Just a Quick Test - Sat 28/2

Just a quick test post using the new Newton with the Compaq wireless card to make sure it's working ok. Seems to be-had some initial concerns about the screen - seems a bit squidgy in places - but after using it for a while it seems to be fine really. So that makes two functional Newton MessagePad 2000s and two functional MessagePad 2100s - should be enough to keep going even if they start falling to pieces - which I don't think they will - they seem to be pretty solidly put together machines. Only real worry now is the 2010 bug next year!

Another Day Another Dollar - Fri 27/2

Long week at work - started quite badly, dipped a bit in the middle, but ended a bit better. Thankfully. Looks like I'm going to be off for about three weeks at the start of April! Although I may have to be interruptible... Not sure how well that will go down at home, but hey.

Got some guitar practice done this week -decreasing pain in left hand is a good thing but I seem to have lost quite a lot of the ground made up last year with my January layoff sadly.

Domestic situation a bit fractious this week, but hopefully will settle down again soon. Another weekend away this weekend, so looking forward to that! Lots of running around to do before that though... Phones to set up, computer to take to the dump after disassembling it, dry cleaning to attend to, things to put in the loft and no doubt more I don't know about yet! But it's worth it in the end I reckon.

Ha ! - Mon 9/2

And do you know what? Blogging with the Newton at Heathrow worked!

More Good Times - Sun 8/2

So, Saturday was a day of getting the MG back out and on the road - success! And at the first time of asking too! I expected to get it going, but really thought I would have a bit of a fight. given the recent cold weather and that I'm not even sure if I'd started it yet this year! But good 30+ year old British engineering didn't fail me :)

After that, in the early hours of the morning, had a brainwave about how to make next weekend work - hopefully it'll work out.

Now it's Sunday, and I'm at Edinburgh airport waiting for a plane to Heathrow, nursing a Corona and watching the rugby :)

Got down to Slough without incident. Nice relaxed evening with some food, a quick scout of the location for tomorrow's meeting and a good long chat, and now it's time to shut down for the night. Only fly in the feelgood ointment is that the nylon Newton case I got last week smells "fusty", I can't seem to get rid of the smell and now it's making the Newton whiff too :'(

Now sitting at Heathrow airport trying to get The Cloud wifi access to work so I can post this blog!

A Good Note To End On - Fri 6/2

After a fraught day or two at home, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday turned out pretty well. Wednesday things smoothed over a bit at home. New strings turned up so I restrung the Mexican Strat with 010 strings instead of the usual 009s. We'll see how that pans out. Thursday was a pretty good day at work - lots of stuff sorted out. A fun evening of DVD watching followed-Tom Cruise's cameo in Tropic Thunder is the best thing I've ever seen him do. Friday at work was a day of almost non stop meetings - all of which went a bit better than expected. On train home now...

Came home to find the Newton case I ordered on eBay earlier in the week had arrived, so now had a mini workstation of sorts to take down to Slough on Sunday - indeed, I'm typing this with the Newton keyboard in the case at home on Saturday (having started scribbling this blog by pen on the train on Friday)... Even more Newon love, after finishing this off in the Newton Notes app, I'll use Adam Tow's nBlog along with a wireless network card to post this... 11 year old technology comes up trumps again... ! (Although that said, the XML-RPC library blew chunks for a while, resulting in this post being reposted about 6 or 7 times, but hey - not to worry...)

Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Tue 3/2

So, no blogs in January - you'd think it had been a quiet monthor something ;) Plenty happened -gone of it even noteworthy! Went to the cinema a couple of times (Australia-ok, The Reader-very good despite having Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes), had some lovely social times, came second in the pub quiz umpteen times and finally started taking charge of grooming our dog. Despite several fights and bites, we still seem to be pals though. Got back to doing some guitar practice again, and today went to an Apple workshop on Logic - so might start getting into that soon. Have also agreed to help take care of a variety of animals at the end of March with Cathy - including three horses. It's been over 30 years since I spent much time with horses ! Should be fun though :)