28 November 2007

I love Paris in the fall - Packing to go.

It's funny: when I pack to go on holiday, I have a methodology for working out what I need to take that starts with how many nights I'll be staying (in this case, three), then how much walking I'll be doing (lots) and how cold it will be (very). Normally, I would then pack my three warmest items of clothing, my most comfortable shoes and my warmest coat.

But this was Paris and you don't go to Paris in just anything.

I packed two pairs of my best jeans, then tops that would look nice on their own, but could be layered with other items and still look good. On the footwear front, I conceded that my walking shoes would have to be taken because there is no other way I can walk around any city for three days in anything less, no matter how grungy they look. And although it is the warmest coat I own, there was no way I was going to Paris in my flourescent yellow jacket with reflective stripes on it, so my full-length winter coat with fake fur collar was taken.

OK, there are limits to how good I'm going to look given the base that I have to start with, but the yellow jacket would have had people asking me directions and that wasn't an option.

23 November 2007

Uploading photos - Vista, Grrr!

I've got some photos of work to put up and now I've found another snag that is preventing me from doing so: Windows Vista!

I can't find my original install disks for my Nikon camera (but it was bought when my computer was XP and Vista was just a beta product in Microsoft's eye), so I went to Nikon's website to download the appropriate stuff. Can't find anything there quickly. Knowing that I'm running out of time, I figured I'd just put the card into the card slot on my printer. Guess what? Vista doesn't recognise the card reader on my printer.

So, the only way I can currently read photos from my card is to put it into the PCMCIA converter I sensibly bought when I got the camera, and insert that into the PCMCIA slot on my laptop. Slight snag there: the laptop only has a 20Gb hard drive on it and it is too full to take all the photos on my card, so I have to send it to a shared folder on my desktop.

Anyway, the long and the short of it is: I won't have any pictures up just yet, but I made a really cool thing with shrink plastic the other day that I want to post, so as soon as I can, I'll have photos up there.

22 November 2007

Blog Tagging

Oh no, Jen's tagged me. This is a problem because I'm not sure that I know 7 people who blog. I'll start with one and see if I can add others.

Here are the rules:

1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself (on your blog, we all want to know them).
3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know that they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog

And here are my 7 random facts:
  1. I trained as a professional dancer - but you wouldn't know it looking at me now.
  2. I am a computer geek who has the ability to talk to people - a rare thing in this day and age.
  3. I've never had a career. I've fallen from one job to the next which has resulted in where I am today.
  4. I constantly struggle with my artwork. I am often disappointed that what appears from my hands does not resemble what was in my head.
  5. I appear to be very outgoing. However, I have a very negative image of myself.
  6. I can block out things around me and focus fully on one task regardless of the mayhem ensuing around me, but turn on the TV and I can't do anything else.
  7. My dream is to have a successful business running from my own back garden shed, with my (as yet, unborn) children with me.

I'm tagging the one person I can think of now and hope she doesn't mind. Then as I find more people, I'll tag them too.

Sally Lynn
Becky