I have joined Tumblr.

You can find me here.

S'great innit?

(Anything Nik can do, I can do betttter . . . . )

Tags: Tumblr, Geek

HeHeHeHeHeHeHE.

I love to see stories like this.

Doesn't it warm the cockles of your heart?

Tags: Apple, Geek

Those lovely people over at PixelNovel.com have brought out FlickrShop.

FlickrShop is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to upload images to Flickr photo sharing website directly from Adobe Photoshop. No need to save your image to a temporary file, no more switching between applications - just open your image, tweak it in Photoshop and share it with the world via Flickr!

I am not sure how long it has been out - probably a couple of months. I may be the last person on earth to have found it but I HAVE found it and it seems to work very nicely.

They have missed out on a little bit of advertising by not having it automatically insert "Uploaded by PixelNovel's FlickrShop" in the description of uploaded photos and "FlickrShop" in the Tags like Skitch does. But - that wont bother me much really! So long as it does what it says on the tin!

They have a Flickr account with only 3 photos uploaded. I have to say though that their Flickr badge looks remarkably like it has a tampon in the middle of it.

Maybe it is only me.

You can let me know about that one.

I am just happy that there is a new way to upload from Photoshop to Flickr and it is FREE! YAY!

Tags: Geek, Apple, Mac, Photoshop, Flickr, Upload, Photos

Yay - I have a day off. I am doing nothing. (Other than listening non-stop to the whole Texas discography.)

NOTHING.

I did all I had to do last night. Anything else I do today is purely for myself. I may assign some importance to feeding the children and making sure they are clean and taking them to the Exchange shop later to get some pocket money for David from selling his old XBox games. . ..

That is why I felt the need to take this test. It is a little disconcerting that I scored so high when the others in the forum I stole it from where so much lower than me. This always makes me doubt my results! There were even a couple of *I don't know* replies in there.

That one leads on to this one. I think I am happy with this one too. . .

Let me know how you get on.

Tags: Memes, Geek

I have just been handed a brand new six year old piece of kit: a Nokia Card Phone 2.0.

I love new bits of kit (especially freebies!)- but this one doesn't want to play with me. It physically fits in the Powerbook but it is so old Nokia are no longer updating the software for it and the downloads I have seen so far wont open on this laptop. (System requirements: MacOS 8.6 - 9.1 and PCC Powerbook.

I would be very grateful if anyone had any advice on how to get it running - but at the moment it looks like it is going to be on eBay very soon

Tags: Geek, Nokia, Apple, Downloads

YAY! Fantastic news for my very good mate (whether he wants to be or not!) Nik of the Nik Fletcher type fame. He has been working his way up from a lowly *help Susan out with all her RapidWeaver problems* to *ZOMFG can I has job wif RealMac then I can write 4 Download Squad an also iz nao 2 be findz writin for TUAW*

How cool is HE? And to think I knew him before he was famous.

Congratulations! The Starbucks are on you mucker!

Tags: Nik

This morning I was cleaning up my gmail account. Moving some emails to archive and creating a couple of filters etc. I can't remember what I did - but the next thing I was sitting looking at someone else's gmail account. Not mine. . . Now - don't panic - it wasn't a random person - it was someone I have been helping set up a new machine and had organised her a new gmail account so she can keep track of all her other email addresses so her details were on my system. . . But. I did not a. sign out of my account and b. didn't enter any login details for hers.

When I looked at her inbox I realised I could create a few filters for her while I was there - I added a few so all the new emails will be automatically have certain labels applied. Cos I am kind like that. And I know that she wont mind. IF she realises!

Still perplexed about being in her account in the first place though, I signed out and tried to sign in to mine.

Nuh uhhh! That wasn't going to be easy! All I could see were the options in the screen grab here - "your.mum, your.dad, your.fish and your.sockpuppet" all, very obviously, nothing to do with me. Thing was though - when I tried to sign in as myself there was no way to do that.

Thinking it was a glitch I restarted Firefox. Still there. Then restarted the whole laptop. Still there. WTF?

I finally found that if I tried to sign in as your.mom, I was given the error that the password was incorrect and THEN my normal signin screen was there.

I have been using gmail for approximately three years now and have never come across this sort of thing before - I checked on Google for some reference to it but found nothing! Am just sticking it in here as reference for the next person should it happen again!

Anyone found this happen to them? Howcome I got logged out and in to someone else's account??

Weird huh?

Tags: GMail

Please go and check out the original site

The weird thing is: I am currently doing about four of these things. I'll leave that little thought with you.

Just in case there is anyone reading this who isn't on my contacts list on Flickr, I have started a new group there and linked it to a brand new site too.

There is a distinct possibility that I will be joining the Degree course next year upon completion of the HND course I am currently in the final throes of. Thinking ahead to the that, I am trying to put some things in place, gathering research as it were, to give me something to work with later. I haven't really finalised what I will be doing with the information but I am thinking along the ideas of looking at what people consider to be important in a "favourite" photograph.

From the group's description page:

I want to see WHY it is important to you. What makes it important to you? Tell me a story about what you were doing when you took it. Was it just a lucky snap? Was it carefully set up? What does it make you feel when you see it again? Have you taken better photos since but still love that one the most? What do other people think of it? Do they agree with you or do they just not get what you see in it? Where you experienced or inexperienced when you took it - where were you on your learning curve?

Is this the photo you would "save from a burning house" ? Is this the one you want to leave as a silent legacy?

Obviously I need as many examples as possible to use as research so please feel free to join the group while encouraging people in your work-place, all your friends and definitely your family as well, to put at least one photo in. Make it your good deed of the week! The photographs are almost secondary to the reasons why it is special to you so don't be afraid to add one that isn't technically good - it isn't about how good the photo is - just so long as there is a good ramble to go with it.

PLEASE?

Thankfully both my children are of the age now where they can be trusted not to destroy anything by scribbling or drawing. It wasn't always that way. I am sure I have told you about the time David and Jack (next door) decorated David's room with felt tips, managing to reach the ceiling by standing on a chest of drawers, starting behind the door and working all the way round the whole room, not forgetting the radiator.

We hadn't moved in to the house very long and I really didn't know how to approach Gill about how her son had led mine astray. Thankfully the approach I finally took was calm and measured and we found that we are both like minded when it comes to receiving bad news. We both roll our eyes and tut a lot and tend not to take things the kids do too seriously.

Thankfully.

Because the week after they did David's room they went round and did Jack's room.

I quizzed David over this and got an insistent "It wasn't me - Jack did it all" from him.

When I passed this on to Gill over coffee a few days later she said she believed David "because David can't SPELL JACK!"

First rule of tagging - don't use your real name!

Anyway. I have just seen this and have to say - if it happened to me I would not be very forgiving. I have often thought about how materialistic I am and I know it isn't a very good personality trait but dude - if either of mine did this I would have to leave home for a month to calm down.

I have been having a geeky problem for a couple of days. I have been trying to do something with a program and it just wont allow me to do it. I have been going round and round in circles trying and trying again. . .

After a couple of days of banging my head against a brick wall, finally tonight I emailed the Support People and got this lovely, welcome, email back:

Thanks for your email. This is a bug; we're working on fixing it. It's not you, it's us. I'll be in touch with you when we've resolved it. Sorry about that, and thanks for your patience!

How cool is that? It WASN'T ME this time!


YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!

I don't think that is quite right. Sorry if you have received the same sort of treatment - I hate it when I repeat myself.

I hate it when I repeat myself.

(Although, three "Cock Ups" in one day just about sums my day up yesterday!)

This should all be sorted fairly soon. Hang in there with me huh? There is still a minor matter of the the feed icons not being in the correct place on the page but I have been told that is simple enough to fix. . . huh uh . . . and a couple of other little niggly things that I can't seem to fathom but I'll get there. It has been a while since I delved in to RapidWeaver so it is all taking a wee while.

In the meantime - anyone who has followed me over and is receiving this ok - could you let me know via email or comments?

Never mind PC problems - I have been jolting from one cock up to another today.

Here's my new theory: I want to change a few things here on the site. I want to move things around a little and to start all that off I want to turn the page a little on you and get you to read this somewhere else . . . on a different page all together - but my first attempt at that didn't end up so good - so with the benefit of hindsight - I am going to try that again.

This will mean that, those of you who read via RSS (there aren't all that many of you to be honest!) will have a new RSS feed to save. This will be the last post on the old RSS so please go now and save the new RSS feed.

Now! IF you got round to saving the one I gave you earlier - forget it! THIS is the one you want now.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/AnyDanger

Just for the next couple of days - please consider this site as UNDER CONSTRUCTION until I get everything ironed out.

I have my old household computer in work here, taking up space. I basically only ever use it about three times per annum now and have been thinking about donating it to David. Away before Christmas, I turned it on but it came up immediately with an error.

Today I finally got round to contacting our computer guy (after taking a mound of stuff off the keyboard to get at it) and telling him what the problem is. He says it will take a whole Windows re-install (which is Nigel's answer to everything basically) and "that'll be fifty squid thank you very much kerrrrrching". Plus a fifty mile round trip from home to take it to him, then another to collect it. He isn't particularly local to us any more.

The problem is. Do I need a pc enough to warrant £50? If it was £20 and just around the corner yea - but - bleh. . . Should I take that £50 and put it towards an iMac?

Answers on a postcard please.

Every now and then, when I have better things to do, something reminds me that I haven't googled myself for a while. I know it sounds a bit strange - but it is a good way to find out if anyone has been using your Flickr photos say in their blog or in an article.

This afternoon was one of those moments. I am up to my ears in work (was going to insert something witty here about my work book already being printed off for college but that would be salt in an open wound methinks) then realised I haven't googled myself for a while.

HeeEEeeeEEeeeee!

Have a lookeee here! That's my photo there so t'is.

Chuffed I am.

And what about here too?

I have absolutely NO idea what is going on in this one - but he used my photo of Stephanie so it must be a damn fine article. . .

Incidentally, the same guy who wrote the entry about the cinema also wrote one about my old school including a list of famous people who went there. I am not on it. Yet. But here is a You Tube video of a guy I used to know.

I am most happy to report that Duke Special went there too - how cool is that? I didn't know that.

My day just gets better and better!

We went to PC World yesterday and I got my Wireless Mighty Mouse. You know I was always going to love it don't you? After all the whinging I did about them not existing and then the lusting after them when they were released?

I set it up within seconds while making the tea last night. I love the weight of it and the shininess and well, what more is there to say about a wireless mouse? Other than HeeEEeeeEEeeeeEeee. I do like it!

Best of all, I have a ready-made little protector for it. A crocheted cover I made for the iPod fits it snugly and will help me to keep it clean. S'all very gorgeous and I am muchly in love.

However! There is more lust to be had! We were in a real rush in PC World yesterday - it was a quick "Dash in, see if they have any Wireless Mice, buy one if they do and leave without stroking any 24 inch iMacs if they don't" kinda day. Ok, we stroked. A little. And drooled. A lot. PC World IS crap for Apple products though. They had very little Apple stuff - just enough on display to be able to say they had Apple but baaaaad stock levels. They had Nanos a-plenty but no new Shuffles - one very lonely OLD Shuffle sitting there. So Nik - you can shout all you like - I can't buy something that isn't in stock! I might have to get one from Apple for David for his birthday and then play with it I mean set it up for him. . . .

We were lucky to find the LAST Wireless Mighty Mouse, in, of all places, the MOUSE SECTION! Dude! Who would have thought to look THERE! I am being serious! Why wasn't it in the APPLE section? And only ONE left? How close a shave was THAT?

The geek-factor kicked in big style when we passed an end-of-aisle display for the SlingBox. I had never heard of these things before and had to get a quick run-down of it from Jacqui-who-reads-better-RSS-feeds-than-me-obviously.

I want.

I have to have.

This is a must.

I very nearly bought.

I have no idea why I need one of these in my life but I DO!

Please can I have one for Christmas?

Please?

Looks like the Apple software is now available for it which is nice. Nice timing. Imagine me finding out about this product in January 2006 and having to wait til now for the Apple software to be available?! ! How rude would THAT have been?

You KNOW what I could do with this product? Like umm I could umm well it would mean umm. . . it basically means I could go to work and watch tv all day!

Tender! (As David says!)

So much Geek, not enough time or money to enjoy. Every time I go into somewhere like PC World it chalks up another £2000 in my head I would like to spend. £50 for a mouse without at tail, £150 for a box that let's me watch tv anywhere in the world even though I hardly ever watch it when I am right at home and £1700 for 24 inches of sex that I can stroke all day long but couldn't find a Crumpler bag big enough for. . . .

Orgastic!

To total disaster. . . Last week we had a couple of power surges in work. During the first blip Iain's computer went off and wouldn't turn back on. I sat in my office quite smug in the knowledge that my Powerbook would run for a while on the battery and not be too badly effected. The only problem was, the router doesn't have a battery and I was off line for a while trying to reboot that. Took me quite a few keystrokes to figure it out though. . .

Half an hour later and Iain still couldn't get the computer up again so he decided he would open it up. He diagnosed a blown power supply and I found him and old beige box out the back that may or may not have been water damaged at one point but I never actually told him that so shhh!

With a heart like a lion he started to strip the supply out of the blown one and I helped him take the other one out of the donor - yes - there was an air of an organ transplant going on, albeit with a tad more fluff and dust than in a hospital theatre! We successfully transplanted and I watched as Iain put all the sides and screws back on and I thought "Little does he know - that side will be off and on a few hundred times before this is finished." I remember when I had 3 or 4 pcs around me I used to carry a screwdriver with me because I was in and out of the innards of them so often. Many of the boxes ended up with screws missing at best and sides lost at worst.

I was right. It didn't boot up the first time. The life was there but no brains. Immediately I took it apart again and checked all the cables were inserted correctly. I re-pushed them but Iain had put them all in securely. The sides went back on and back under the table again to get it all re-connected. This happened a couple of times more before I gave up and rang Nigel. Remember Nigel the computer guy? I used to be in weekly contact with Nigel but I haven't spoken to him for over a year now. Not. Since. I. Saw. The. Light.

After realising there was no power lead to the hard drive (oooops!), correcting that, then phoning Nigel again to get more advice, we finally got the thing up and running. Thankfully. As the computer has all of Iain's life on there - his customer base and the accounts - he backs nothing up and I am worse - I know how to back it up for him but never have.

That little lot cost me at least 2 and a half hours out of my working day. I was in a hurry to go somewhere and had to postpone that to another day in the end.

The reason I am telling you all this now is that I haven't had as much as two and a half hours worth of down time in the over-a-year I have had the powerbook. I keep having to remind myself that it wasn't always this easy, and take a moment to think about the poor unfortunates who cling to pcs for their own various reasons.

Obviously I could have been hit by a power surge too - that isn't a pc only thing - but the fact that I had to look up Nigel's number rather than knowing it off by heart speaks volumes - doesn't it?

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You know how you know things but never think they would apply to you?

I just followed a link on my Site Meter - it tells me the Search Words people use to get to me and I love it. I clicked the link and hey presto - my site was translated into another language. Yes, of course that is why they have "Translate This Page" but I never thought to look at my own site! D'oh.

Wanna see?

My life just goes from one high to another high to a low . . .

Today I decided to sort out my RSS. It annoys me that I have to keep Safari open in order to keep up to date with my RSS but I would prefer to use Firefox - no - actually I would prefer to use Flock, truth be told, am waiting to make sure it is as damn near perfect as I think it is. The trouble is, I don't want to manually go and move each RSS I have from Safari to Firefox to have to move it all again to Flock. (I know you can save your bookmarks but RSS don't save properly.) So I have been putting it off.

Some time ago Chris told me about NetNewsWire and I looked at it and played and tried it and meh didn't like it much cos it didn't do what I wanted it to do there and then and blah blah blah. He mentioned it again the other day and I thought I should give it another go. Isn't it amazing the way a second viewing of something can make you see a whole different set up.

In about 25 minutes I had all my RSS moved over to it. It is very simple. You just set NNW as your default reader and anytime you hit an RSS symbol it opens the Subscribe panel in NNW, you hit Yes and then it is added. Obviously, you can put the feeds into groups and there are even Smart Groups but let's not confuse things too early. I think the first time I only gave it about 30 minutes of my attention and didn't work out how to read the feeds but that is all sorted now.

I took GREAT pleasure in removing the whole RSS tab from Safari. Never to be seen again! S'brill innit? I am so chuffed. Am even about to go and change my default browser now which I couldn't do before. I am convinced that Safari has been giving me some hassle on and off - it seems to slow things down here despite the fact that it shouldn't.

Thanks Chris!

So after that little exercise I have been finding all sorts of links and one was a "I am new to macs" sort of post full of tips. I passed it on to Jacqui with a smug glance at it to make sure I knew all the things that was on it in case she asks me something I didn't know! And. . . .AND. . . HEheheheEEHEHEHe I found a new party piece.

I had great fun with it until the extreme low hit me. More of a *Two and Two* moment really.

Here it is:

On a Mac, if you hit Ctrl, Option, Apple and the number 8 at the same time something REALLY cool happens. The screen's colours invert. I did that loads of times and then made Jacqui do it. I then took a screen grab of it. (Insert Two and Two moment here) and hit the buttons again to get back to normal. Here is the screen grab I took. Think about it. . . .

Pout.

On yet another high, I just found the Site Drawer, where you have loads of sites suggested to you. God, I may never get out of bed again. There are literally hundreds of sites there I should be looking at. Hundreds! Look at all those lovely Mac sites and Photoblogs. . . Anyone want to Share?

This has countered my total sulkiness that there are loads of friends out there who have yet to join my Frappr map. The map says there are only 4 readers here (not including me) and my Site stats say differently.

Yay and Hello to the ones who have joined. . . . .

Two little updates on the geeky front.

I have struggled for a long time with the idea that my Powerbook isn't quite as perfect as it should be. It *was* the top of the range with a factory upgrage of memory from the standard 512mb to 1gb and with all sorts of lovely bits and pieces thrown in that I never thought I would ever have in my computing life.

Bearing in mind that the reason I left Windows and PCs was the absolute struggle I had to do anything I wanted to do. Some of you may remember the horror of a time I had trying to put my photos on to a slideshow for one customer a year and a half ago. . . It wasn't even just that. Every time I wanted to do something new I had to upgrade something on the PC. Several times in the past ten years I have had to upgrade a whole computer! My friends reckoned I lived in PC World because I always seemed to be ringing them from there.

I was seduced to make the switch to Apple Macs with the promise that Macs don't crash. Well, this one of mine did several times at the beginning. It took me a loooong time to realise that if it was still open in the dock the whole program was still open and I wasn't supposed to be able to have 20 photos open in Photoshop, work on each of them, have Pages open, iCal, RapidWeaver, Safari, Firefox (just because I like Firefox better than Safari but Safari still has all my RSS feeds in it) iTunes and iPhoto all open at the same time. I tried for a long time to remember that.

Recently I have returned to having a big problem that has annoyed me and was starting to taint the love affair with the Powerbook. RapidWeaver - the program I use to run this site. It was taking three minutes to open the file, five minutes to save but more importantly, when I was saving the rest of the computer was freezing usually for twenty minutes at a time. It got so bad that after throwing my teddy in the corner several times I was about to throw RapidWeaver there too.

I recently read a very well written article on memory from MacUser magazine. (Europe's Biggest Macintosh Magazine.) It indicated that really an investment in memory would result in extending the life in my hard drive. The theory being that the less RAM the laptop has the more it has to use the hard drive, resulting in the hard drive burning out sooner than necessary.

I decided in June to upgrade the memory.

It took me until this weekend to get round to ordering it and even at that I required a lot of hand holding and double checking to make sure I had the right stuff after been led astray by one supplier telling me I needed a different type.

It is here. It is loaded. It took less than five minutes to insert and I am well chuffed with myself to have it in place and for it to be working. So far it seems to be making a difference. It didn't make the machine start up any quicker but I just hit Apple S and it took seven seconds to save this so far. That has to be good.

What isn't good is that RapidWeaver requires 2gb of RAM to work properly - that can't be right.

It is hard to believe that I have had the Powerbook now for almost a year. I suppose the price of the RAM is a fraction of what I would have paid out for PC components in that time. If it clears up the niggles I have been having it is entirely possible I will go back to fully loving my wee pet. *strokes lovingly*


The other piece of useless information is that I found an adaptor I received free with my microdrive I bought for my first digital camera about five years ago. It was for a laptop but I didn't have a laptop so I threw it in a drawer in the study. When I saw it I realised "Hey! I can use this now!!" (Insert a little Two and Two moment here.) Not only can I use it but I can keep it snuggly fitted IN the laptop at all times and therefore never be without a card reader for my work photos! HeeeEEeee. Ok - so - I realise that this isn't all that important in the grand scale of things but it saves me buying a new card reader to leave in the office. It is also a fairly sexy piece of kit.

Ok, I am off to do a little work now. You only got this little update because my customer I was expecting didn't show up. Am going to play with Photoshop and see how many photos I can open before I crash the system.

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I have just spent all night doing a little housework. Not the normal kind - the computer kind.

We are heading off on holiday to France in a couple of weeks and I am taking not only the digital camera; two lenses; 6 gbs of memory cards; the film camera; slide film; black and white film; the compact camera (for the kids and Iain); two different mobile phones but also the laptop. Oh, and some clothes!

You think that is overkill?

I aim to take loads of photos of French architecture for next year's coursework. Am really hoping to get some gorgeous castles and churches and farmhouses as well as the fields of sunflowers I have seen in previous years but not had the camera to do them justice. I am really hoping that my health will be top notch so I can take thousands of photos!

Obviously, loads of these photos will be digital and although there are the 6 gb of cards available I am taking the laptop along to download all the photos to and also to blog from should the occasion arise.

There is another reason for the laptop to go. Jacqui is coming with us and bringing her brand new (not yet delivered) MacBook with her too. I intend to share all my favourite tips and application pointers and perhaps show a few Apple secrets. I can't wait and have to say am rather excited about getting my hands on her new machine!

So, with the Powerbook sitting at 95% full once more, despite my clearing it the other week, I decided it was time to clear all the old stuff off it that I haven't looked at for 6 months and no longer need. It took me all night to go through it all - you know how you see things you haven't seen for a while and suddenly they become all-important again to you?

It took ALL night. I have just finished it. After clearing it I had to run a Disc Utility and a restart. It IS faster again but I suppose I wont see how much faster until I get to work and do some Photoshopping again. Things like opening Safari are still very slow. I don't understand that - surely after clearing all that crap off it should be a flying machine again?

I managed to clear a massive 30gb off the machine. That gives me 38gb still to play with. . . . you think that will be enough for the photos?

Perhaps I ought to take a couple of blank dvds too just in case. . .

I have just finished a shoot in the studio of a man and wife, who have been married 25 years, and their daughter. It was a hard shoot as I like my clients to sit on the floor and wear jeans and bare feet and such like but this was a formal set up with high heels (oh my poor background paper!) and the lady wife was not comfortable at all.

It is always the way that I can not bear to look at the photos after a shoot - imagining they are bad - I always have to wait for a while, anywhere from a couple of hours to a couple of weeks depending on how severe the belief is that I have messed up. This time I have to put pressure on myself as they need the proofs pretty damn fast so they can have the final print in time for their party. . . .

So, I am taking a few minutes "off" to read my RSS feed and catch up with other people's blogs while having a coffee. I have quite a few available to me now and some I really look forward to, some I read simply because I have never managed to take them off my list. There are a few writers who open up their world to me, as if switching on a tv screen to their life and I stare at it enviously thinking they have a wonderful life, live in a wonderful place, how they have different beliefs or standards to me, wonderful families; wives; husbands; children or pets. Every week I learn a little more about them.

There is one guy I read who comes across as a very gentle person. He is very interesting and writes about things I have never come across before, explaining in detail so I feel I know the subject well enough to think about it when I am away from the computer. His last blog made me want to go and learn more about the subject - it is almost like he has dangled enough of a carrot in front of me to make me want more.

Isn't the blogging world a weird place? I sit and read about people in different countries simply because I have stumbled across them by accident not because we have any real connection.

The vast majority of the people I read, I don't know and they don't know I read their words.

Yesterday, I gave a talk in a local high school to 13 year olds and spoke briefly of my Grandfather and his time in the Police as a photographer. I think of him often, how we are connected and alike in some ways - I believe he was a bit of a geek with his love of cameras. I think he would have liked the way the world has become - I could see him buying a digital camera and a computer and moving with the times. . . I think his stamp collection (which I inherited) was a way of reaching out to unknown people and places he would never go to the same way my RSS feed is to me.

I really ought to buckle down and write that book about him that I have been threatening for so long. Next year is the hundredth anniversary of his birth. It is still on my To Do list. . .

I went to visit my Mother the other day. (Therein lies a post on it's own!)

I was wearing my Geek Hoody. I am SO proud of that hoody - it was like a *passing out* parade when I was given that as a present. I wear it with pride.

My Mother looked at it and said "Greek? Greek? YOU aren't Greek!" When I pointed out her mistake she took a fit of laughing so hard I thought she was going to wet herself. Hmmph.

I assured her I am proud to be a geek. Have worked hard to be a geek. Make my living being a geek. (Technically.)

"A geek, in my day, was someone who sat at the back of the bus, had a big nose, wore glasses and licked the windows. . . . "

Pout. Things HAVE changed you know.

I am heading out for a meal with my mate Lorna tomorrow night. When I asked her what she will be wearing I got an emailed photo of her outfit. Now THAT is geeky. To have your whole wardrobe in emailable form. . . so far all I have managed to do is list my t-shirts!

Here it is - the reason I yelled YAY YAY YAY YAY a couple of weeks ago. Finally Threadless reprinted The Communist Party AND it was in stock when we looked at it and FINALLY I got it ordered! We bundled it in with an order of Jacqui's which meant I had to wait another couple of anxious days before it was with me (thank goodness for Special Delivery!) but it is here now - and the tee shirt I am wearing today!

Worth waiting for? *I* think so!

YAY!

Or cracking you up - one or the other - but I have had the great need to do this thing to my site for the past while and have just finished it so need to point it out to you.

Here is the latest page on the site. I kinda just did it as an exercise for myself but enjoyed it so much I need you to see it. I might take it off the main menu after a while but I intend to add to it as I go along.

Boy, I love Collage.

Did you get that link? Do you need it again? Here it is again for you - just to make sure you got it. . . .

I also have done away with the old Index page now in favour of the new Accordion beta testing I am *helping* with. I sat and loaded the little images this evening and have to say - I am in love.

Nods.

. . . you receive more emails from Apple than you do from your friends and family. Consistently.

YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!

(I'll tell you more soon!)

But . . . .

YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

Well, I'll just go by my own judgement then.

Anne of Green Gables. L.M. Montgomery.

I won the book on eBay after my chat recently about it. T'was only a couple of pounds . . . but I haven't managed more than a couple of pages yet.
That's not bad advice actually. Quite close to my old motto "Be True To Yourself."

I must admit I have gone a little RSS mad recently. I have added around 70 in the past two weeks (50 of them in the past 5 days!) in my passion for having new things bookmarked and sending me information all during the day and night, gathering silently for me. I now wake up to more little numbers than I can deal with. Or want. And of course - they are all the RSS of the sites I found interesting that particular day - I may have moved on now!

I don't REALLY need the ones I saved for the Advertising project for college and IT IS HANDED IN NOW! HEEEE!

It is a little frustrating too that I don't have to go looking for things now because they are delivered to me. I still like the odd rummage.

But, I AM addicted to the wee rush I get when I see the blue RSS in the url bar! Must not obsess!

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Just found this at The Mac Observer

These rules don't apply to ME as I lived for so long denying the existence of my iPod that I hardly use it in the open now.

If I see that you're in the iPod Zone I will only disturb you if there is something really important you should know, like if you're at the head of the line and the next teller is available, or if your hair is on fire. I think both are acceptable reasons for interrupting your groove.

For the record, these are my major iPod rules of the road:

Eyeball the other guy; if he's looking at you and his lips are moving you can be reasonably sure he's not lip syncing; he's talking to you. Take off the headsets and respond. You can always replay the song, and nodding and smiling can get you into trouble. (This is especially true if the guy is twice you size and seems to be angry.)

If you are standing in line, pay attention. ( Your hair may be on fire.)

Never listen to a quiet passage with your eyes closed while driving.

Dancing like they do in the iPod commercials is only recommended if you can dance. (Even if you can do your own *original moment* dance.)

Unless you do so for a living, singing along with your favorite song should be avoided in crowded places (unless you are William Shatner, then you should avoid singing in any venue).

If you must sing, learn the words.

The whole article is quite funny, if you have the time and an iPod - go look.

There are no two ways to admit this. I may as well just come out with it. It is time to make a clean breast of how silly I have been.

This weekend. . . . .

Oh, how hard this is to say. . .

Ok, gird your loins. Here it comes. . .

This weekend I played with my mate's iPod.

There - not quite as scary when you say it quickly.

You know what is going to happen now don't ya? I wont be able to settle again until I do it again and get it out of my system - or even manage to get one of my own. Oh God help me. I am doomed now.

Fecking geeks - why don't they just go away and leave me alone huh? I was ok until I started looking at what is available on eBay but now I am totally unsettled and anxious and even hyperventilating a tad.

I was