Upgrading, organising and other stuff ending in ing

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:

  1. ATMs
  2. Parents
  3. Mozilla Thunderbird
  4. AA insurance
  5. TheBigPic
  6. Dilbert
  7. Free thinking
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Time for a Mac?

Well after seemingly fixing the email fault with Outlook it continued to return intermittently.

  • give up on Outlook – Microsoft are of the devil
  • install Mozilla Thunderbird
  • Mozilla are not of the devil
  • Test Thunderbird
  • Thunderbird doesn’t work either
  • recheck settings
  • Thunderbird has same intermittent fault as Outlook
  • Apologise to Microsoft, Outlook and all the little Microserfs who created it and do a wonderful job keeping it updated
  • Uninstall Thunderbird – no point in having two redundant email clients
  • check facebook
  • facebook down for maintenance
  • facebook is of the devil
  • realise that the only thing that could affect both Outlook and Thunderbird is Norton
  • (now worry about whether I have used the right word, affect or effect – can’t be bothered to check dictionary)
  • turn off all of Norton and live update (I’m not getting caught out like before)
  • Uninstall all of the Security software on the PC
  • Hope that the PC doesn’t get attacked whilst doing this delicate operation
  • test Outlook, it works
  • Reinstall security software – restart a silly number of times
  • test Outlook, it works
  • scan PC to check I haven’t been attacked
  • wait silly amount of time
  • sleep

If anyone feels called to buy me one of these please feel free to leave a message in the comments

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