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speedy gonzales

14 Tuesday Jun 2011

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Calling all geeks – I need your help!

Why has my wireless mouse suddenly turned into Speedy Gonzales? It’s gone all hyper and double clicks when I just single click, or else takes me to pages I haven’t even clicked on. As for copy and paste – aack! Can’t get the thing to stay put long enough to select a link or piece of text and I end up with the hover thing disappearing before I can copy or – worse! – the whole text disappearing, even though I hadn’t clicked again to erase it. Other times I have to click on something five times for it to “take”.

Anyhow, it’s driving me crazy and costing me lots of lost time online.  Just writing this simple post is taking forever because Speedy keeps highlighting things when I just place the cursor somewhere to start typing, and then immediately deletes whatever got highlighted. Arrrgh. Or is it even a mouse problem?

Ayudame?

easyjet az

06 Wednesday Apr 2011

Posted by in blogging, computers, culture, fiestas, friends, internet, iphone, sevilla, social media, spam, twitter, work

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Yesterday evening I was thrilled when I got an email from Annie Manson saying that while flying from Geneva to Málaga she’d seen me mentioned and quoted in the EasyJet’s April Inflight magazine, and congratulating me on such a great PR coup. At first I was totally flummoxed as I had no idea why I would be in there, then when I saw the article (about the Feria in Sevilla) written by Derek Workman, I remembered meeting Derek for tapas a while back and spending a pleasant leisurely lunchtime chatting about Sevilla stuff. He was in town doing research for this article as EasyJet was about to launch a new London-Sevilla route in April. So that was quite exciting! If you want to read the article (which starts on page 50) you’ll have to register, which is a bit of a pain but only takes a minute.

Anyhow, after a few emails back and forth to Annie I got into bed with my iPhone to read a few last tweets and emails before sleeping and saw that one of my favourite tapas bars was mentioned in an article by Shaney Hudson, an Australian travel writer now living in Holland who was here on a research visit last autumn. Then I saw that my tapas tours got a personal recommendation from Shaney in her Essential Guide to Sevilla (!!!). How cool is that?

All of which has me thinking this morning about all the amazing connections I’ve made, and continue to make, via my blogs, Twitter and – okay I admit it – even Facebook.  I’ve made friends and biz contacts, and have also found work, as a result of not only sitting in front of my laptop (or with iPhone in hand) several hours a day, but also by going out to meet many of these people when they are in town. Which of course I love as one of my favourite things to do is show people “my Sevilla” and especially take them out for tapas. So anyone who still thinks social media is silly is, well, silly.  😉

 

 

scarlett

23 Wednesday Feb 2011

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Meet Scarlett. This tiny 7cm x 11cm external HD has 500 GBs and I was way overdue for a backup. Of course, I have this other LaCie HD that I bought almost three years ago… well, I have it somewhere.

Something very weird has been going on here with things we have unpacked and know we have held in our hands and that are now nowhere to be found. First it was Nog’s hair trimmer. He’d used it to trim his beard but we couldn’t do a haircut because it was low on juice and he couldn’t find the charger. Then he found the charger and – you guessed it – now can’t find the trimmer. Last week I saw the LaCie HD on the living room table. This morning I found the USB cable, but no HD. And yesterday a DVD I’d been meaning to watch is no longer, well, anywhere. It’s crazy.

And so, I was supposed to get together yesterday with the fearless Ana, who helped me move, to help her set up a blog and other social media stuff. But she got in touch to say her laptop had collapsed and she had to take it to computer hospital. And then she said – “thank goodness everything is backed up” – and I felt a chill down my spine. Shadow hasn’t been backed up since … well, I can’t remember. Which sent me on a massive house search for my HD, which then sent me over to FNAC to buy this new gadget. Well, as Mudhooks has pointed out before, it’s prudent to have back-up copies on more than one external HD, and my old one was actually too small. So now that I have this new back-up HD I’m sure my old one will turn up some time today.

In other news, my iPod – which has been missing in action since The Move – has finally been found! In fact, it was in the very place I thought I’d put it (my laptop bag), which I checked about a gazillion times these past three weeks, but then suddenly it was there! Perhaps the same thing will happen with all the other mysteriously missing articles. I suspect Loki…