Hopeful Little Moments

PC Company used to have good products, but that was before I bought my computer with it’s extended warranty, which was just before they went bust. So I had this computer that worked but was buggy, and no warranty to rely on. Apparently (as heard from repair techs) I am even lucky that my monitor has behaved this long. I have replaced the floppy drive and the CD drive and the USB ports (and the new USB ports are causing a conflict…grrr!).The case is huge and seems to have an inner vortex that sucks dust in. The power supply is again erratic and I desperately want a new and reliable computer.

Therefore posting will be sporadic. I have small windows of opportunity to check my email and do other computer and internet stuff. I am surprised that the uptime is currently 2 days.

links for 2006-12-05

Midwifery Council of New Zealand

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links for 2006-12-04

The Leading Provider of FREE Web Polls - Freepolls.com

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Flickr - Photo Sharing

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Enrolled

Instead of procrastinating I have done an online enrolment to start my postgraduate studies…yay!

Easier bookmarking

I use del.icio.us, Spurl and Furl and have found a way to post to all 3. Introducing OnlyWire which can also post to quite a few other bookmarking services as well.

Add to this the GreaseMonkey dejalicious script and I am enjoying bookmarking again. Forget categorising and share the tagging and bookmarking love!

Blackberry

Looks like the Blackberry was working but this post came through blank. So more tweaking to do.

Background Switcher

I use John’s Background Switcher (www.backgroundswitcher.com) which means I can have Flickr photos as my background and they automatically change. I use all the Flickr photos I have as “Favourites” which makes for wonderful eye candy.

I also use Slickr (http://cellardoorsw.com/?page_id=4) for my screensaver which also uses Flickr photos, but for this one I use my own photos uploaded to Flickr. The benefit of this is that it is like a slideshow the kids can watch with photos of themselves and the family.

Both of these can also use photos from your own computer.

See more progress on: declare 8/27-9/2 Share Your Wallpaper for Stacey’s Birthday Week

Started scanning old photos

In down time in my volunteer role I have started the scanning process.

See more progress on: scan all my old photographs

Wow!

Wood pigeon: Originally uploaded by KiwiNessie.

I got an email today via Flickr from someone interested in displaying my image as part of a Te Papa display. I don’t know if it will pan out, but all I can say is “Wow!”