April 23rd - April 29th 2007
Sunday On the Heath
Saturday Daffodils
Friday Says no
Thursday Daffodils
Wednesday Says yes
Tuesday Kew Gardens
Monday Sprung
Sunday 29th April
Just for the record - no, I never met Ted Heath in a cottage.
Indeed, I'm appalled by the very suggestion. (I'm old, but I'm not that old.)
Saturday 28th April
Daffodils, Spring 2007
Friday 27th April
Speaking of computers, and people who speak like computers, I've recently had cause to correspond with some new high-end server-type guy at work.
He works days, I work nights, so we're not likely to meet in meat-space any time soon. So, for all I know, he's the very essence of human warmth and only writes the way he does as a kind of post-modern pastiche of High Geek.
But ("Please revert with any questions whatsoever") I don't think so.
(When we do get to meet, hopefully he'll be up for discussing what must surely be some kind of viral spam, a recent email purportedly originating from 'Technical@[insertcomapnynamehere].co.uk' with a subject-line 'I got nothing to lose the murmur of conversation from the other patrons' and which reads, in its entirety, 'He was down on his knees'...)
Thursday 26th April
Daffodils, Spring 2007
Wednesday 25th April
The other reason I've had not enough time to spend on Blogadoon has been, tada, my new 24" iMac.
Unpacking and setting up this piece of gorgeousness is the least of it. (It works so out-of-the-box that in retrospect I'm slightly surprised it wasn't talking to me as it came through the door.)
No, it's the ramifications that take up the time.
Like the fact that it's one of the first Macs to centre on an Intel processor - which is great but which means that large areas of my software estate could do with updating. And my modem.
Like the fact that it comes fitted, as standard, with a 250GB hard drive (as opposed to the 150GB on my last model), so suddenly I have room to expand my iTunes, my eyeTV archive, my porn collection...
Like the fact, above all, that it comes with Airport built in. Which means I'm practically duty-bound to move my old machine into the bedroom, seek out a compatible Airport card for it, get up to speed with wireless networking protocols etc etc etc. (And all to do what, I hear you ask? Good question - but, hey, now I can watch porn in my bedroom! Another step forward for civilisation.)
Plus, because the new machine suddenly integrates all sorts of functions that were scattered amongst all sorts of little black boxes (goodbye USB hub! goodbye back-up drive! goodbye external amp and speakers!), I now have several square yards of desk space returned to me. Which implies, if nothing else, a pretty radical cleaning and dusting operation.
Labour-saving devices, tcha.
Tuesday 24th April
Kew Gardens, Spring 2007
Monday 23rd April
I need to apologise for the fact that Blogadoon has been even more desultory, even more stop-go, even more is-he-dead-yet, than usual (which is truly saying something).
It's largely down to seasonal considerations.
Partly because, as 1st April approaches, all one's colleagues suddenly realise they have to exercise their remaining holiday allocations or lose them entirely and then, as April 1st recedes, they find they've got into the holiday habit and help themselves to an extra cheeky half. Leaving those of us who, um, don't really do the holiday thing to cover in their absence.
Partly because, what with all this sudden sunny weather, I feel duty bound to spend what little spare daylight time I have taking my camera out and about (as with this week's trip to Parliament Hill Fields whither I sallied forth in sunshine to take some panoramic views of London only to get there and find it pouring with rain).
But mainly because in the Spring, an old man's fancies... (let's stop there before we start turning stomachs).
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