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Monthly Archives: August 2005

Hurricane Survivors Need Your Help

Hurricane Katrina is the most destructive storm to hit the U.S. mainland in years. It has displaced millions of families across the Gulf coast and wrought billions of dollars of damage. Trapped survivors in flooded and devastated areas are still being rescued from harm’s way. Recovery will take months.

Donate at Mercy Corps or the Catholic Charities, but be aware of Charity Scams You want the money to go to those who need it.

Via Michelle Malkin

Where is Amazon.com? And how about Yahoo!? Microsoft? Dell? Cisco? Countless readers and a few bloggers have wondered why these tech companies, which stepped up the plate to help raise millions of dollars for tsunami victims last year, have not yet set up fund-raising efforts.

Come on guys, get your finger out and step up to the plate.

Yea right ok

I’ve been setting up the pc’s at school for the last week and for the most part it’s been pretty straight forward. Until I hit 3rd grade that is, then 2nd, then 1st – they have new boe pc’s. I sign in as admin, but no admin privilege, which means I can’t assign the pc’s their own individual IP, or change the name of the pc’s so they’re easily recognizable on the network, or stick them on the correct workgroup so they can access the programs on the server and others pc’s.

6 phone calls later including tech support for the boe, and numerous calls made to a bunch of people listed on the “if you have a problem please call” list and I’m still no closer than I was 5 phone calls later. I keep getting passed onto the next department who are even more clueless than the last.

No one knows who’s responsible for giving me the password to access the administrator account so I can’t change anything.

Consequently I have half the pc’s assigned their own IP address, and the other half using DHCP. I wonder which grade will get the first ‘I’m sorry you can’t access the network at this time, there is an IP conflict with another machine blah blah blah” message.

Then I go outside to kick a tree and try and vent my frustration when the landscape gardener strikes up a conversation ignoring my ‘go away’ face and the steam coming out of my head and asks “so, you the secretary?”

Do I look like a secretary? Do I have secretary written on my forehead? I have 3 broken nails, my hair is a mess, I have a power cord slung over my shoulder, I’m tossing a technical manual up in the air for sport, I’m leaning on a cart containing pc parts and a couple of hubs and my tool box is wide open – WHAT PART OF ME SCREAMS SECRETARY?

Another pc and theme

I’ve finally got my Duron 1.5 (or is it 1.3Gig) up and running. Currently running a clean install of Win98 Se as I don’t have Winxp, and not sure if I want to invest in a copy since the new OS Vista is supposedly just around the corner. I toyed with the idea of installing linux, but do I really want to sit there and learn a new OS from scratch – ah no! No time, no patients, and no desire.

It’s a zippy little thing, with 256M ram which I’ll upgrade next month sometime. Needs another hdd since it’s only a 20Gig and I’ll probably invest in a decent video card to replace the onboard monstrosity which doesn’t have s-video out, and no way to connect to my tv.

Currently waiting for my KVM switch to arrive, as the one I have only allows 2 pc’s to be connected. Don’t know why I bought it in the first place really, I always ended up having to disconnect one pc when a customer brought in one to be fixed. This time bought a 4 port, so there’ll always be port spare providing of course I don’t get another pc. Currently I have 3 pc’s and 2 laptops and can’t bear to part with any.

Another theme is available on the right “Relaxation_3column”. I have to adjust the Nav bar at the top and change some of the colours, but I pretty much like the way it looks now.

The photos you’ll see at the top are mine, and I’ll change them from time to time. I’ll probably implement a graphic changer in order to display all of them at different times.

Family Hols

VacationI found evidence which suggests I was a nose picker as a child. Yep, that’s me with my finger firmly wedged up my nose, oblivious to the fact the photo will live on way after my death for the whole world to see.

That’s my dad, with my brother precariously balanced on his hand. My brother and I were blessed with perfect balancing skills as I remember frequently standing on his shoulders, hands, bottom of his feet while he was lying down – I”m sure we’re related to a famous circus family, but my dad’s always denied this. We could have started our own circus troupe.

I digress. This was taken on one of my family’s yearly vacation jaunts to somewhere in Southern England, where we usually stayed in a caravan (trailer to you from the USA). I enjoyed our family hols, although the long car ride to get there usually ended with my parents arguing since my dad always took a wrong turn and we ended up going miles out of our way.

It was an unwritten rule, my dad drove, my mom navigated and hence always got blamed when we went awry. We’d drive for miles with my mom saying every 2 minutes “I’m sure we took a wrong turn back there”, “I think we should pull over and ask someone”, “Dave we’re going the wrong way”, “Dave, you should have taken the 3 turning off the roundabout, not the 2nd”, etc etc etc. Not until we were somewhere in the boondocks, and us kids were whining in the back did he eventually pull over to consult the map.

I don’t remember ever arriving at our destination on time, and I never quite understood the point of leaving early to beat the traffic, when every other family in the UK had the same idea. Consequently, we all met up at the same time on the M1.

Not a pot to *** in

Never assume hubby has money in his pocket. Even when he knows we’re going to the zoo, knows we going to visit the petting zoo where one will need $1 to buy rye-crisp in oder to feed the horses, goats and sheep.

Thankfully we have a zoo membership, because between the two of us, we couldn’t rustle up a $1 in change to buy animal nosh.

C was not amused.

Bah, Blah, and Pfft!

The weather is mirroring my mood today, or maybe it’s the other way around. Whatever!
Everybody and everything is annoying me and it’s not even 10 A.M. The undetectable pool hole is really pissing me off. Yea I know I should move on from that but – well it’s really pissing me off.

The feisty 2 yr old has been busting my chops all morning, if I have to pick up those pillows one more time from the floor, they’re going out in the garbage. I have a perfectly good comfy couch, why does he insist on putting the damn pillows on the floor and lounging there?
I’ve tried having him pick them up every time he puts them on the floor – the butt slap (which is totally worthless since he wears a diaper) – the hand slap – the top of the leg slap – the time outs – NOTHING is working people. He’s a brazen little bugger. Takes his punishment and the minute it’s over goes right back to what he was doing before most of the time. What the hell am I doing wrong?

M is staying out of my way this morning – I think he’s learned to read the ‘don’t even think about asking me to get off the pc‘ look

I think I’ll pay bestbuy a visit, a new pc part always cheers me up :)