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Sunday 21st January 2007
  
First things first - my normal USB keyboard seems to no longer work. Odd thing is, it was working fine up until the point where I took it (along with USB mouse, computer and USB 6-in-1 card reader) to Bebbgee Computers for repairs. Hmmmm. I was using a PS2 one as the guy at Bebbgee said the USB keyboard could have caused the problems in the first place. But just for the hell of it, I thought I would try . . . oh, never mind. It's boring. The point is: I'm now using some weird USB Apple Mac keyboard and I'm thinking, "Erm . . . where's all the keys gone?" I've found the 'Home' key (with a weird diagonal arrow pointing up and left, so that's 'Home' then, obviously) and the Apple key seems to work as the Windows key (logical enough, I guess), but where on earth is the Insert key? I use that one a lot. And the 'End' key, what happened to that one? Oh, and the 'Del' key. That's also useful. Hmmmm. Anyway.
Then there were major problems with the network cable connecting the main (i.e. this one) computer to the ADSL modem. This network cable was two network cables joined together by hand, by twisting the individual strands together and hoping for the best. Recently I thought, "Hmmm, better solder those things then," but couldn't find my soldering iron. Improvised with a lighter instead (actually three disposable lighters superglued together), and all seems kind of okay. Connection kept . . . disappearing though. Moved the computer downstairs, in order to use a shorter run of CAT5 cable, thereby ascertaining that my soldering hadn't gone too well. So, I run the cable along a much shorter route, thereby completely . . .  I've forgot the word . . . bypassing? . . . thereby completely making unnecessary the need for joining two cables together, as one of those cables was long enough. So, that was good. I guess. During the afternoon we were following a curious walk, whereby we started from around Happy Mount Park, walked along the promenade away from Morecambe (as you would), before joining some canal or other. I think the curiousness would have been migratory (?!) birds from/to Canada and/or Africa, but the tide (and maybe the season, I don't know) was against us. Lunch at a Jennings pub at Slyne. I had haddock, which was good until I started imagining the fish tasted of prawns which put me off a bit. I don't know why I didn't imagine the haddock tasted of Marmite or egg or onions or something. Maybe even polythene.
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First things first - my normal USB keyboard seems to no longer work. Odd thing is, it was working fine up until the point where I took it (along with USB mouse, computer and USB 6-in-1 card reader) to Bebbgee Computers for repairs. Hmmmm. I was using a PS2 one as the guy at Bebbgee said the USB keyboard could have caused the problems in the first place. But just for the hell of it, I thought I would try . . . oh, never mind. It's boring. The point is: I'm now using some weird USB Apple Mac keyboard and I'm thinking, "Erm . . . where's all the keys gone?" I've found the 'Home' key (with a weird diagonal arrow pointing up and left, so that's 'Home' then, obviously) and the Apple key seems to work as the Windows key (logical enough, I guess), but where on earth is the Insert key? I use that one a lot. And the 'End' key, what happened to that one? Oh, and the 'Del' key. That's also useful. Hmmmm. Anyway.
Then there were major problems with the network cable connecting the main (i.e. this one) computer to the ADSL modem. This network cable was two network cables joined together by hand, by twisting the individual strands together and hoping for the best. Recently I thought, "Hmmm, better solder those things then," but couldn't find my soldering iron. Improvised with a lighter instead (actually three disposable lighters superglued together), and all seems kind of okay. Connection kept . . . disappearing though. Moved the computer downstairs, in order to use a shorter run of CAT5 cable, thereby ascertaining that my soldering hadn't gone too well. So, I run the cable along a much shorter route, thereby completely . . . 
I've forgot the word . . . bypassing? . . . thereby completely making unnecessary the need for joining two cables together, as one of those cables was long enough. So, that was good. I guess. During the afternoon we were following a curious walk, whereby we started from around Happy Mount Park, walked along the promenade away from Morecambe (as you would), before joining some canal or other. I think the curiousness would have been migratory (?!) birds from/to Canada and/or Africa, but the tide (and maybe the season, I don't know) was against us. Lunch at a Jennings pub at Slyne. I had haddock, which was good until I started imagining the fish tasted of prawns which put me off a bit. I don't know why I didn't imagine the haddock tasted of Marmite or egg or onions or something. Maybe even polythene.