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Post 1

Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista)

The day didn't quite go entirely to plan. smiley - doh

I thought it was going to be the first day I would have to myself in over two weeks. I dressed sloppily, had a messy lunch and set about working on the new laptop. I was copying some large files from my main Hackintosh onto a memory stick, and it was going to take over an hour so I switched the lights off, wrapped myself in a duvet like a cuccoon and had a nap. smiley - zzz

Except about forty minutes later the door buzzer went. smiley - yikessmiley - run

I had a bit of a struggle to disentangle myself and get to the door in the dark. It was my pal George. smiley - brave I enjoy his visits, I just wish he had picked a different day. My next chance to have a day to myself will now be... next Sunday. smiley - facepalm

George stayed for an hour or so, and showed me his spiffy new camera. Unfortunately he couldn't demo it because the battery ran out two minutes after I turned it on. smiley - doh I'll be going round to Bisset and Hazel's tomorrow night, assuming I feel up to it, for the first time since I started dialysis, so I'll probably get another chance to see it there. smiley - ok

The other reason he came round was to slip me a tenner to buy my old "Sonos" wi-fi radio. It never had the battery life that I needed, but it seems to be working fine for him. smiley - whistlesmiley - musicalnote

After he left I set about copying my "Vue 7" installation onto the Hackintosh running on the new laptop. All went reasonably well, except I can't "activate" it till I "deactivate" the copy on the other machine, and I can't for the life of me find that option anywhere. smiley - headhurtssmiley - wah

Currently, the laptop Hackintosh is getting a "free upgrade" to OSX Mavericks 9.4! smiley - wow It'll take a few hours, but if it works it'll be well worth it. smiley - pirate

In the meantime, I'm going to shut this machine down and watch some Netflix. smiley - cdouble The download is so slow it won't affect my bandwidth. smiley - laugh Otherwise, I haven't watched any TV today yet. smiley - yawn


Posting early, off to watch TV while waiting for a big download.

Post 2

woofti aka groovy gravy

I'm still using the Revo Blik I bought because I saw you had one and liked it, Peet. I use it a lot these days. I'm very pleased, because for a long time I never used it. I used to use it in Stirling, then when I moved here I listened to local FM radio for a couple of years. But these days I listen to KARN News Talk Radio. I enjoy it very much. It's got Rush on. I like Rush.

Yeah! The only thing I don't much like about the Blik is the user interface. But to satisfy me you'd have to have a monitor attached. smiley - silly

Take it easy mate.


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Post 3

Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista)

I'm using my Blik again. I bought a radio with a pretty interface to replace it, but it was a lemon and kept losing the wi-fi password about once a week, so in the end I gave it to George. smiley - headhurts

I hugely improved the Blik by cutting up some sticky rubber "feet" and gluing them to the buttons I use the most, meaning I can now reach behind my head and tell what button my finger's on by feel. smiley - ok (It's at the head of my bed... smiley - zzz)


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