26
Sep
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by Darren
Since my wayward youth extravagances at London night clubs hit a hiatus, Friday nights aren’t the glitter and neon affairs they used to be. That isnt to say they aren’t full of fun and frolics, just not the hedonistic hightimes that some get up to. Last Friday inparticular was a case in hand.
I sat down in front of the home laptop and thought about being highly creative with the software on offer. However, I got no further than the power button. I was greeted with a ‘can’t boot’ error that I knew wasn’t good. After trying various things it seemed I had unwittingly deleted too much of what windows needed to start.
So, a quick trip to the bios to change the boot sequence, a quick rummage in the DVD pile to find the recovery discs and then the wait as windows reinstalled. I didn’t lose anything important due to backing up but it is the time it takes to put back the programs and get the system back to where you want it that takes the time.
But that wasn’t all the digital fun I had over the weekend. When I logged into my various self-hosted websites I found that I had lost the sidebars. Losing anything online is foolish but when you know that the mistake is yours, and it is down to some piece of coding somewhere, your heart sinks. So off I toddle into a mass of php, css and html. I find the problem after one or two abortive attempts, fix it and feel strangely proud – after all it was my mistake in the first place.
So, what am I thankful for this week in no order?:
- Recovery discs
- Back-up plans
- Disqus
- Aviary
- Sunny skies
- BBC Click
- Feedly
This post is in: Digital
and tagged: coding, websites, windows
21
Sep
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by Darren
Well five years ago this blog began. Back then it was hosted on blogger, and I still do a bit of chatting over there to this day. But for five years this has been my primary place of residence. It has gone through several iterations but then that is life.
I haven’t posted as regularly as I would have liked, but then I do post quite a lot elsewhere. Looking at the posting stats it seems I have posted about once a week. Considering all that goes on in my little domain I think that’s probably quite a good rate.
I still have a lot of plans for this blog and perhaps at some point I will get around to putting then into place. Currently though, this little piece of personal blogging real estate isn’t at the top of the to do pile. I suppose this is a note to the blog itself, saying I haven’t forgotten you, I still come here regularly and I am overjoyed that we have spent the last five years sharing some inane banter with the cyberverse.
Seven things to be thankful for spans five years today:
- Blogger
- Dreamhost
- Xilo
- Wordpress
- Scribefire
- Live writer
- Michael Owen
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and tagged: blogday
13
Sep
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by Darren
I seem to have spent most of the last couple of weeks trying to organise a whole lot of online identities and applications that have multiplied exponentially. This is in part due to the interest in lifestreaming but also because things were getting in such a mess I really did feel like too many people.
The main bulk of this last week has been getting Thunderbird to link to my gmail account and a couple of other email accounts I have. That worked quite well and with the wind in my sail I proceeded to add the calendar function to Thunderbird and link that to gmail.
On a roll I then thought it was high time that my mobile syncing software was up to scratch. So after a trip to the SonyEricsson website, a quite download and upgrade, I had that synced too. Unfortunately I am unable to sync that to Thunderbird at the moment, but at least it is talking to my laptop, which it wasn’t before.
This week’s to be thankful for list is, in no particular order:
- ATMs
- Parents
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- AA insurance
- TheBigPic
- Dilbert
- Free thinking
This post is in: Lifestreams, Personal
and tagged: gmail, thunderbird
09
Sep
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by Darren
I’m implementing a whole load of life-changers today. They are all aimed at making me a better person.
Why today?
Well, I thought the date would be a good one to focus on; 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th year. And then why not at 9 minutes past 9 to make it even more significant.
The initial focus is on health and I’ll share more as I get into my stride. But suffice to say, there is no more fat pepsi going into my system.
Although the change starts today, I am not implementing everything in one go. I’ll be adding little by little, one thing at a time. Here goes.
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and tagged: development, health, Personal
03
Sep
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by Darren
For the first time in two years I won’t be using a Moleskine diary. For 2010 something else has taken my loyalty. A Wainwright was a walker and recorder of those walks from the last century. And his love was of the Cumbrian fells.
He basically journalled his way through this beautiful countryside. Anyway, whilst on holiday this year, I spotted a diary for 2010 that was illustrated with several of his pages. One look and I was hooked. So, for at least a year, I won’t be using any of the Moleskine diaries… that isn’t to say that I won’t be using Moleskine for anything else.
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and tagged: diary, moleskine, wainwright
