Quiet but successful day - MP4 Player - And Computer work.

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Picture 1 is a Rhine Holiday shot from where we left the boat at Basel. We always used to pronounce it Barl, I think, but now Bazel is preferred. And who cares ? I'm happy enough with Bazel because we had no wish to give offence.

Picture 2 is some Beech Trees in Hardwick Park when we went to the Hardwick Inn for Y's Birthday meal.

If someone says they aren't Beech, with sufficient firmness, I shan't argue. Someone once told me that a tree grows to the same shape as its leaf. And I've always found it to be more-or-less true with mature trees. It's a little harder while they are still toddlers or teenagers.

My day of quiet achievement began with around an hour's work transferring files from 'My Pictures' on my laptop, to my external Freecom Hard Drive.

The reason for this is that I suspect that on this machine (my laptop) the hard-disc is beginning to falter. There is much jumping about and occasional disinclination to do what it's told. As Bungus said the other day I have given it much to do and perhaps 'hammered it' a little.

If it failed, it would be hard to bear the complete loss of many hundreds of pictures.

Brian is to be admired. He has got into the habit of, when returning home from a shoot, he immediately burns the pictures onto a back-up CD. A very professional approach which we all should emulate. One advantage of Google Mail is that your own computer can crash, but all your mail and anything else you've saved in google-mail, is safely on Google's big computer and you can access it from wherever you happen to be and on whatever machine you happen to be using. Likewise with Picasa Web Albums and my Blog.

I managed to move just over 6GB of information which left my hard-disc looking like the picture on the right. Much healthier amount of free space than yesterday and hopefully taking some of the strain off the disc. I'm afraid it is still on the blink though - but every little helps !

A worst case scenario would be my computer crashing and me forgetting or mislaying my password. Perhaps I ought to have it tattooed on my chest.

Another hour or so was spent transferring a goodly selection of Y's CD collection onto her MP4 player. We hit on the idea of laptops side-by-side. Y had her CDs and her MP 4 plugged into her laptop, while I had the Zen user-manual open on mine. Together we shuffled through. We even managed to create a Playlist and a setting of Random Shuffle for playing them. It's a great little machine - when you get used to it, it's easy to work out what to do, or find particular tracks etc.

Tomorrow we'll have a go at her picture collection !

Roger called in around tea time and shared a pot of tea with us. He only lives round the corner and it was nice. We talked about photographs, inevitably, and he is a fellow subscriber to Ephotozine.

Comments

bungus ...... Glad you sorted out your Supanet. Easier to talk about than sorting out Virgin. When I read your second para, due to your putting the exclamation mark right up to the word Change! I read it as 'Changel' - a useful word for charming young ladies with English accents who change things in your favour.

Re Jill's keyboard. I read too much into an e-mail from her about the subject. She said "I shall carry on........" which I assumed to mean she would 'carry on' using her existing keyboard rather than replace it.

Thanks for the photo. But wearing your pink shirt and jacket without trousers at all, is perhaps overkill as a method of avoiding the 'tuck in/or not' decision.

Jill ...... I am pleased that Ro is a tucker in ! Wearing them flapping about outside is for woofters.

See e-mail re Hereford and 'neat'.

If you insist - A modem is "A device that converts the digital signals used inside a computer to an analogue system that can be transmitted over the phone lines, and vice versa".

I'm with you 100% about carrying music around. To me most music is just noise. My MP3 player carries all talk programmes which I download from bbc.co.uk. in the form of 'podcasts'. Please click here for the relevant page. When on our Rhine Holiday I took around 20 hours of listening because I knew I would be denied Radio 4. Have a look at the page and if it interests you I would be happy to talk you through the system.

Please see above re my misunderstanding of your position about your keyboard. Sorry !

anonymousrob ...... Brilliant Haiku !!! You've got a gift there I think. I'm taking the liberty of copying it here into the body of the blog because not everyone opens the 'comments' box -

"Wear your shirt outside
Why bother tucking it in?
It's cool and trendy"

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Quotation slot ...... Time and inclination for a relevant quote tonight..... Benchley should never have put himself down like this - his prose was magic !

"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous".

Robert Benchley

His name is a link to his Wiki page and, as you will see if you open it, a very interesting multi-faceted man. I have only read him in an anthology (not a book review Rob!) but he was able to make me guffaw while reading. Only a few humourists have managed that.

"Sleep tight - hope to catch you tomorrow"



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