@Media 2007
Posted: Thu 18 January, 2007 Filed under: @Media2007, Geeky, Getting Organised Leave a comment »I had an email when I got home last night from Vivabit saying that the registration for @Media 2007 is now open.
I went last year, and it was well worth it. However, I doubt that my current workplace would stump up for it, even the £400 plus VAT for an “Early Bird” ticket. So I’ve paid for it myself. I might get it back at some point, I suppose.
But regardless, it’ll be worth going to. So I’m not worried either way, I’m just happy I’ve got my ticket…
SatNav
Posted: Sat 6 January, 2007 Filed under: Geeky, Travel 2 Comments »Over the weekend, swearwords may be issued. (I know, that’s hardly a shocking revelation)
We’ve invested in a TomTom 710 Sat-Nav for the car. Lots of people we know have recommended TomTom products, so we’ll give it a thrash, see how things work out.
Oh, and that RRP of £350? Nope, didn’t pay anywhere even close to that – Amazon had it on for £100 less so we got it there instead.
As we get used to it, I’m sure a review will follow…
Bloody Expensive
Posted: Wed 13 December, 2006 Filed under: Customer Services, Geeky 1 Comment »Having lost it yesterday, and having absolutely no idea where the spare one is since we moved (it’s in a box…) I had to nip out at lunchtime today and buy a set of spare stylii for the XDA.
£10 for three ?!?
Fucking hell. Still, that’ll teach me for losing the bugger. Ah well.
Local Cooling – One Week On
Posted: Fri 8 December, 2006 Filed under: Geeky, Getting Organised, Green Leave a comment »Well, it’s a week since I talked about Local Cooling, and in that week, I’ve apparently saved 5KWh of electricity, which works out as quarter of a tree, or 2.3 barrels of oil.
In that week, Local Cooling has gained about 9,000 users – and while obviously some users will be better than others when it comes to saving energy, it still makes for a lot of people starting to get the idea about saving energy.
And that’s got to be a good thing!
Paste’n’Go
Posted: Thu 7 December, 2006 Filed under: Customer Services, Geeky, Weirdness 1 Comment »One other thing (which Jann mentions in a comment below) I experienced yesterday with Firefox was that all of a sudden all my keyboard shortcuts stopped working.
I couldn’t use [tab] to switch between form fields (which is one of the things I do a lot of, for some godforsaken reason) , couldn’t use Ctrl+Enter in the address bar, nowt.
Turns out, it’s a bug in the Paste’n’Go extension – that had an update yesterday as well, and it just blew the keyboard shortcuts away.
If you disable that extension, all the keyboard shortcuts come back…
Passwords etc.
Posted: Wed 6 December, 2006 Filed under: Geeky, Getting Organised 2 Comments »For some reason, this morning, my Firefox install at work has decided to blank out all my remembered passwords and so on. I don’t know why – I haven’t done a clean-up of my saved private data or anything, and it’s bloody annoying.
At the same time, it’s probably a good thing – there were a couple of sites where I’d forgotten the password myself, and was just relying on Firefox to remember it (which is just another of the reasons I like Firefox in the first place) but now I’ve had to go on and get it changed.
All the same, though, I’d really like to know why the poxy thing decided to develop e-Alzheimers…