NeonBlue Dreams
Living on the edge looking in - the random ramblings of a geek girl

No…this isn’t about keeping smut and pr0n online, or keeping your computer dusted and not covered in grubby finger-marks, but about keeping it clean and free from any nasties like viruses, spyware, trojans and such like – commonly referred to collectively as “malware”.

Last week I had a problem with my laptop which I suspected may [...]

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Well, it’s goodbye to August. I’ve no idea where it went to. Come to think of it, I’m not entirely sure where January, February, March, April, May, June, and July went to either!
It’s been a busy month (hence the lack of me or Bliss around here recently) and I’ve been off on my travels to [...]

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I think I’m probably behind the times on this one (just a tad, considering it was invented in 1998!). One of the small bits of slightly useless trivia I’ve learned on one of the current Open University courses I’m doing (T175) is that in 1998, the Swiss watch makers, Swatch, re-invented time, in the form [...]

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Okay, so I really was intending to post a bit more. I seem to have got a bit distracted with a lot of forum maintenance though recently – damned thing’s practically a full time job!
On the positive side, I did it! Got to the bottom of my inbox and replied to all those emails that [...]

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Yes I was. Honest, and a proper post, not just some half-hearted whinge about being tired. Actually I’ve got all sorts of crap I want to ramble on about at the moment, but not enough hours in the day.
The day started off bad, briefly improved for a while this morning when I was actually handed [...]

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I’m all for nice automated things that save time and money…that’s if they are really automated…
Take my employers’ new system for booking meeting rooms. In the old days we used to have to phone the post room, who rather confusingly also dealt with meeting room bookings, amongst a host of other things. So, you’d phone [...]

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I can’t believe it was really 13th April when I made my last post here…I’m sure it wasn’t that long! Anyhow, both Rachel and Bliss are now back, and normal service shall now be resumed.
So where have we been? Well we’ve not been anywhere, and are firmly of the opinion that it’s you, dear reader, [...]

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Okay, so just what happened to May? I know that one minute I was working 16 hour days and crazily work on two web sites, plan a weekend trip with 50-odd people, and work on two Open University assignments, but the next thing I looked up and the month had all but ended, and I’d [...]

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I think it’s May when you’re supposed to say “white rabbits” on the first day of the month as the first thing you say when you wake up, before you say anything else. My mum though always says it whatever the month just incase, as it’s supposed to be good luck.
I’m not sure if the [...]

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For the past few weeks I’ve been very side-tracked by my health, managing my forum and trying to mount a takeover bid to rule the world or something like that, holding online meetings which with an average length of three hours have somewhat sapped what little physical strength I have, chilling out and reading, getting [...]

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