Technology Thing 7

Easily my favourite piece of technology is the knife, closely followed by the bed, the boat and the bicycle. Fire's pretty good, too. I approve of wine, and of chocolate.

Digital technology? Cellphone. I love that I can talk to the Boy when he's miles out at sea on his yacht, text my mum and dad in Spain, or that I can speak to my kids in Tonga while we're in the middle of the South Waikato whizzing down SH1 at no more than the posted speed limit. The camera is handy (sometimes), and the alarm is the only one I own. We still pay way too much for calls and texts in NZ (tho the bestmates thing is a good deal) - but it's still worth it!

Flickr 3rd party

Love the colr pickr http://www.krazydad.com/colrpickr/ - so pretty! And the mappr tool might be good for some serious travel bragging. Actually, thinking about it, the photo below of San Vitale in Ravenna was found using mappr.

BA not humbug

Today I am handing in the last piece of coursework for my BA (in social anthropology. *very* career-oriented!) Tomorrow I finish up at libraries, Thursday the tenancy starts on our house at Mangakino and we're moving furniture in on the weekend. The Boy will finally be resigning from the hell job also on Wednesday. Big week.

But possibly the most exciting news of the day is that there are buses in Italy that go to the white truffle village from Florence! Yay! I am spared the ordeal of driving on the RH side!

Flickr

Hmm. It appears some other people have digital cameras these days too. I am not the only one any more. anyway, this is why I want to go to Italy: I have to say, though, the library computer system isn't loving these huge pages full of graphics. And I am having trouble so far figuring out how to actually add an image rather than just the link to it. Have resorted to saving it to desktop etc etc.

Oh, and also, where the Boy went on holiday w/o me. italy will be the best revenge tho :-D

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13535005@N05/sets/72157602020159311/

flying kiwis

Unbelievably, I am going to England next month. Also Italy. And The Boy and I are going to Mangakino for the summer. Pinch me, I'm dreaming.

Speaking of chocolate

I should have had cocoa last night. Valrhona with soy milk and no more sugar. The Boy makes the best cocoa in the known universe.

Thing 4

Well, bebo is sure a lot more visually restful than myspace. Both of them give me a giddy unsteady feeling, like the feeling I get when I think about how very many tv shows there are that I will never see or even know about. Overload! Overload! Meltdown imminent!

As for facebook ... people keep sending me invitations. Very old school Windows 3.x look. The thought of having yet another username and password to remember makes my brain hurt tho. (Also i keep doing typos, prob time for a break.) I seem to vaguely recall there's a password vault site somewhere. Perhaps that's the answer to all my woes.

Nah, it'll never replace chocolate.

hi honey, I'm home

hmm, insights. well, one of my personas is a fraction of the mighty acl elgar, so i thought i should make the effort to see what all the shooting's about. also, in one of my real lives i am currently of no fixed abode, a nasty sinister phrase. perhaps a home in cyberspace will somehow compensate for having all my worldlies in a storage locker in parnell ...

in technical terms tho, the hardest part so far is thinking of names: user names, passwords, etc. this is something i often have trouble with. impressed with the front-end ease of modern UIs, so smooth.