Thursday 29 September 2011
New Blogger Layouts
Just thought I would try on a new 'coat' for the winter - do you like? Still a bit glitchy and you may need to update your browser for them to display properly. I really like the Flipcard option, check them out and see what you think!
Wednesday 28 September 2011
Google+
Tuesday 27 September 2011
Social Networks?
Am I the only one who is getting seriously fed up with Facebook and all the updates and changes and am I the only one who thinks Facebook is getting seriously creepy as well? I thought I was being very careful about who could read and access my posts...it appears I was wrong...beware 'Friends of Friends' who are not (and you don't want them to be or you would have accepted their invite) your friends.
I have been playing around with Google+ and so far I like it...if only I could get more people to switch over perhaps then I would be able to stop talking to myself...
I have been playing around with Google+ and so far I like it...if only I could get more people to switch over perhaps then I would be able to stop talking to myself...
Monday 19 September 2011
Tuesday 13 September 2011
Tuesday musings...
I am trying hard at the moment to catch up on the last few 'things' and I am finding it very difficult. It's not because I don't like the topics because I do and they are all very interesting and relevant. I think perhaps, it's because I just don't want it all to end!!!!
Anyway this morning on the bus on the way into work, I realised that I have my best ideas on the bus on the way into work and I also decided that I have the very worst memory ever because I can never remember what my best bus ideas are once I get into work!
So, I thought I would kill two birds with one stone and try using Google Docs on my phone to jot down my best bus ideas before they slipped out of brain, never to inspire me again. So out come the glasses, as I can no longer see clearly without them, and while sometimes it gives me a very pleasant feeling when everything is fuzzy round the edges, sitting on the bus and trying to type into my phone is not one of those times.
This was not one of my better bus ideas! First of all I had to contend with the speed freak of a bus driver, who insisted on some occasions hitting the speed bumps at about 90mph, and on other occasions trying to avoid the speed bumps at all costs and drive in the teeny, tiny, teeny, little dips between them!
So, between flying up every time we hit the bumps and swerving left and right to avoid the bumps I couldn't even see the key pad to type, because not only would my specs not stay on, I needed both hands to hang on for dear life!
I then decided that this little experiment had failed miserably and that I would do it the old fashioned way - with pen and paper. Now the pen was no problem at all, in fact I think I might have a pen problem, because I have about twenty(ish) of them in my bag! I wonder is there a word for that? I can just see everyone madly googling 'pen fetish' now to see if there is. I have pens of all different colours, ink as well as casings, I have fat ones and thin ones, I have cheap ones and expensive ones, I have ones that I have found and ones that I have bought and some that I came by... hhmm... shall we say nefariously? My favourite pen at the moment has purple ink, yes, I definitely have a pen problem!
The paper was a different story. I didn't have a scrap of paper in my bag on which to write down my very best bus ideas, can you believe that? No old gas/electricity/phone bill in my bag, because I am madly saving the planet one bill at a time, and as I have gone all paperless, that also means no grotty old envelops either!
It transpires that the only paper I had in my bag was the paper notes in my purse and I won't be using them to jot down my very best bus ideas, mainly, because I have lots and lots and lots of ideas and very little cash!
All this means of course is that I have to buy myself a nice little hard back notebook, so that I can write down my very best bus ideas while I am on the bus, but you know what that also means? I will also have to buy myself a nice little pen to go with the nice little hard back notebook, can't have one without the other now can I?
Anyway this morning on the bus on the way into work, I realised that I have my best ideas on the bus on the way into work and I also decided that I have the very worst memory ever because I can never remember what my best bus ideas are once I get into work!
So, I thought I would kill two birds with one stone and try using Google Docs on my phone to jot down my best bus ideas before they slipped out of brain, never to inspire me again. So out come the glasses, as I can no longer see clearly without them, and while sometimes it gives me a very pleasant feeling when everything is fuzzy round the edges, sitting on the bus and trying to type into my phone is not one of those times.
This was not one of my better bus ideas! First of all I had to contend with the speed freak of a bus driver, who insisted on some occasions hitting the speed bumps at about 90mph, and on other occasions trying to avoid the speed bumps at all costs and drive in the teeny, tiny, teeny, little dips between them!
So, between flying up every time we hit the bumps and swerving left and right to avoid the bumps I couldn't even see the key pad to type, because not only would my specs not stay on, I needed both hands to hang on for dear life!
I then decided that this little experiment had failed miserably and that I would do it the old fashioned way - with pen and paper. Now the pen was no problem at all, in fact I think I might have a pen problem, because I have about twenty(ish) of them in my bag! I wonder is there a word for that? I can just see everyone madly googling 'pen fetish' now to see if there is. I have pens of all different colours, ink as well as casings, I have fat ones and thin ones, I have cheap ones and expensive ones, I have ones that I have found and ones that I have bought and some that I came by... hhmm... shall we say nefariously? My favourite pen at the moment has purple ink, yes, I definitely have a pen problem!
The paper was a different story. I didn't have a scrap of paper in my bag on which to write down my very best bus ideas, can you believe that? No old gas/electricity/phone bill in my bag, because I am madly saving the planet one bill at a time, and as I have gone all paperless, that also means no grotty old envelops either!
It transpires that the only paper I had in my bag was the paper notes in my purse and I won't be using them to jot down my very best bus ideas, mainly, because I have lots and lots and lots of ideas and very little cash!
All this means of course is that I have to buy myself a nice little hard back notebook, so that I can write down my very best bus ideas while I am on the bus, but you know what that also means? I will also have to buy myself a nice little pen to go with the nice little hard back notebook, can't have one without the other now can I?
Thursday 8 September 2011
Beam me up Scotty...
It all began 45 years ago today and we have a lot to thank it for... mobile phones ...the iPad...and what about the Medical Tricorder...even NASA thanked them for their inspiration in a tweet today!
That's right Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) is celebrating its 45th Anniversary today!!
The original show only ran for three seasons, and I loved it...from the shaky sets, to the obviously fake rocks, to the even more obviously fake aliens, to the theme tune...ah the memories, but I can't really call myself a Trekkie/Trekker. I don't remember every episode, I don't go to conventions dressed up as my favourite character (as far as you know) and I can't recite dialogue word for word and I definitely don't know a word of Klingon!!
All I know is that it inspired in a me a love of Science Fiction TV which has stayed with me all these years...I've watched all the Star Trek incarnations, I even enjoyed Voyager and Enterprise, I was never sure about the theme song though (sung by Russell Watson!!). I've seen all the movies...and avidly look forward to the next one!
Of all the Captains, which is my favourite one? Well, that would be telling wouldn't it?
LLAP
That's right Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) is celebrating its 45th Anniversary today!!
The original show only ran for three seasons, and I loved it...from the shaky sets, to the obviously fake rocks, to the even more obviously fake aliens, to the theme tune...ah the memories, but I can't really call myself a Trekkie/Trekker. I don't remember every episode, I don't go to conventions dressed up as my favourite character (as far as you know) and I can't recite dialogue word for word and I definitely don't know a word of Klingon!!
All I know is that it inspired in a me a love of Science Fiction TV which has stayed with me all these years...I've watched all the Star Trek incarnations, I even enjoyed Voyager and Enterprise, I was never sure about the theme song though (sung by Russell Watson!!). I've seen all the movies...and avidly look forward to the next one!
Of all the Captains, which is my favourite one? Well, that would be telling wouldn't it?
LLAP
Saturday 3 September 2011
this and that
I'm liking the new blogger interface. Everything Googlely ties in together nicely as I've also switched to the new gmail interface as well, all very Google+ which I'm also liking - though I haven't used it very much yet!Oh and has anybody else noticed that QR codes are cropping up everywhere now?
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