Moomin Valley

I finally upgrade Moomin Valley to a new Blogger template but in the process lost my previous blog list. A lot of the links were dead anyway...

that Google is defying the trend to smaller screens .

We continue looking at houses ... As we look more we gradually understand better what we are looking for. Houses vary a lot in location, age...

After accidentally overwriting a file with an older version that was inside a newer version of a folder that I was backing up I wondered why...

We spent a lot last month in particular on flight tickets to Europe and a new laptop computer. At least half of those expenditures are busi...

Enough Wealth suggested on my last post that really I could have gotten a Dell laptop and saved money over buying a Mac. So, at least part ...

Yesterday, I bought a new MacBook Pro. The old one was less than three years old but it was again malfunctioning, has an almost useless bat...

Because the equation feature in Word 2004 wasn't entirely compatible with with Macintosh OS 10.5 (some notation appeared incorrectly tho...

I got the 16GB version of the Sandisk Cruzer USB Flash Drive in JB Hi Fi for $A75. The local Apple reseller only had one rather ugly small...

I just got an e-mail about a new social media things called Academia.edu . The organizers state: "Academia.edu was founded by Richard P...

Some progress on the job front. A computer is being ordered for me from the project funds and a meeting being set up with the funders to d...

I went along to my local TransACT office to ask about changing our broadband/phone plan into one that includes cable TV. Snork Maiden's...

As part of my new career direction I want to set up a professional website which is not linked to this blog. Snork Maiden found a cheap and ...

Just before I was going to reluctantly buy a new laptop - as putting a non-warranteed logic board that would cost about what my computer is...

This morning I couldn't access the internet at all. After playing with all kinds of hardware and software settings for maybe an hour I p...

We got into our apartment today, spent a huge amount of money on appliances, furniture, etc. and got the phone and internet running. The las...

The finance person in my former department told me yesterday they want my laptop back (not sure what they plan on doing with a Mac laptop in...