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Lost in Computer Hades

by Kacey on 9/28/2009

I really, REALLY want to use swear words. But I won’t. At least not on here. If you stop by my house this week, you might hear some good ones though. I’m in computer h. e. double hockey sticks. Seriously. The PC died. The one that had all of SuperGuy’s work stuff on it. :wallbash:

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Sitting there, looking at me innocently. Ha! The mean, evil PC. (yes, I know I need to vacuum my office floor.) As a total aside, how much longer do I have to live with this teal/green carpeting. I’m SO over it…

I’m a Mac person, but we need a PC to run SuperGuy’s business software. The software that they only guarantee compatibility with Windows XP… :mad2:

Windows XP is about impossible to find anymore, and costs more to get it than the Vista machines. So…I decide we’ll go with a Vista machine and I’ll strong arm the software into compliance.

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I go to Best Buy. I ask for the cheapest desktop with Vista 32 bit on it. They have two to choose from. I pick one. They are out of it. I pick the other…they are out of it. :help:

So they call around and locate it at another Best Buy and off I go to pick up the machine. I get the stupid computer and I have been in agony ever since. I do not know Vista. At. All. I did have backed up DATA files. But there is that whole problem of finding the actual software programs… It took me until today to find SuperGuy’s software. Of course it then took me forever to find the software key. I did manage to install it and it runs…barely…on the Vista after spending all afternoon tweaking it. Okay, I’ll live with it. Oh, and did I mention I lost two months of data that I’ll have to re-enter in the process??

Moving onto our personal financial stuff…which I had on Microsoft Money…no idea what version I had, no idea where the software disks were. I DID find 4 different version of it. I’ve been using it forever for my finances…I was fairly certain I could rule out the 1998 !!! version of it… (and I do NOT know why WordPress insists on putting a space after the 1 key. Can’t figure it out…) Tried all my versions but none would open the file. So I finally Googled around and found a site that had trial versions to download. One by one I downloaded them. On my 3rd try…2004, by the way, I got my file to read. But the program shut down saying it would only work during the year 2004! :cursin:

So, I figured out Vista enough to go in and reset the date on my computer to September 2004. (I thought that was pretty clever!) I’m getting rather annoyed at this point. I’m going to try and figure out how to convert the files to Quicken, then convert that to Quickbooks for Mac. I’m SO over PCs. Really over them.

My office now looks like a bomb went off …

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I’m no where near finished with digging myself back out, converting data, and getting up and running again. Sigh. (oh, that towel up there? That’s right where the sun shines through in the morning and glares on my computer screen. I got tired of the glare and tacked up the towel to block it. The new trendy look in window treatments…)

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The only good thing out of all this? When we were at Best Buy I noticed that for $10 more we could get an 18″ flatscreen monitor. (grrr with the extra space again! Does it show an extra space between the 1 and the 8 for you??) So we bought it. Even though I don’t need it…and just bought a monitor for over at The Love Nest. Couldn’t pass up a $10 monitor.

So If you don’t see me out blog hopping this week, or if I seem in an unusually sullen mood on Facebook, ignore me. I’ll eventually get it all sorted out. Move as much as I can over to my beloved Mac, and hopefully get caught up on my real job later this week.

The saga of computer hades ends.

If you missed my blog post this weekend, I posted that September’s Photo of the Month theme is Purple! I’ll call for submissions, um, tomorrow! I’m running out of month!

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Overhead View

by Kacey on 4/14/2009

So have you ever gone to Google Maps and done a satellite view of your house? Type in your address on Google Maps and then click on the satellite view?

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See, there I am by the red arrow? See all the luscious woods that I back up too?

Okay, confess, have you ever done this with someone you know? A blogging friend? Old boyfriend? Wondering what it looks like where they live? An old house you used to live in? Your grandma’s house? You can confess here to us…

Okay, you’re going to tell me that I’m the only one…

I find the internet fascinating…it has totally changed our world, hasn’t it?

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What is Twitter

by Kacey on 9/29/2008

Are you one of those “what the heck is Twitter, anyway?” people? I was too. I signed up. Logged in. Got overwhelmed and didn’t go back for months. I didn’t get the whole mircoblogging thing.

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So, for you, those who like me who just kind of scratch your head and ask “what IS Twitter?”, I’ll try to explain a bit. I might even get you to check it out. To realize the potential. To get in on the fun.

(this is a long post, so I split it into two sections. Click on the more key if you need to to see the second half of the post.)

Easy Guide to Twitter:

Twitter is a microblogging platform. You have 140 characters to say what you want to say. No more, but you can use less. Twitter isn’t only about letting people know what you’re doing, what you’re eating, what the weather is…though people do filter in those brief comments about their lives. Twitter is about finding other like minded individuals and following them. It’s about instant access to information. It’s another building block in your online community.

Go to Twitter.com and sign up for an account. It’s quick, it’s easy. Use your real name, your pseudonym, your business name, or a name you’re know as online, depending on what/who you’re trying to connect to. A lot of people use their blog name.

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Okay, all signed up? Go to your settings page and upload a photo for your avatar. No, you don’t have to, but it sure makes it easier to keep track of people on twitter when they have a unique avatar.

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Go to some of your favorite blogs and see if they have a follow me on twitter link. Click on it and follow them. You’ll now see their updates. Easy, right?

Go to Twitter and type your first update into the box. Just type away. 140 characters. Go for it. Everyone following you will see what you said.

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This is what you’ll see. A list of updates from people you follow. (sorry for the blurry screen capture)

What’s this whole @ thing about?

You’ll see updates like this:

mentalmama @kaceyskeyboard How was your walk today?

This means Mental Mama has commented to me, but anyone following me will see the update.

What’s with Direct Messages?

Our same beloved Mental Mama could have sent the message to me directly:

d kaceyskeyboard You slacker I know you haven’t walked today. Wuss.

With a direct message, only the person it was sent to will see it. So I don’t have to hurt Mental Mama for yelling at me publicly. :wink:

I also have the Twitterific app installed on my iPhone and I can keep up with Twitter when I’m on the road. You don’t know how entertaining that can be on long road trips!

Now Some Really Cool Ways to Use Twitter. [click to continue…]

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