Archive for April, 2005
April 20, 2005 at 7:40 am · Filed under Social Technology, Sweet Finds
Last.FM is the best thing that has happened to my ears in a while. Online radio for the people, built by the people. You have a profile, you listen to music while working away on your ‘puter, the music gets added to your playlist. You can also listen to profile radio stations online and that music gets added to your playlist as well. Once your playlist is substantial enough, a profile radio station is created from it and those of others with similar listening interests to you. You get stats on what you and other people are listening to. You can add friends, neighbors are added for you. It’s social networking with music. Incredible. I recommend trying right NOW!
April 19, 2005 at 9:55 am · Filed under Computers, Experiences
Oh it was horrible. At the lab on Sunday, wanting to get down to work, get some progress made on the echology project when Waffles died on me. Well, I shouldn’t say died. Waffles coughed, wheezed, sputtered; was to sick to go on. I spent an hour on the phone with the doctors and just referred me to a specialist. Didn’t like that idea, the idea of Waffles being sent away to get better. Could it get better?
Noah had a look. I really like that, felt comfortable because I knew he would be honest with me, tell me what was going wrong and what my option were. I still took it in to FutureShop yesterday to get whatever was wrong fixed. Noah had been right, it was the RAM on the motherboard.
Now I’m without Waffles for a week, maybe even two. I’m trying not to freak out that this is happening and that I need that laptop for echology development. I have what data I could get extracted from the harddrive. I’m crossing my fingers that I can still get the harddrive back untampered. We will see. I’m dreading that day I need to bring out the system restore disk.
This was a lesson. A big lesson. While at FutureShop yesterday, I bought a spindle of 50 blank cds. Backup backup backup. Once a month is not enough.
April 12, 2005 at 9:29 pm · Filed under Random Thoughts
this one is for Jacquie:
When I was little I refused to accept that girl-cheese sandwiches were actually grilled-cheese sandwiches.
How did mom make every single one so perfect. She was feeding 6 including her – maybe she had room to make the practice sandwich. We just never saw that one. All black and crispy on the outside with cheese still cool on the inside.
April 10, 2005 at 12:29 pm · Filed under I am feeling..., Reflection
It’s Sunday morning. I’m back in Vancouver, got back on Friday night. I’m emailing madly. Scheduling madly. Filling up my calendar from now till next vacation (when is that?). Organization is slowly coming back. Hoping that after yoga today I will feel stretched and re-energized oh I’m so looking forward to it.
I’m amused by the amount of responses I’m getting as I fire emails off. Usually the inbox stays quite empty over the weekend. People are out doing other things, not working. Not last night. Not this morning. Half the people I am contacted are sitting somewhere just like me. Reading, processing, responding to their emails. It is comforting. But is this what we do on a Sunday morning? Quite different from my childhood. Much more empty and disjointed.
April 5, 2005 at 4:07 pm · Filed under I am feeling..., Travels, Work
The workshop was yesterday and it was really fun. By the end of the day I was pooped from talking too much. We put together some really interesting things which I will try to link to once they are online.
Today is the first day of CHI sessions. I’ve been to a few already. There were a couple that I really enjoyed and a few sleepers. That’s been my problem today. I htink it’s from not taking classes since last winter – I’m not used to sitting and letting people talk for an hour and a half. I get sooooo drowsy! I went for a 30 minute walk after and even then I couldn’t keep my eyes open on the way back.
Three more presentations today and I’m quite excited about them. After that I will go to the hotel, stretch out my feet, rest for 30 minutes, then head off to the reception.
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