Published on Monday, 28th August, 2006 .
Didn’t notice, but a few days ago my No Smoking Counter (Thanks to JW for writing the PHP) passed the 2 YEARS mark.
OK, I guess this is the time to confess to having about 10 cigars at Birthday parties, New Year and Christmas celebrations, but 10 Cigars compared to 6200+ cigarettes can’t be as bad.
There have been times I have wanted a cigarette and the urge to have once is still there, it more than likely always will be. Hopefully (except for occasional cigars) I won’t go back to smoking.
My tips for giving up:-
- YOU must be ready to give up! You will know when!
- Give up Cold Turkey (No Patches, or Cigarette replacements)
- Keep Busy (early on when I wanted a Cigarette, I made a coffee)
- Try not to convert others to Non-Smoking (I still try without thinking - Am I Bad)
- Don’t Change your habits (If you for example go to pubs when smoking, don’t give that up. If you have to stop going places are you ready???)
Published on Saturday, 26th August, 2006 .
So, I have finally upgrade my old laptop (can’t afford to upgrade the machine) to Windows XP from Windows ME. For those interested, it’s a Sony Vaio QR-10 sporting a Celeron 650 MHz, 64 (now 192) MB RAM, 10 GB hard drive, 13.3 in. TFT Active Matrix, CD-ROM, Microsoft Windows ME, 6.62 lb.
And what a Headache.
First, backed everything up on my 80Gb drive. Then (eventually after 2 hour seach as was looking for green coloured, but was silver) I setup my laptop back to machine default installation and removed the partitions back to a single drive.
Once back to Base ME installation, I then installed XP. I started about 7pm with backups and finished Base XP install by 3am. As I write this, have most main programs I need installed, with some minor apps still to go. Most of the day was taken up getting my Hauppauge (pronounced Hop-Pog) WinTV USB card going.
I fear I still many more hours to go. But at moment enjoying a chat with some Ham Friends on eQSO.
Published on Monday, 21st August, 2006 .
My latest annoyance is people not giving me long enough to answer the house phone.
Over weekend the landline phone (which is in my sisters room) rang 4 times with people only giving about 4/5 rings. This is not long enough. It’s not a loud phone and by the time I realise the phone is ringing, and got to the phone, the person has rung off.
Please let it ring Longer. I will talk to you!
Another thing is (and this is a rare moment for me to talk about work, cherish it) is people asking “Are you Point 1 (or whatever)”? NO, I have an Enquiries sign on my desk. Please learn to Read. End moan for Today!
Published on Thursday, 10th August, 2006 .
OK, yesterday at work I had the worst day for a long while. Half way through this day from Hell, I asked my colleague to check his diary. As I suspected a Full Moon, which was also confirmed by a Moon Phase Google home page plugin.
Today has been better ending in a great meal at the Indian restaurant.
But, over the last week or so, something has been pissing me right off here on the Internet. Pages with Large Images or Photos forced to a Smaller size. The two sites I remember are Ventenna and to a lesser extent RadiosGalore.
I am not expert on Web Design, but look, make a small thumbnail and link to large image. Even I can tell you how to do this, it’s not like brain surgery. Also in the long run if you are a popular site, you should save yourself some bandwidth. Your visitors, your host and yourself (because of hosting bill), will all be happy. End Moan.
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