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Paypal protects sellers from buyers

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

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 seemed like days ferrying the laptop to a local computer shop to have it evaluated, chase up those guys, collecting it back (repairing the damn bike in the interim), faxing the evaluation to PayPal (essentially it said ‘beyond repair’ which at least vindicated me, even if I had to shell out 15 quid for it) and chasing up a response which came, oddly enough, on Sunday. Meanwhile, Paypal had spent the entire time nagging me that their deadline would run out on Monday.

Now I’ve received another message: I am required to return the thing to the seller, paying for postage and packaging myself. I have to do it now; and even though I have invested so much time in this that by now I could have bought a new laptop from the money I could have earned, I have to log on regularly and provide tracking information and stand by for further action. And even then I may not get a refund for the original �194+ I paid for the thing, but only for the Paypal maximum protection of 100-odd quid, which has been mostly usurped by the fees and postage I had to pay in order to qualify for the refund in the first place.

The seller isn’t liable to refund any of this. He’s probably also free to re-advertise the laptop on Ebay and rip off the next sucker. Nice little earner.

Never, EVER, buy anything of value on Ebay! Never!

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COR14 the never-ending Saga

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

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 keyboard drive in ROM. If it did, there would be no problems!

Yep, the saga ain’t over. Here’s what I wrote to BlueNomad support today:

[read on]

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COR13 Curse of the Missing Text

Monday, October 31st, 2005

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 file over 3 days. It contains most of the scientific notes for my NaNo novel. Still, I should be grateful that it seems to be intact on the Palm itself.

That part which has been converted has lost all formatting and random page breaks have been inserted everywhere. I dare not write large documents on this wretched machine!

After re-saving the file (making sure to select ‘save as text’), my card-reader cum card is now stuck in the USB hub. Windows (I’m not a fan of Windows!) first failed to recognize the disk, then failed to open it and now fails to stop it. The red light shines menacingly at me: I dare not remove the thing.

Some malware has entered the system. I dare not restart it.

Happy Halloween

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COR 12: The Final Setup

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

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 on]

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I’m fed up! (COR 10)

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

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 I’m fully prepared to limp on with a trial version. At this rate, I’m almost prepared to chalk my novel onto slate, once I hit the road. Which begs the question: what is all that IT hoolabaloo for, exactly.
[read on]

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COR 9: running around in circles, tearing out my hair

Friday, October 21st, 2005

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 on]

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Cursed Wednesday continued (COR 8)

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

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, but they do tend to coincide with PMT, and its accompanying sense of stubborness.

The Wordsmith upgrade did not install properly on the Palm. I don’t know why; the version number seemed right (certainly no longer a pre-millenial version) but there was no VFS support which I needed for my SD cards. The nice people at Blue Nomad mailed me another file which to all intents and purposes was identical to the one on John’s harddrive, and that worked. I have no explanation for this. But while I’m slightly vexed, I don’t mind inexplicable things so long as they work.

What really gets me down are things that inexplicably fail to work.
[read on]

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(COR7): Cursed Wednesday

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

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 with some other upgrades. The good news is that now the 64MB Proporta Probackup card works—it did require the copy update which was not installed together with the desktop support package—and that means that the data on the card were not corrupted after all. Nice. And now I have two backup cards.

This would be spiffy if only I had a working version of Wordsmith as well. The one that came with my clearance-sale Logitech keyboard pre-dates the turn of the millenium. The later versions all have Virtual File System support which means that they can save documents directly onto SD cards. Or so they claim.

I got so carried away with reading the manual that I paid my 30 dollars registration fee with no further hesitation. So today we uploaded the latest, shiny version onto my freshly re-vamped Palm. Thank God I did not download the registration key as well since John had to rush off to work: when I opened my sparkling new version of WS there was no VFS support anywhere in sight. I’m back at square one: my Palm is still a dumb device that can’t do anything without being wedded to my husband’s Windoze machine.

I want to take the damn thing half-way around the world, damnit! I’m sick of it. I’m chucking in this writing game!

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Ebay ripoff: join the club!

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

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 on]

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General update (COR6)

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

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 is easy to switch to full screen mode when typing and recover toolbars as needed). Particular useful features for writers: comments and bookmarks can be inserted ad libitum (very useful for plotting!) and the switch between ‘edit’ and ‘view’ mode happens at a tap on the button. In ‘view’ mode there are three different scrolling options, each with variable speed, and it is also possible to jump to paragraphs or bookmarks. In short, it is a thing of beauty and even the newest version will fit smugly onto my Palm. I’m off to register, it’s worth the thirty bucks!

Today, my Palm backup card arrived (16MB, brand new, from Ebay) and it works like a dream. My entire palm can now be backed up at a tap and restored just as easily so I can relax about battery changes (i.e. use the backlight, invest in a games card or read some ebooks: the m125 for everyday—not just for work but also play!)

I’ve just ordered a Highlander ‘Voyager’ mozzi net. I have also looked at travel insurance policies (for the over 40s), but it turns out that I need exact dates, so book flights first. This is getting serious!

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