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Test Blog using Zemanta plug-in beta for WLW 2010 Beta
For those, who blog, or maybe are thinking of starting, I’d recommend a plugin for Windows Live Writer (and many other blogging platforms) called ZEMANTA. In short, this plugin will scour the text content of your blog and suggest (via a side panel) links to various related content from around the web-o-sphere. It even provided …
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Lumix G2 – First photos
This is hardly scientific – I just wanted to ‘bang-off’ a few shots without too much consideration for settings, lighting, subject etc. The interesting part for me was that all the interior shots didn’t require the flash to be used. I’m very satisfied with these, but I’ll get a chance to try some more considered …
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Little things
After yesterday’s technological fiasco, things are more-or-less back to normal with the PCs – Phew! The rest of the day turned out to be much more enjoyable – full of ‘little things’ getting sorted: Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! …
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“Ooh Arr, avast there, me hearties!”
With eye-patch and peg-leg firmly in place we joined David and Val on their new boat Osprey One today. It was a perfect day for it, plenty of sun and a pub-lunch destination in mind! Lee was able to join us too as her final piece of furniture arrived slightly earlier than expected and we …
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Dish Dilemma and Cracking Concert
Ann left at the crack-of-dawn to scoop up Lee from Avondale Mews and then onwards to Mum’s in Biggin Hill. We’re all off to an outdoor concert tonight with David and Val and Mum is staying for the week. Skyforce. a TV installation company I found in Yellow Pages arrived just before lunch to give …
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Fancy some Speed?
I love speed, especially if its internet connection speed! 🙂 Those of us here in Tynan Close know what it’s like to NOT have a fast connection. Most of us are languishing at around 0.5-1.5 Mb – and that’s after fourteen years and three upgrades at the Exchange later! From what I’ve read, there’s not …
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Techy Day
A rare day-off from the day-job that allowed me to don my anorak and become Mr PC-Doctor for the day! First stop: To check whether Lee’s internet connection is up-and-running. It is… but it’s not the 13Mb speed suggested by BT – more like 1Mb!! Still, let’s see how it works out once it’s had …
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Still Not Net!
This is peculiar! PlusNet sent me a new router to replace Lee’s to see if that was the problem with why she can’t connect to the ‘net at her place. I wired it all up and connected it and it made NO difference at all! Bah!! Talk about ‘Plan B’! we must be up to …
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Net Not!
Popped down to Lee’s to try and determine why she’s not able to connect to the ‘net in spite of a shiny new BT socket being installed. Tried all the obvious stuff like swapping out the micro-filters and disconnecting other devices from the line. No luck – the router refuses to switch-on those last two …
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Ralph’s here…
Our good friend Ralph is staying over for a night (he’s been at a meeting in Market Harborough for most of the day). Time for a serious techy-catch-up!! 🙂 Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology …
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Julie’s Rules
Popped around to Julie and Tom’s to try and deal with a problem Julie was having with all her emails automatically going into the deleted bin! It turned out that a ‘rogue’ rule was to blame. Technology is wonderful, isn’t it??? Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post …
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PC Fix
Popped over to Paul and Sue’s to attempt to fix Sue’s PC. For no reason at all, it had started to pop-up warning messages about viruses and spyware attacking her machine. No matter what they tried, they couldn’t get the message to stop appearing. What was interesting was, that it wasn’t their normal AV program …
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Chish and Fips!
A busy, but ultimately enjoyable day. It didn’t start off that way though! For no reason, at about 11am, we lost all connections to the internet for about an hour, just at the point where all the stuff I’d been working on in the morning needed a connection to complete the job. Strangely, email was …
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Cambridge, here we come!
Ann, Nicki and I set of for Cambridge just before 8am, to finish off the Christmas presents. The weather was truly atrocious – gale force winds virtually everywhere in the UK. We had a smooth journey there and were soon amongst the hundreds shopping at The Grand Arcade. I managed to get the last of …
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Web-site completed
I put the finishing touches to Nick and Celina’s web-site today – Hillside Cottage in Haworth. I used Serif’s excellent WebPlus software on this project instead of my normal DreamWeaver. First impressions of the software are very good indeed – it’s very intuitive and full of really useful features..and at a fraction of the cost …
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Saving Ryan’s Privates
(Well, I thought it was funny!) Further to yesterday’s entry where I’d mentioned that we’d spotted that the toilet seat was plugged into the mains electricity, all is now clear! Take a close look at the symbols in the picture above (click on it to make it larger) – are you thinking what I’m thinking? …
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Princess Project!
Ann went over to Denise’s today to polish up her MS Project skills. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with a fondness for the art of …
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New web-site
I drove up to Stamford to see Nick and Celina. They’ve bought a holiday cottage in Haworth and need a web-site so they can advertise and let it out. I aim to create most of it this week before I travel to Germany next week. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not …
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