I haven't posted here in a while ...
29-05-2013, 14:45Cruising, Travel, Web / Tech / BlogsPermalink… mainly because I send off the occasional tweet instead. As if I am so busy I can't take the time to write more than 140 characters. :) I am going to start blogging again, I think. If nothing else, it will help keep my writing skills sharp.
We have done a fair amount of traveling in the last year. I just posted photos from our most recent cruise on Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas. Pics from other trips to follow.
Below is a picture taken at Orient Beach in St. Martin (the French side of an island that is half French and half Dutch). Looking forward to our next trip to this beautiful place.
I [heart] Apple to death!
08-06-2010, 00:17Family / Misc. Personal, Lit / Art / Music /Photo, Web / Tech / BlogsPermalinkYou know how sometimes, when you find yourself surrounding by rude obnoxious people gabbing on cell phones, you wish the damn things had never been invented? Well, watch this iPhone commercial and think about it the next time the guy sitting behind you on the train takes out his cell phone and you want to smack him.
Directed by Sam Mendes. "When You're Smiling" sung by Louis Armstrong. Apple, you rock!
iTunes is currently playing: I Love To See You Smile by Randy Newman.
MoveMe / PCmover in Japanese
08-03-2010, 13:19Family / Misc. Personal, Web / Tech / BlogsPermalinkIsn't it cute? I wonder how many people worldwide have benefited from my husband's genius. :)
Japanese version of PCmover from Laplink (formerly known as MoveMe from Spearit Software). Above: front of box. Below: back of box.
iTunes is currently playing: Move It On Over from the album 20 of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits by Hank Williams.
I love love love ...
16-01-2010, 16:23Shopping, Web / Tech / BlogsPermalink... receiving packages from China. Chinese characters are so beautiful. They remind me of snowflakes.
Do you think that the characters circled in pink mean "United States"?
I also love Hello Kitty. And I love the bag I got from Hannah in China. Very reasonable. Very well made. Perfect handbag for traveling.
iTunes is currently playing: Visions Of China from the album Live in Tokyo December 1982 by Japan.
Evian Roller Babies
08-07-2009, 14:08Lit / Art / Music /Photo, Shopping, Web / Tech / BlogsPermalinkiTunes is currently playing:
Have You Seen My Baby from the album Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman by Randy Newman.I know ... bad hacker! bad!
29-01-2009, 12:22News / Sports, Web / Tech / BlogsPermalinkYou gotta love Austin!
iTunes is currently playing:
Shame from the album Bad Love by Randy Newman.If I hadn't seen this ad ...
03-01-2009, 15:38Real Estate, Religion/Ethics, Shopping, Web / Tech / BlogsPermalink
iTunes is currently playing: Girls Just Want to Have Fun from the album The Essential Cyndi Lauper by Cyndi Lauper.
The back-peddling begins ...
10-11-2008, 07:11News / Sports, Politics, Web / Tech / BlogsPermalinkOver the weekend President-elect Barack Obama scrubbed Change.gov, his transition Web site, deleting most of what had been a massive agenda copied directly from his campaign Web site.
Gone are the promises on how an Obama administration would handle 25 different agenda items - everything from Iraq and immigration to taxes and urban policy - all items laid out on his campaign Web site, www.BarackObama.com.
Instead, the official agenda on Change.gov has been boiled down to one vague paragraph proclaiming a plan “to revive the economy, to fix our health care, education, and social security systems, to define a clear path to energy independence, to end the war in Iraq responsibly and finish our mission in Afghanistan, and to work with our allies to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, among many other domestic and foreign policy objectives.”
“We are currently retooling the Web site,” said Obama spokesman Nick Shapiro.
The Kool-Aid should start to wear off soon.
iTunes is currently playing: I Was Only Telling A Lie from the album Dad Loves His Work by James Taylor.
New Years Resolution (for your computer)
04-01-2008, 17:17Web / Tech / BlogsPermalinkThe first is an online back-up system that everybody should sign up for ASAP. Yes, everybody! It doesn't matter if you are a Mac user like me or saddled with an inferior operating system like Windows. You should get yourself over to Mozy.com and sign up for their free account, which gives you two gigs of storage along with some nifty software to get your files from your computer to the Mozy site. (And did I mention that it is totally free?)
Mozy has a software client for both Windows and Mac OS X. The Mac client is still in beta, and although it is a bit quirky, it is very usable. And super easy! With either version, you can let the software make suggestions about what should be backed up OR select files and folders yourself.
If, like me, you have way more than two gigs worth of data files to back-up (I have already uploaded almost ten gigs), you can get upgrade to an account with UNLIMITED storage for $4.95 a month. And even if, like me, you have an external backup drive connected to your computer, you should still have your files stored at another location for an extra layer of protection. (If your house burns down, that external drive won't be much help, will it?)
(NOTE: If you have more than two gigs of data files to back up and some of them are images, make sure you sign up for a free Flickr account and use that to store your images. Then you can just use Mozy for the rest of your stuff.)
To set up either a free 2 gig account OR an unlimited paid account, click the Mozy banner to the right of this message. You WILL thank me! :)
... is currently playing: Save It for a Rainy Day from the album 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection ( Stephen Bishop )
by Stephen Bishop.It seems to work.
17-12-2007, 20:19Web / Tech / BlogsPermalink ... is currently playing: That's The Easy Part from the album Beth Nielsen Chapman by Beth Nielsen Chapman.
