Odd Thoughts from a High Desk

Still cold

2012-02-11T10:26:00.001Z

Why is it still so cold, I have had enough of it I want spring and I want it now.

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Nokia N8

2012-02-10T06:31:00.001Z

This is my current phone and just for the record I am on O2. Earlier this week Nokia release a nice, or so I am told up date to the N8. I don't know what it's like as O2 for some unknown reason have not let us have it yet, even though the rest of the world have it, and from what I have read it appears to be working well.

Why are O2 so slow?

Do they care about there customers?

They have not even thought to let us customers know when they are going to let us have the update.

As you start to read the blogs and comments on the net about this, I have realised that there are some very angry people out there and that O2 have not done themselves any favours.

It also turns out that they are already selling N8's with the update already installed, so on the face of it it would appear being an existing customer is being a second class citizen.

I suppose that in the fullness of time we will find out why the delay and also get to enjoy the update.

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BlogPress

2012-02-10T06:24:00.001Z

Finally BlogPress have released an update, or is it rather apple have allowed the update out?

Not sure which one it is, the main thing is that the fault what ever it was has been sorted and I now for a while until the next update have a working blogging programme yeah!

It's just nice to be able to blog when and where I want to.

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Snow

2012-02-10T06:16:00.001Z

Yet again we have snow, did I tell you I hate snow.

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Cold

2012-02-08T17:46:00.001Z

Wow is it cold or what today

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Arrghhh

2012-02-08T17:45:00.001Z

Why do things that were working get broken?

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Blogpress

2012-02-07T21:43:00.000Z

Blogpress updates itself to a new and improved version, so that's why I cant upload blogs to my blog, if that makes any sense.

Bad News

2012-01-28T18:37:00.000Z

So I have had some bad news today, news that from one way of looking at it should have been 20 or even as little as 4 years ago.

But for the fact that the UK health service does have some very clever and caring people my Mother would have died 4 years ago.

Now in the grand scheme of things, e.g who ever writes this script called life we get the news that she now has a fast growing tumor in her airway that is inoperable.

The even evil bit is she gets this news 10 years to the day we buried my father, so someone somewhere does have a very sick sense of humor.

Hearing the news form my sister who was wither her I don't know how to feel about it, as in one sense it was always going to happen some time, just I don't want to hear it now.

My Mother on being told this news is reported to have remarked "What a shiter"! which I suppose does rather sum it all up.

As the lady has always lived her life how she wants to, it comes as now surprise that she has already started to put her life affairs in order and has already stated that she wants an eco burial, and is going to look at where she wishes to be buried...

I have told her since hearing the news that I love her and she replied that she loved me and that she would talk to me until the end, for reasons that I will not put in here, I shall only talk to her.

I can't face seeing her face to face as she declines, as I want to remember her as she was fit and fighting, she has said that she understands this, for which I am happy for her support.

So how long has my Mother got?

She says anywhere between 2 weeks and 2 Months but thinks from what the consultant said 8 weeks is probably very optimistic.

So I shall talk to my Mother until its time and tell her that I love her.

Moon

2012-01-27T07:45:00.001Z

Last night it was a very clear night and so I was surprised just how great the moon looked its at what I think is one of the more interesting phases, in that it's a crescent or wane Moon.

What I like about this phase is that the unlit side of the Moon sort of glows in Earthshine and you can see it but not see it.

Not very far from the Moon in the sky was a really bright star, which when I used an app on the iPad showed me I was looking at a very bright Venus, the app also pointed out where Uranus is but as where I live is rather well light up at night I have no chance of seeing it and also I reckon you need a telescope to see it.

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Cold

2012-01-27T07:39:00.001Z

It has turned just a bit colder this morning but lucky for me no ice to scrape off the car windows.

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Cars

2012-01-26T13:28:00.001Z

So I found out that the car that I have just brought has things missing from it that I thought would have come as standard.

It does not have front fog lights, and it does not have a range function which I find a bit of a surprise as it has a function to tell you when to change up or down gear, just like a formula one but without the speed!

So it would appear that I have brought the wrong car and I will now be stuck with it for two or more years. I suppose that it is my fault for not checking the specs.

But apart form the two things that I said above its actually a nice car to drive and is okay.

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New car

2012-01-26T09:17:00.003Z

So do I have a car with lights that I can't use or do I have a car with something wrong with it?

I shall find out soon.

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Blogs

2012-01-26T09:17:00.001Z

Just noticed that I am not doing that many blog entries at this moment in time, I think that it might have some thing to do with the fact that I have found a couple of games on Facebook or all places that I like to play at this time.

This will of course change as I tend to get board with the games after a while but at the moment I am enjoying myself.

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New car

2012-01-22T09:47:00.001Z

So I have my new car and it's interesting how things in the old car that you took for granted and different in the new car and that even though my old car was three years old how much has changed and also how much has not.

As I said before I have downsized on the car and the new car has stuff that it did not have before like cruise control and stuff like that, but one thing that it does not have is the range the car can do with the amount of fuel it has inboard.

It does have Bluetooth for the phone, a jack point for your mp3 player it even has a feature that tells you when to change up or down a gear, which is just like a formula one racing car, but a warning on just how far you can go before you run out of fuel no, nothing.

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New car

2012-01-18T20:40:00.001Z

So I got my new car yesterday, why is there so much paperwork to sign?

As I think I said before this time I have downsized the car, so one of the things that I have noticed is that the new car feels lighter which of course it is, as it's smaller.

The one thing that I did not check and thinking about it I should have is that my old car had a feature which told you how much range the car had with the fuel in the tank, it would appear that the new car does not have this, but it does have cruise control.

If I ever buy another new car a note to my self is to check what information the car can give me.

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Website

2012-01-17T21:35:00.003Z

I have managed to finally get some website software that I can actually use, which is good Asti means I have finally been able to start to edit and correct the faults that have stopped the Dirk Maggs Productions website from working correctly.

I am not sure what has caused the faults on the site as its an exact copy of the site that was working before I changed web hosts.

And I have checked more than once that I uploaded all the files that make up the site more than once but I still seemed to have the same sort of problem of links not working and of images missing, yet when checking they are there but for some unknown reason that just don't load.

Any way the good news is that with the new software I have managed to sort some of the problems out, the site works better than it did and more of the links now appear to work, which is always good.

What's sad is that when doing the site is just how little new work Dirk has done over the last few years, it would appear that the number of radio plays that the BBC use has dropped big time, which is sad.

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Bots

2012-01-17T21:35:00.001Z

As I said in another blog post I have been updating the Dirk Maggs Productions website, after I got some new website editing software that I can actually use, which out my head exploding.

One thing that I noticed while looking at the website logs was just how quick the various web bots notice a change in my website and that scan right through it.

The Google bot appeared to hit my website within a few minutes of me uploading changed and updated pages to my web host.

But the thing that opened my eyes was the fact that there are lots of other less well known bots out there that are if any thing quicker than the Google bot.

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Still cold

2012-01-14T22:55:00.001Z

It's still rather cold and it looks like its going to be that way all the weekend.

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Cold

2012-01-14T08:22:00.001Z

Wow has it got cold, which as this time of year is I suppose what it should be.

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Updates

2012-01-11T06:42:00.001Z

It's funny in that last year when ios5 came out it took some eight or more weeks for a corrected version of BlogPress to come out.

Now in the space of less than that time it's had two more updates, not that I am complaining as I now have a working programme which lets me blog as and when I want to.

I just hope that the next time that iOS gets updated and BlogPress for some reason does not work that they update quicker.

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Cheque books

2012-01-10T18:26:00.001Z

When was the last time you used a cheque book or even wrote out a cheque? For me it's years and years. So finding a cheque book in my household has been fun. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Darkness

2012-01-09T17:32:00.003Z

How are you supposed to like the dark? Ik now that as I get older the one thing that I want more of is daylight, why that should be I just don't know but that's what I am finding as I get older. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Radio

2012-01-09T17:32:00.001Z

Just how much radio do you listen to? An hour a day? Or more Do you just listen to radio in the car? To and from work I wounded if where you listen to the radio makes a difference as what you think of radio and also the type of radio that you listen to? - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

New car

2012-01-08T22:17:00.001Z

So I have put down a deposit for a new car at 0% interest will let you know when I get it. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Abbots ale

2012-01-04T21:21:00.001Z

Just a note to me that for some reason Abbots ale with cheese and crackers Appears to work well. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad