Took a little (584 miles) trip to Devon and back at the weekend and I have to say I love it!

Finally flew the thing, had a couple of 20+ minute flights this afternoon. It was a little windy really, but it made it back to earth safely.

We stumbled across this place last week, lovely old fashioned sweet shop. They even still served a quarter (Broken link http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=quarter+of+a+pound+in+grams) of a pound albeit translated into grams.

Vista suggested I tried Windows Update this morning to see if there was a fix to some problem which occurs every day. Windows Update helpfully said IE 7 was not newer than IE 5 and therefore I couldnt use it to access Windows Update.

Saw one of these buildings on Oxford Street today, I like the way they can remove all of the structure apart from the facade and simply hold that in place with what looks like heavy duty scaffolding while they rebuild the rest of the building.

So I’m on a wikipedia page which has a OGG file. These are the steps taken to listen to the OGG.

• Next to the link is a large play button. I click it. A Java system tray icon appears along with a large tooltip saying something about Java. Nothing else happens.

• I click play again, nothing

• I open the ‘media help’ page in a new tab

• Try to switch to the tab with the standard keyboard shortcut ctrl-2. nothing

• Switch to the tab with the mouse, windows dialog ‘application has stopped responding’ Firefox crashes.

• Re-open firefox, visit the wikipedia page, navigate straight to the media help page.

• Download the ogg codec pack

• Install the codec pack

• Tell windows ‘yes i meant to double click that installer’

• Wait

• Click the ogg link on the original page, offered to save file (not play it)

• Save the file to disk

• Find file (firefox put it some temp folder so had to use find to locate it)

• Double click it. ‘Do you want windows to look on the internet to find out how best to handle this file?’ yes

• Windows cannot identify the file.

• Manually run Windows Media player, drag file onto player window.

• Player is busy ’loading library’ so nothing happens

• Wait, try again

• Nothing, no message.

• Shift Right click -> open with, manually choose Windows Media Player. file plays.

yay! 2008 and I feel computers have really come a long way.

I’ve been thinking about getting one of these for about as long as I can remember. Well today I signed the paperwork. My new baby is delivered next Wednesday. As much as I’m excited about the new one I’m also a little bit sorry to see the old one go.

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Managed to get to Forbidden Planet at the weekend and bought some silly Japanese toys to go with Vader.

Finally ordered a new laptop, my G4 1.2Ghz is showing its age after some 4 or so years of use.