Skywatch Friday Post

The Lake District, UK.

"Dear native brook! wild streamlet of the West!
How many various-fated years have passed...
Visions of childhood! oft have ye beguiled
Lone manhood`s cares, yet waking fondest sighs:
Ah! that once more I were a careless child!"

- To the River Otter, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I love everyone's pictures, they're great!

This picture was taken while on a walk with my dad and my uncle - we meandered along a river and ended the day with cake! :-) The sky was so alive though, it was almost tactile the way it held its own in your vision, against the hills and the trees. (Does that make sense?)

[This picture is posted as part of the Skywatch Meme.]

Snow Leopard episode

Last night I gamely decided to update my sixth month old laptop to Snow Leopard (from Leopard). The first part was easy; the computer took about 50 minutes to go through the loading process, and when it was done nearly everything, and every setting, I'd started with remained. Simple right? Wrong!

My computer was noisy (like a hoover) and overheating regularly, all yesterday and today. So, living in a city for my studies, I toddled off to the apple store. Apparently my anti-virus software (Sophus) which worked fine on Leopard was not speced for Snow Leopard. It was trying to run and falling, using 100% CPU [or something!] and so deleting it from the My Computer Library solved the problem.

A lengthy tale.

If you have noise (or speed) problems following an up

date to Snow Leopard check to see if you are running any software which cannot work in the new operating system correctly. This may solve your problems.

As a further note to any techs out there, now I have upgraded, even by downloading DIVX for Mac I cannot view embedded divx videos in Safari, only in firefox - what should I do to correct the issue? :-)

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year everyone!

May 2010 be wonderful and bright! :D

Grease retro meets my life...

I have a fan heater! Finally!

It's my first, it's industrial strength, and I'm hoping it will make getting out of bed in a morning look just a little bit more easy.

I had a choice of 10-15 dull white plastic ones, and a red metal beast, so of course I went with the red one. :)

Mini review: it's sort of LOUD, it trundles along.... but it sure does heat quickly. And for the price it looks very nice... It has a tilt sensor thing which is extremely unfortunate: if you pick it up and move it the thing shuts itself off, like a fuse has gone and it can take you ages to get it back up and running. :(

Can't you just see it on the set of Grease??

Dreamy bags - Mandarina Duck, New Range!

Mandarina Duck are my absolute favorite bag designers, they make comfortable bags which actually sit obediently on my shoulder and are made from top quality materials! What more could a girl ask for?

These are my two 'wants' from the 2009/2010 collection, see what you think:

1) Haiku

(pictured top)

2) Lips

(pictured bottom)