Thursday, February 22, 2007
Productive day, for odd values of productive
The repairman came. The dryer shuts off on its own now! Yay!
I don't think I mentioned it before, but last week I messed up my laser mouse. The wheel was acting a little hinky so I tried to clean it and after that it would only go two spins, then quit. So I installed a new one, which is cool with red shiny jewels all over. But it doesn't like the old mouse's software or something, because while the wheel works fine, the left click button does not. I either get no result from clicking, or up to a dozen as I try to double click at just the right speed. This is annoying.
I am also failing as a bird nurturer. Wouldn't you know, we turned out to have some of that potentially contaminated 2111 peanut butter, which we had already eaten half the jar of. I decided not to push our luck, but rather than waste it totally, we scraped it onto an old plate and set it out on the roof of the dogs' turn out pen for the birds. The birds must watch the news, because they aren't touching it, even after I bought bird seed to scatter all over it. What's up with that?
The other project I have been busy with is converting from the Thunderbird mail program back to Eudora, which we have used since we first got the internet a decade ago. Thunderbird has a few quirks that annoy me, even though I either found workarounds or got used to it. The only reason I quit Eudora was that I had an old version that was not playing nice with the new bells and whistles of modern net needs, and I didn't want to pay $50 to get up to speed.
However, Qualcomm is about to give Eudora over to Mozilla for open sourcing. That would be free, but it seems that they will just CALL it Eudora but make it pretty much Thunderbird flavor. Happily, they have not done this yet, and are discounting the most recent version of Eudora down to $19.99. Can't beat that with a stick. So I'm shifting unanswered mail and saving old folders of Stuff.
Another advantage of Eudora over T-bird, for me, is that I can successfully transplant mailboxes on my flash drive from the big computer to the laptop. I have been spending way too much time sitting up in front of the desktop in the past few weeks, and I've been getting fluid build-up in my legs and feet which doesn't go away overnight like it used to. So I need to get back to doing a good chunk of my work from the bedroom on the laptop. (The whole reason I bought it in the first place!) Being able to shift the email I'm behind on will help that a lot! (Also it is much quieter in the bedroom, but don't tell Mike I said so!)
I don't think I mentioned it before, but last week I messed up my laser mouse. The wheel was acting a little hinky so I tried to clean it and after that it would only go two spins, then quit. So I installed a new one, which is cool with red shiny jewels all over. But it doesn't like the old mouse's software or something, because while the wheel works fine, the left click button does not. I either get no result from clicking, or up to a dozen as I try to double click at just the right speed. This is annoying.
I am also failing as a bird nurturer. Wouldn't you know, we turned out to have some of that potentially contaminated 2111 peanut butter, which we had already eaten half the jar of. I decided not to push our luck, but rather than waste it totally, we scraped it onto an old plate and set it out on the roof of the dogs' turn out pen for the birds. The birds must watch the news, because they aren't touching it, even after I bought bird seed to scatter all over it. What's up with that?
The other project I have been busy with is converting from the Thunderbird mail program back to Eudora, which we have used since we first got the internet a decade ago. Thunderbird has a few quirks that annoy me, even though I either found workarounds or got used to it. The only reason I quit Eudora was that I had an old version that was not playing nice with the new bells and whistles of modern net needs, and I didn't want to pay $50 to get up to speed.
However, Qualcomm is about to give Eudora over to Mozilla for open sourcing. That would be free, but it seems that they will just CALL it Eudora but make it pretty much Thunderbird flavor. Happily, they have not done this yet, and are discounting the most recent version of Eudora down to $19.99. Can't beat that with a stick. So I'm shifting unanswered mail and saving old folders of Stuff.
Another advantage of Eudora over T-bird, for me, is that I can successfully transplant mailboxes on my flash drive from the big computer to the laptop. I have been spending way too much time sitting up in front of the desktop in the past few weeks, and I've been getting fluid build-up in my legs and feet which doesn't go away overnight like it used to. So I need to get back to doing a good chunk of my work from the bedroom on the laptop. (The whole reason I bought it in the first place!) Being able to shift the email I'm behind on will help that a lot! (Also it is much quieter in the bedroom, but don't tell Mike I said so!)
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