In case you didn’t know, you can donate to the Red Cross via amazon and its very easy if you already have an amazon account. Also for british tax payers by ticking the box you immediately boost your donation by 28% via tax relief. So far amazon have had 6081 donations totally just under $300,000 and its increased by 6 donations whilst i’ve written this.
Not having that much internet access and the time to blog, I’ve quickly gone through my feeds and pulled a couple of things out of them
- A WUS Wiki which sounds like a bad day for Jonathan Ross, but is actually a wiki for the new Windows Update Services.
- Links to video’s of the Tsunami. This hit whilst we were on holiday and I never got to see any moving pictures of the wave itself – saw plenty of horrific news photos of the devastation afterwards though.
- I removed Norton AntiVirus off the home computer as the subscription had run out and I’m not impressed with the number of infections that have gotten past it this year. Instead I’ve tried the free home edition of Avast’s Antivir software which looks ok. It certainly picked up on eicar when I downloaded it – will be interesting to see how it copes with email borne virus’s
Happy New Year to you Brits who are now 1 hour and 7 mins into 2005. I’ve got another 3 hours and 52 minutes to go for that priveledge. Hopefully I’ll still be awake by then. This will be the first year I’ve seen the apple fall in New York “live” on TV, so that will be interesting. Certainly it will be different to the bong of Big Ben I normally hear (or the fireworks that wake me up if I’ve gone to bed early)
I may publish a reflective post when we get back to the UK.
The snow is melting fast in Dublin now so I had to get this photo quick before the rest of it melted. It had looked a lot nicer during the week (and wasn’t as overcast/cloudy/foggy as it is today) with more snow on it but we never had the camera or time to take a photo.
Finally got round to listening to kevin’s latest podcast – some of the links including the download cd’s are worth checking out.
I’m sitting outside panera in the mall whilst Kristen goes into one of them lady shops :-; Kaufmann’s were having a nice sale so I’ve got some levi’s for $27 – well cheap compared to uk prices. Also got some cargo trousers and shoes so I don’t feel like “little orphan annie”
Delayed as I’ve not been able to get to the computer for an extended period of time – below is a quick run through of the journey to america.
As you have probably noticed, the pictures on google have been changing each day and are telling a story. One reader wrote in to complain about the photos (in a funny sort of way) and google responded to the letter
free wi-fi Ohio hotspots wireless internet access list may be useful in the next week or two 😉
I didn’t know panera bread did free wifi and thats just one of the places i’ve spent time sipping coffee (although its not my favourite blend of coffee)
One of the laptops was prompting for ZF561402.CAB whenever one of the office apps was opened. The only thing that had changed was some sort of installation of frontpage2000 (for some unknown reason).
We were getting prompted for the office2003 cd, but when you put the disk in the drive it would still ask for the cd. Eventually solved it by putting a different copy of office2003 in the drive. Not sure what the difference is, but I know that the original cd used is the volume licence copy, yet I don’t think the cd required was the volume licence key one.