I’ve always been pretty good at learning things. In nearly everything I’ve done someone has commented that I learn quickly or that I’m good at it. Of course I’m not good at everything, I tend to be okay at most things and the things I’m not good at I tend not to enjoy so I […]
Archives for October 2006
Google Reader is better than ever!
Thanks to Clifton, I went and had a look at Google Reader today. If you’ve been reading for a while then you’ll know that I’ve said a bit about Google Reader before. I liked it because I could read posts individually and mark them as read when I’d actually read them. I didn’t like it […]
Flock?
Has anyone used Flock? It looks a bit interesting and these people seem to love it. I’m mainly drawn to it because it can be used to upload lots of photos to Photobucket, which could be quite useful. I’m fairly anti-installprogramswillynilly so I’d appreciate more feedback on this software.
Oven
I really like cooking. Especially baking because you prepare it and then it comes out of the oven, it seems so neat and tidy, you can clear away the preparation dishes and voila, it comes out nice and warm. Unlike cooking a stir-fry or bolognese when it gets too hot and spits all over the […]
Gnome desktop
I finally figured out how to make my desktop nice and clean. Okay, so hubby helped a lot because my Google searches weren’t bringing up much. What one needs is gconf, which can be used to edit application and desktop preferences. I already had it installed but it wasn’t in my applications list, perhaps they […]
Ubuntu
On Friday the new versions of Ubuntu and their related projects came out. So on Saturday Hubby and I went to task updating to Edgy Eft, but instead of installing Kubuntu we decided this time to go for Ubuntu. The main difference as far as I’m concerned is that Ubuntu uses the Gnome desktop environment […]