That Ginger Guy?

Many thanks to EddieH for his nice comments on this blog recently.
I hope his essays don't herald the end of his own blog. I think my educative years aged 16 - 18 were the most grim I've ever had on this earth - be assured, life does get better!
Check his blog out at thatgingerguy.com!

Final Trainers for a while

Oh man, I must STOP buying trainers. I don't think I've ever owned so many in my life. For whatever reason I've really started getting into the designs of them. I am not a fashionista, and I don't wear particularly trendy clothes, but I think wearing a cool pair of trainers makes you feel good. Some I don't wear if I go outside the house - not because I don't like them, but because I want to keep them clean and nice and new!

I've stopped looking at my Schuh wish list.

This is the last pair I will buy for some time. I'm talking YEARS, I promise!

Windows 7 PC

Originally written in January:
I've been a buyer of Fujitsu Siemens PCs for the last 10 years (4 in total). I've also had an HP which was good too. Unfortunately, the most recent FS one I bought, which was fairly high spec at the time, is lagging, slow, hangs for ages and has never, I have felt, been as good as I expected from a new PC.

So it's about time I bought a new one - I got a high spec Acer Aspire M3802. Favourable reviews on eBuyer, and QUIET they say (has to be for me as I record in the same room). 4Gb RAM, etc. It's nice, but Windows 7 feels like going back to square one with learning computing. I've gone from XP to 7 without touching Vista. 7 won't let me install my audio editing software Cool Edit 2000, and has no Outlook Express - my favourite email program for the hundreds of messages I send and receive every day.

So a bit disappointed, as I usually am with new purchases. Do I expect too much?

One thing that is FANTASTIC is the search box in every window. So quick to find files now. Outlook 2007 is pretty good too (mainly for the search facility again), but I still miss OE.