Thursday 28 October 2010

So Tired

It's been a stressful couple of weeks and I'm feeling so very tired.

Work has been busy and Hamish has been away in Salisbury helping to clear out his fathers house. This was the house we were going to buy a couple of years ago but, well, that never happened. Anyway it's gone now so at least we can forget about it and move on.

Matt came down for the weekend last week and we had a good time watching crap films and drinking too much.

I'm sitting on the sofa in the study at the moment listening to Beethoven on the record player - very civilised.

I haven't done any work on the tech website and I really want to get a move on with it but I'm just so tired. There's also a video that I've been meaning to edit for ages and a box full of old photos that won't scan themselves.

I need to get back into the swing again.

It's Hamish's birthday this weekend and Roxana and Ian are staying so I won't be able to get any of the things done this weekend so I will need to try and get started next week.


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Thursday 21 October 2010

Ironwork Climbing

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Saturday 16 October 2010

Feeling Tired

It's been a bit of a full on week this week and I am feeling so tired this morning.

Hamish got back from Berlin OK and tomorrow we are taking Roxana back to Salisbury and then it's back to work again on Monday.

We are going for a pint tonight then back home for a Chile and then we are going to watch "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs".

As I've been so busy this week I haven't had a chance to work on my website so I will pick up with that again next week.

Wednesday 13 October 2010

Back Home Again

Made it back home with Roxana and have spent the afternoon doing housework and making bread, I'm such a domestic goddess.

Having only had 4 hours sleep last night has taken it's toll and I'm absolutely shattered now.

Now that everything is sorted out my week off is back on track and I'm going to catch up with a few things that I want to do such as digitising a few records, playing on the playstation and reading.

Hamish is back from Berlin tomorrow night so Roxana and I will go and pick him up from Gatwick.


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Week Not Going To Plan

Well the best laid plans of mice and men as they say. There's been a bit of a family crisis (nothing that can't be fixed) and so I am currently in Salisbury and will be bringing my sister-in-law back home with me for a few days R and R.

Hamish is still in Berlin and is having a good time judging by his blog posts. He has Netty with him and he is using it to keep his blog updated and to also upload videos to YouTube where he can edit them on their servers before making them live. This is a great service which means that you don't need a powerful computer to be able to polish up any video you shoot and want to publish.

When I get back home I want to spend a little time updating the Home Tech For All website as I have a head full of ideas and articles that I want to publish. I am mindful that if I don't get some content online soon, people who stumble across the site won't come back as they will think that it is just one of the many thousands of dead sites on the web.

I'm writing this at 01.48 in the morning as, although I am tired, I don't seem to be able to get to sleep. I hate nights like this.

Surfing around the iTunes store on the iPad I have come across itunes U which is a repository of hundreds of free videos from university lectures. I have just downloaded the first of a collection of an introduction to biology from MIT which is fascinating. Once again this proves that the web isn't all porn and celebrity gossip, if you look around there is so much you can learn.


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Monday 11 October 2010

Bugger That's Another Week Without A Post

Actually, I have an excuse this time as I have even working on my other project.

You may recall a while back I said that I was doing something else on the web? Well, that something is a technology website that I have been thinking about creating for a while now.  It is still in the very early stages but I am working in the background creating the content for it. I won't go into too much detail here but head over to www.hometechforall.com and have a look for yourself.

I am on annual leave this week and, as Hamish has taken himself off to Berlin for a few days, I have the place to myself so I am catching up on a bit of relaxation.

I feel a bit of a hypocrite as I type this as, despite what I have said in the past, I am actually typing this on an iPad. I'm quite surprised actually as it is not at all like I had envisaged it - an overgrown iPod Touch. The apps have been rewritten from the ground up and have a much more 'grown up' feel about them. It's still not a 'proper' computer but it is much closer that I thought it would be. Also, in landscape mode, the onscreen keyboard is quite remarkable and I seem to be able to type as quickly as I can on a real keyboard. People have complained that there is no tactile feedback when typing. This is true but it doesn't seem to affect me and your fingers do make a pleasing thud as they hit the screen.

I'll let you know how I get on with it over the next few weeks.

Netty isn't consigned to the bin however as I will still be using her to take my work notes.

Monday 4 October 2010

Another Week Has Gone By

Oh dear, I'm not doing very well at making sure I update more than once a week.

To be honest, I haven't been feeling too well over the past week.  I started out with a nasty cold but just got more and more exhausted as the week went on and, when I had finished work in the evenings, I was just too knackered to do anything.

I've been reading the book 'iCon - Steve Jobs' which is a well written autobiography of the Great Applemeister himself.  Blimey, if you thought he was arrogant now, it's nothing as to how he was in the 80's!

As I've been a bit out of it for the last few days, not much else has been happening.  My diet went out of the Window for a couple of weeks and I am starting to feel that I have put a bit of weight on so I am now back to the plan.  When I'm feeling low I find it very hard to stick to anything as I feel that it is just another thing to feel down about.  As I am now starting to feel better again, I can get back into the right mindset.

I bought an unlocked MIFI today as I am not using anywhere near the limit of my O2 Mobile Broadband with Netty so now I can also connect my iphone to it and not worry about hitting my data cap.  Also, if I ever do get an iPad (and yes I am starting to see the benefit of one) then I can go for the cheaper WIFI only version and use the MIFI with that too.

Very shit journey into work today as not only was there a tube strike but there were overrunning engineering works just outside East Croydon too so no trains and no tubes.  And it was raining.  I love Mondays.