August 07, 2006
Untapped talent
From early morning to early evening, Radio One plays the same songs in a seemingly endless loop. The digital radio selection in Greater Tadley is no better (with the possible exception of One Xtra, but they keep blowing a foghorn...Read this update
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July 18, 2006
My new Sharp Zaurus SL-C3200
My new Sharp Zaurus SL-C3200 has arrived. At under 300g its swivel-screen clamshell hides a fully functional keyboard and tiny colour display, its sides are fringed with orifices: a USB port, SD card slot and a Cf slot. In fact,...Read this update
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April 07, 2006
Yahoo email hassles
That's it. I can't even send emails from my own account to my personal contacts without having to fill out a character recognition field for every message I compose. In an effort to limit spam, yahoo has decreed me a...Read this update
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November 17, 2005
PayPal protects sellers (2)
Sent off the laptop and provided PayPal with the tracking number, as requested. Or rather, John sent it off, because I could not find the time (neither can he, but he's the one with the car). Phew, that's it. Er...no....Read this update
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November 16, 2005
COR15--The conclusion.
The Palm stays at home! Might take the card reader, in case I get that camera. I don't now why this makes me feel naked when I have never in fact travelled with a PDA before. On a final note,...Read this update
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November 15, 2005
Paypal protects sellers from buyers
More hassles. It seems that everybody is conspiring against me finishing my NaNovel—as if it would matter to the Gods... It does, however, matter to me. Life is throwing its bickering, little irritations at me. Last week, I spent what...Read this update
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COR14 the never-ending Saga
Understand that ALL of my problems during these two months (yes, it will have been exactly two months by the time I'll step on that plane) derive from the fact that the Palm m125 has no word processing software and...Read this update
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October 31, 2005
COR13 Curse of the Missing Text
Unlucky 13... Shouldn't be working on Halloween's Eve anyway, not even to sort out some minor details. My file has only partly been converted to RTF; by that I mean that most of it is missing. I worked on that...Read this update
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October 30, 2005
COR 12: The Final Setup
This seems to be it. My Palm has achieved indepndence from the desktop and I am ready to hit the road. Here is the final setup:...Read this update
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October 22, 2005
I'm fed up! (COR 10)
So, the Palm backup card didn't work and it trashed what was once a beautiful system. The Wordsmith backup on my SD card comprises a trial version, which may be better than nothing. I paid for the whole hog, but...Read this update
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October 21, 2005
COR 9: running around in circles, tearing out my hair
9 days to go until start of NaNoWriMo; 1 month until I'm on the plane to Bangkok and I still don't have a working PDA....Read this update
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October 06, 2005
Cursed Wednesday continued (COR 8)
There are days when you should just give up. Go back to bed. Delegate where you can. Go to the pub. Any effort to make things better will only make them worse. Luckily, these days are few and far between,...Read this update
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October 05, 2005
(COR7): Cursed Wednesday
I really could scream. Nothing is going right today. I had to wait an entire week before John could find the time to use his Windoze laptop to hotsynch the latest version of WordSmith onto my Palm this morning, along...Read this update
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Ebay ripoff: join the club!
For the last couple of days I woke up in a stinky mood. It isn't just the subdued, grey autum light which makes me unfailingly grumpy; it's when I remember the laptop. Don't—ever—buy a second-hand laptop on Ebay....Read this update
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October 01, 2005
General update (COR6)
Yesterday I spent a little time with my Wordsmith manual, playing with the program, and I must say I'm hooked. WS offers all the usual word processor formatting options, but it is optimised for display on Palm's tiny screen (it...Read this update
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September 30, 2005
Computing on the Road 5: Palm Patches
The m125 may actually be a really bad idea... Is it the last model Palm released with AAA batteries? If so, we're stuck with a bad thing. I have never patched so much, and I haven't even used my device...Read this update
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September 28, 2005
Computing on the Road 4: Backup
This entry has been edited 29/09. The Palm manual is a mere 2MB (and 200 pges) long and I'm studying it today :} Christmas arrived early ;) The chaps at Ebay are speedy, most of the time. Except for the...Read this update
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September 27, 2005
Will it ever end? (Computing on the Road 3)
Now here's a surprise: There is currently no reliable Open Source word processing software for Palm <OS 4.0 (but check out the exellent Tejpwriter (from Swedish for 'tape') for OS 5.0). And here are the problems I have with what...Read this update
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September 26, 2005
Computing on the Road (2): the Saga Continues.
No matter what people say (and I know there are many cultist devotees), the Palm (any Palm as far as I'm concerned) is a pile of shit. Sure, it was never designed to work as an independent unit which will...Read this update
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September 25, 2005
Getting ready: Computing on the Road (1)
My Palm m125 arrived last week. For those scratching their heads: the Palm m125 is a PDA which was state-of-the-art Anno 2000 with 8 Megs Ram (yeah, that's right, 8 Megs and a monochrome screen. But it has an SD...Read this update
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September 02, 2005
They should be lined up...
...and shot! Who? The untrained monkeys at PayPal and Ebay!...Read this update
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July 14, 2005
On the Cusp of new Technology
Three weeks to go until WorldCon! I'm excited; I have never been to a convention before but imagine it to be like a conference with only fun items on the agenda. There is actually an 'academic' programe where stern people...Read this update
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June 26, 2005
The Gremlins are lose
I am at the end of my tether with all things writing-connected. Blogger has deleted my blogs, and this grates enormously. My blogs may not have had many readers, they may not have been particularly interesting or well-written, but they...Read this update
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June 21, 2005
Bad Apples and other gripes
Still at the old computer but I got a new, tiny mouse and that feels almost like a whole new machine :)...Read this update
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June 16, 2005
Goodbye Computer
After eight years of faithful service, we are about to retire our computer. It has served us well and it could hobble along for a bit longer with memory upgrades, but it is as far from today's PCs as a...Read this update
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June 08, 2005
Ooops
Re. my indignance when Boots (the Chemist!) didn't supply my pictures as jpeg files on the photo CD—well, today John tried to decipher the thing on his labtop and encountered reams upon reams of legalese about a license for a...Read this update
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June 06, 2005
There has got to be an Alternative...
..or are we all to be irrevocably assimilated by evil conglomerates? The other day, I got my Bay of Bisay pictures back and so I wanted (finally!) to blog about that magical day at sea. So this morning I sat...Read this update
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January 31, 2005
COMMENT SPAMMERS
I'm sick of the comment spambots that target this blog. Since nobody is talking to me anyway, I'll close the comment options on new posts from now on (if I remember). The spam is targeted at posts about 2-3 weeks...Read this update
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May 07, 2004
Text embedding
If anybody is following this blog, you may have noticed bits of text missing from the "extended entry" field. I'm still finding my feet with this which is not so easy with my husband's LINUX setup and an old version...Read this update
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