Category Archives: geekiness

multi-tasking az

28 Wednesday Jan 2009

Posted by in blogging, cancer, friends, gadgets, geekiness, hope, internet, life stuff, work

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multitasker

I’m so busy these days it’s just crazy!

At last count I have four “jobs” … or at least four projects I’m working on that I hope will turn into money-making ventures.  The only one actually bringing in any cashola at the moment is teaching, though since I started back in mid-January I’ve only had three classes a week. I should double that amount next month, with Ricardo and Pilar (from The Team) and maybe Bosco coming back.  But even though this is not nearly enough to live on, Pip & I have already decided that the focus for me in February should be Health and New Projects.  To wit, I plan on expanding on my morning gym time next week to include working out on the machines a bit after yoga classes (M-W-F) and also starting back with Pilates classes (T-T). Monday to Thursday I’ll have English classes at home between 6-9 pm. And the rest of the time? It looks like I’m going to be crazy busy…

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first step – google maps

20 Tuesday Jan 2009

Posted by in blogging, food & drink, geekiness, photos, sevilla, spain, tapas, work

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Sevilla Tapas Map

Yesterday morning I went to yoga class and then came home to ride The Bike for an hour (go me!). I was also helping Nog with a temp job doing exam prep stuff for an English school and trying to figure out how to update my WordPress, so I didn’t get round to looking at the first “baby step task” on my list until after lunch.  This was to put google maps on the tapas blog so that people could see the locations with just one click.  Before I knew it, it was 8 o’clock and my one class of the day was at the door – and I was still in my sit-around-the-house clothes (eep!). But as it was an old student/friend coming back after a few years it didn’t matter … much.

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updating wordpress

20 Tuesday Jan 2009

Posted by in blogging, computers, geekiness, internet

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Can anyone help me with this?

I have three self-hosted WordPress blogs (azahar-sevilla and the two tapas blogs) that are running on a very old WP version and I would like to upgrade them to the present 2.7 version.  I was given some very helpful information by Pauline, who informed me that because my version is so old (2.2.2) I would have to upgrade in increments. She also sent me this link so I could download the in between versions (2.3 and 2.5). And then I came across this support forum page in which whooami explains the steps needed to recover a blog after a failed upgrade, which also explains how to upgrade in imcrements.  But I can’t seem to get it enough to dare making the changes myself. And this kind of needs to be done before I can start with this week’s “baby step tasks”.

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converting to metric

09 Friday Jan 2009

Posted by in geekiness, humour

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converting_to_metric

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This is hilarious.  But it’s also true about “establishing new reference points”.  I remember when Canada started changing over to metric they did it little by little. I was about 17 when the temperatures switched to Celsius and I made a conscious effort to change my reference points instead of constantly “translating”. And it worked.  In fact, I stopped being able to relate to Fahrenheit temperatures at all. I wasn’t quite so successful with length, speed and volume but, since I moved to Spain, I no longer relate to pounds and ounces.

How about you? Are you metricised?

~ from the fabulous xkcd ~