Category Archives: computers

christmas conference calls

06 Saturday Dec 2008

Posted by in christmas, computers, friends

≈ 16 Comments

lilytomlin

As it is now officially the Christmas Season I find myself in a festive mood. Especially as a couple of months ago I thought I would only have one more Christmas. And okay, there are obviously no guarantees, but I am a lot more hopeful than I was. Which is wonderful because I really do love Christmas. This weekend the tree and other decorations are going up at casa az.

So I had an idea. I was thinking that some of my blog friends (that’s you!) might like to get together some time on Christmas day for a short conference call on Skype with myself, Nog and other blog friends.  I did this once with zoomer, Anneke and others – there were five of us in total – and it was quite fun.

Anyhow, just throwing the idea out there.  If there is anyone in particular you’d like to chat with let me know and we can organise times based on where everyone is. And if you don’t have Skype yet you can download it by clicking on the link below and choosing your country.

Download Skype
My Skype name – azahar.sevilla

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twitter status generator

23 Sunday Nov 2008

Posted by in computers, geekiness, humour, internet

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twitter-gen-1

Sometimes the banalities of life just don’t make for solid Twitter status updates. Add a little mystery and confusion with the Twitter Status Generator.

I must admit that I still haven’t really got the hang of my Twitter page yet. But this looks like fun and the above tweet was scarily accurate. A few other generated tweets I liked were:

tweet-1Curiously hurt and floating with fish sticks.
tweet-1 Happily snuggled and staring at extinction.
tweet-1 Near hungry and sharing the point of existence.

What did you get?

Twitter Status Generator

~ via The Generator Blog ~

hanging out

20 Thursday Nov 2008

Posted by in cancer, computers, friends, health & happiness, hospitals, life stuff, scrabble

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hanging-out

Well, it’s a beautiful morning here … watched the sun come up about an hour ago, all apricot coloured on the horizon. Nog’s gone to the cafeteria to have brekky and then he’ll head home to shower, snibble the boys and probably make a few sandwiches for today. Although my op is scheduled for 3 o’clock it could really happen anytime after 11, so Nog wants to get back here by then.

The Team should be here soon for a quick visit (mostly to reassure me – they know how nervous I get). Then I’ll shower while my bedsheets are changed and after that just hang out, waiting for THEM to come and get me.

Hope I’ll be back soon. Or even just back (eep!) …

You’re probably getting a bit tired of sending best wishes, etc, so random chat would be just fine.
What are you guys up to today? 🙂

avg annoyance!

12 Wednesday Nov 2008

Posted by in computers, internet, rants

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avg

Yesterday Nog turned on his laptop and got the blue screen of death, saying something about a problem with the user32 dll file and recommended that the operating system be restored.  Turns out this problem was caused by his ‘free’ anti-virus, AVG, which had released an update that mistakenly identified the user32 dll file (a key Windows file) as a Trojan Horse virus.

Thing is, we’ve been trying to restore the OS using the CD but – so far – it doesn’t seem to be working. The instructions say the process could take 1-2 hours, after which the laptop will reboot itself. But after about 4 hours it was still going so we decided to exit and reboot manually … and got the blue screen again. So we’re trying it again. Bloody false positives!f_cross.gif

Has anyone else had this problem?

google chrome

21 Tuesday Oct 2008

Posted by in computers, geekiness, internet

≈ 13 Comments

Back in March I started using Safari as my back-up browser. But over the months I’ve been very frustrated at how very very s-l-o-w it is and so the other day I checked out Google Chrome. And I love it! It’s fast fast fast and has lots of coolisimo features. And casa az looks good on it too.

I still prefer Firefox and will continue to use it as my primary browser, but it’s fun having other options and set-ups.

Is there anybody out there still using IE?