Today I brought a new car
Yes I know its a mad thing to do in this credit crunch time and all that sort of stuff, but you do need these days to have wheels and where I work there is no other way of getting there, especially if you discount walking.
So I can hear you ask what car did I buy?
I have brought a Vauxhall insignia exclusive 5 door 1.8 litre petrol car, why? well it's the nearest replacement to a Vauxhall Vectra which is what I have at this time.
I need a car of that size so that all my kite bugging stuff fits in it.
I am told I can have the car in March so that's good
31 January, 2009
How is it
How is it that sometimes when you want to work on one of your pet projects, like for instance in my case my Dirk Maggs chronology book things and life get in the way?
Do others people have this same problem of stuff getting in their way and the projects that they want to do?
At the rate at which I am not doing the Dirk Maggs book I will have to revise it before I have completed it as it will be out of date.
Do others people have this same problem of stuff getting in their way and the projects that they want to do?
At the rate at which I am not doing the Dirk Maggs book I will have to revise it before I have completed it as it will be out of date.
New book
I have a new book out on Lulu how cool is that?
I know it's great that I have some how or other finally got to publish a book that has sat on the old hard drive for far too long but the job is done and it's also a hardback.
This is what I have said on lulu about my book.
Having found the time and all that sort of stuff I have some how managed to release the latest book that I have written, which has been on my hard disk for a long time and some how or other got stuck there.
Although the new book's title is very close to my older books on chemical elements, it is a completly new book in its contents and its layout. In fact I think I might be pushed to name or even find another book that has a layout like my new book.
The reason that I can say this is that the book has been set up or layed out in such a way that we go from the elements first known to man all the way to thouse elements only found in the labs around the worl in the last few years.
I have never seen a book on chemical elemnts set out in such a way. Beacuse of this layout the book is in some seven or so parts reflecting the fact that the discovery of the various elements went to some extent hand in hand with new chemical and technology techniques, by this I mean that say without electricty some of the elemnts we know today would not have been found.
For me it has been a fun project and as I am not a chemist it was a great learning all this new stuff and I did enjoy myself.
This is what the back of the book says
Description:
This is an almost complete reference to all the currently known elements, set in an easy to read style and at an easy to understand level. Each element has information on when they were found, who found them, how they found them, what uses the elements are put to and what effects some of the elements can have on humans and their health. This book has been set up so that it starts from the earliest known elements to man, all the way to the elements only found a few years ago. The book is therefore in 7 parts reflecting the major eras that most of the chemical elements were found.
And finally this is the link to the book on Lulu
Hope this all works.
I know it's great that I have some how or other finally got to publish a book that has sat on the old hard drive for far too long but the job is done and it's also a hardback.
This is what I have said on lulu about my book.
Having found the time and all that sort of stuff I have some how managed to release the latest book that I have written, which has been on my hard disk for a long time and some how or other got stuck there.
Although the new book's title is very close to my older books on chemical elements, it is a completly new book in its contents and its layout. In fact I think I might be pushed to name or even find another book that has a layout like my new book.
The reason that I can say this is that the book has been set up or layed out in such a way that we go from the elements first known to man all the way to thouse elements only found in the labs around the worl in the last few years.
I have never seen a book on chemical elemnts set out in such a way. Beacuse of this layout the book is in some seven or so parts reflecting the fact that the discovery of the various elements went to some extent hand in hand with new chemical and technology techniques, by this I mean that say without electricty some of the elemnts we know today would not have been found.
For me it has been a fun project and as I am not a chemist it was a great learning all this new stuff and I did enjoy myself.
This is what the back of the book says
Description:
This is an almost complete reference to all the currently known elements, set in an easy to read style and at an easy to understand level. Each element has information on when they were found, who found them, how they found them, what uses the elements are put to and what effects some of the elements can have on humans and their health. This book has been set up so that it starts from the earliest known elements to man, all the way to the elements only found a few years ago. The book is therefore in 7 parts reflecting the major eras that most of the chemical elements were found.
And finally this is the link to the book on Lulu
Hope this all works.
25 January, 2009
Flying
Found this while getting the new computer all sorted out, in fact let Pisca loose and this is what it found on one of the USB hard disc's.
Taken some time ago at Butser Hill in Hampshire England.
Donna In Red
This is one of my fav pictures of Donna that I have, it was taken not that long a go and it's one that i also have as my wallpaper on my mobile.
I do remember that when I took it it was an unposed picture as she was going out to meet some of her work mates at a club or something, so a snatched picture but I like it any way
Backup & Why I use them
So start of new year, well a couple of days now into the new year and the USB HD that is about 18 months old has well, how do I put this died, it started with a noise like a machine gun when starting up, the noise would then go away and all was well, until the day that I when to look at the root directory where I keep such files as my current book, yes that one on Dirk Maggs, that has now been stuck in edit hell since June 2008.
When I looked at the root directory what was there was one item and not the several thousand that I have come to expect.
But for some strange reason when looking at the drive in Thumbs plus and Pisca all my pictures where there!, so I copied them to another HD.
It was at this stage that a sale at PC World caught my eye and so the end result is that I have a new cheap computer that some how or other seems to run Vista, with only 1G of memory!
I have since found out that if I put a fast 4G USB key in it will use it as memory and boost the speed of the machine, this I have done.
Reinstalling stuff from backups is fun, so I have all my data but a lot of programmes that do not run very well on vista, so most of my time has been spent looking for free ware versions of the old programs that I used to use.
I mean, some of the software I use goes back to 2002!
So the good news is I have all my projects data and I mostly have software that can do the job the old software that no longer runs on Vista.
But my Dirk Maggs book is still stuck in edit hell!
When I looked at the root directory what was there was one item and not the several thousand that I have come to expect.
But for some strange reason when looking at the drive in Thumbs plus and Pisca all my pictures where there!, so I copied them to another HD.
It was at this stage that a sale at PC World caught my eye and so the end result is that I have a new cheap computer that some how or other seems to run Vista, with only 1G of memory!
I have since found out that if I put a fast 4G USB key in it will use it as memory and boost the speed of the machine, this I have done.
Reinstalling stuff from backups is fun, so I have all my data but a lot of programmes that do not run very well on vista, so most of my time has been spent looking for free ware versions of the old programs that I used to use.
I mean, some of the software I use goes back to 2002!
So the good news is I have all my projects data and I mostly have software that can do the job the old software that no longer runs on Vista.
But my Dirk Maggs book is still stuck in edit hell!
22 January, 2009
10 January, 2009
A head that hurts
So I am already behind on my Blogs for this year, and as I predicted earlier its all due to the new job that I started on the 5th of Jan.
Its a new company doing the same work in a similar fashion but with a computer system that rules you, so you end up working how the system wants it and not how the user and operator need it to work, so I think there will be some weeks of stress for all.
Its a new company doing the same work in a similar fashion but with a computer system that rules you, so you end up working how the system wants it and not how the user and operator need it to work, so I think there will be some weeks of stress for all.
04 January, 2009
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I have never been to Kenilworth Castle but if you get good weather it looks like a nice place to visit and to slow the world down just a bit.
Cold
Now for some reason that I can not fathom it's been cold down here in the South of England for longer than I can remember for the last few years at this time of year why? don't know.
All I do know is at the rate it is going it will have been at 2 centigrade or less during the day for the last week or so, and at night we have had -8 centigrade! which for us is low in this part of England, as I write this the weather forecast is for it to stay cold until this Friday the 9 th of January.
As I have noticed of the last few years I do not fair very well in the cold any more, in fact it gets to be painful, why? not a clue, no one else in my close family have the problem just little old me, so it goes without saying that I do keep a very good watch on the weather at this time of year, and now with my ipod touch it has become all to easy to check the weather.
All I do know is at the rate it is going it will have been at 2 centigrade or less during the day for the last week or so, and at night we have had -8 centigrade! which for us is low in this part of England, as I write this the weather forecast is for it to stay cold until this Friday the 9 th of January.
As I have noticed of the last few years I do not fair very well in the cold any more, in fact it gets to be painful, why? not a clue, no one else in my close family have the problem just little old me, so it goes without saying that I do keep a very good watch on the weather at this time of year, and now with my ipod touch it has become all to easy to check the weather.
02 January, 2009
Test one
This is a test of a new program on the iPod touch to do blogging on it instead of on the computer.
So far the only. Thing that i do not like is the size of the keyboard on the iPod screen it's to small and does not rotate but then the program does not cost anything perhaps what I have to do is find a better program
So far the only. Thing that i do not like is the size of the keyboard on the iPod screen it's to small and does not rotate but then the program does not cost anything perhaps what I have to do is find a better program
2008 a 100 or not
Not sure what is going on with Blogger as it now reports that for 2008 I did 100 Blogs? how did I do that when I last looked I had only done some 90 or so and with only a couple of days left I thought that there was no way that I would get to the 100. But it now appears that I have just done that.
So if the Blog count is correct I now have to chose a new target, which is 150 Blogs, looking back over the years I see that 150 is not that high a target so that's what I shall go for.
Other news that did not make my earlier Blog today was that I have updated the Dirk Maggs Productions Website, not a big update in that the only change has been the change of the copyright year!
Yeah big change... I know, but it is all part of keeping the website alive.
So if the Blog count is correct I now have to chose a new target, which is 150 Blogs, looking back over the years I see that 150 is not that high a target so that's what I shall go for.
Other news that did not make my earlier Blog today was that I have updated the Dirk Maggs Productions Website, not a big update in that the only change has been the change of the copyright year!
Yeah big change... I know, but it is all part of keeping the website alive.
So What's Going on Then
I don't know what has come all over me, I mean this is getting out of hand, in that I have Blogged every day this year so far!
It will not last I am sure, real life and work will see to that and with all the changes at work I just know it will.
But as I have a 100% success rate in doing a Blog this year I thought I might just enjoy the moment.
I do want to say here that my and the ipod touch are getting along fine. the only thing that I have that I do not like is that when you are in the apps shop and ask for info on an app or download it the menu always takes you back up to the very top of the apps list, this can get to be very annoying when you have got yourself some 3 or more screens deep in the apps listing.
As with all new toys they overuse has worn off a bit and I find that I use it as an mp3 player more but now and then I can collect my mail and all that sort of stuff.
The unit I have is 32G and I have 11G free, yes I know that an awful lot of music but then I like music and also podcasts.
It will not last I am sure, real life and work will see to that and with all the changes at work I just know it will.
But as I have a 100% success rate in doing a Blog this year I thought I might just enjoy the moment.
I do want to say here that my and the ipod touch are getting along fine. the only thing that I have that I do not like is that when you are in the apps shop and ask for info on an app or download it the menu always takes you back up to the very top of the apps list, this can get to be very annoying when you have got yourself some 3 or more screens deep in the apps listing.
As with all new toys they overuse has worn off a bit and I find that I use it as an mp3 player more but now and then I can collect my mail and all that sort of stuff.
The unit I have is 32G and I have 11G free, yes I know that an awful lot of music but then I like music and also podcasts.
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This is an image that I like a lot, one of the reasons being that it is very similar to an image I took sometime ago. NY is a place that I would love to go to
01 January, 2009
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst: Daily Photo #389
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst: Daily Photo #389 Just seen this picture from one of the Blogs that I read when I have the time. My two cats Mizzyb and Ant both always seem to do this when I have a camera around, why, not a clue, glad that I am not being singled out by the felines of this world.
1 and 99 to go
So I did not make the 100 Blogs last year in 2008 so can you guess what I want to try and do for this year? yes you got it 100 for 2009.
I shall continue to use this Blog as a notebook to myself and all that sort of stuff. It really is amazing just how quick you can and do forget stuff from a few weeks ago so that's what this Blog will continue to be.
I shall continue to use this Blog as a notebook to myself and all that sort of stuff. It really is amazing just how quick you can and do forget stuff from a few weeks ago so that's what this Blog will continue to be.
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