Com Pewter
Sunday, 19 March, 2006
I left you there on a cliff-hanger, didn't I. But I promise I will return to the subject of forgiveness soon. I certainly haven't forgotten.
Yesterday was my day off. I slept in, we had pork buns for lunch, Josh came over to scan some stuff for Sunday school and then we went to Condell Park to pick up my new computer from the friendly nerds at SecretNet. (New computer is courtesy of my mum. Thanks Mummy!)
This is the first time I have ever owned a desktop and it's a little strange. I no longer have a keyboard with half the letters worn off due to furious typing. I no longer have to eject the wireless card in order to attach the CD ROM drive and my hard drive is now a zillion times bigger than my old one. I have a LCD monitor, a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse (so I can type this from the piano stool if I want), speakers (which can plug into my walkman so we can play music in the bedroom), I can watch DVDs on my computer and I now have the power to burn CDs.
I spent the rest of yesterday moving my desk (the way it was, I couldn't get any wireless reception), rearranging everything that was on my desk (and ended up with a huge pile of Stuff That Needed to Be Sorted Through), moving everything off my laptop onto my desktop and installing all the programs I normally use. I also made the decision to switch from Eudora to Thunderbird: I've been using Eudora for around 10 years now and even though it's easy and I mostly like it, one of the things that has always hugely annoyed me is the way it formats its address book: it's just not convenient to export. The way the address book works is great though: if you want to create a list of people, you just type in their aliases under a group alias and the addresses will all expand in your actual email. Thunderbird, however, works a lot more like Outlook (and I would have switched to Outlook except it doesn't let you edit messages in HTML. Outlook Express does but I find Outlook Express annoying in places). You have separate v-cards for all your contacts and you great groups by moving people into them. It's a little more time-consuming and I started baulking when I realised that Thunderbird wasn't going to import my Eudora address books (glitch in the system) but I somehow got around that by exporting my Eudora address book into a CSV file, rearranging the CSV file as per Thunderbird formatting, importing it into Thunderbird and then doing that again for every single group alias I had created in Eudora. (Don't worry if you didn't understand that; I'm just explaining why I didn't go to bed until 2 a.m. last night.) I still have to figure out how to bend Thunderbird to my will but at the moment I'm quite happy with it.
Tomorrow I graduate from Moore College ...
Blinks:
A way of funding writing in the future: pitch and idea and get people to support it.
Place where you can hire play equipment for parties, etc.
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
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Yay! Congrats on the new computer—and on graduating!