Last night, thanks to the Computer Active ultimate guide to free computing, I downloaded Thunderbird - and I'm glad I did. For years I've happily used Gmail but something's happened recently which makes it impossible for me to send an email with an attachment. I suspect it's something to do with the underlying Google (the older version) or with the way my set up now reacts to Google Chrome. When I move over to the little Asus EeePC, which uses Firefox with Linux, I can send a gmail with an attachment - so long as the material I want to attach is already on that machine. Problems begin when I try to transfer stuff using a memory stick. I used to be able to do this without any bother. Why can't I do it now? (We used to have an acronym RTFM. I know. I'm one of those people who reads the manual before even switching on the power. Trouble is :: the manual doesn't cover the process I want to use. Hey ho! The wind and the rain!) There's always the awful possibility that it's me that's the cause of the problems. And I used to be such a dab hand with a Sinclair Spectrum. 48K and a color screen!! I'm tempted, very tempted, to download Firefox on this machine. (Fujitsu Siemens Amilo.) The thought of that combined with the Open Office I downloaded last week is almost too good to miss.
Saturday, 6 February 2010
saturday 6 february 2010
I look out of the back window and I see catkins on one of the trees in the hedgerow.
metope of the parthenon, british museum
This is one of my favourite pieces of sculpture
and the display is outstanding.
Friday, 5 February 2010
friday moming 5 february 2010
A good start on a fresh version of 'Pagans and Others in the Roman Empire'
Thursday, 4 February 2010
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