30 junio 2009
crutches
And, by the by, I am sooooooo pissed off by these new glasses - they dig behind my ears and very painfully too!! I still can't believe I have paid nearly £300 for my disability, and got an ill fit!
on age
Well, it's been a while - a good while - but hey, I never even liked blogs in the first place. So I think I'm not doing badly here. By the way, the blog come-back has nothing to do with MJ's death (tempting as it might be to put together a small collection of miscelanea...). What originated the blog thought was (and of course i've had other thoughts since the last one, but didn't feel like sharing them with the empty space) the sudden realization that I'm a lot older than I thought I was!
(I can see how very much inconsequential this statement might seem, but it's your own fault - you know, curiosity killed the cat)
Anyway, wondering about Facebook I came across some old friends, friends from High School, which I thought really wasn't that long ago,... only to find out that many of them are married (!) with children (!!) and looking very very VERY much like they are already approaching a mid-life crisis (!!!) And here I am, still struggling with the concept of 'pension scheme' (what?) or mortgage (urgh) or, worse, taxes (******) hoping I haven't missed some extremely important and crucial revelation that was meant to make my life an 'adult' one.
Having said that, I was sort of hoping that this generation would change patterns and that our 20s would not be the age of friends getting married, 30s the one of meeting their children, and 40s when some start to be in bad shape.
The problem is not getting older - but where are our social evolutionary patterns? It doesn't matter how much Science can do these days. Our 20s are still the time of your friends getting married. Oh well. At least I know I will make a difference in this respect - if only for the sake of evolution!
(I can see how very much inconsequential this statement might seem, but it's your own fault - you know, curiosity killed the cat)
Anyway, wondering about Facebook I came across some old friends, friends from High School, which I thought really wasn't that long ago,... only to find out that many of them are married (!) with children (!!) and looking very very VERY much like they are already approaching a mid-life crisis (!!!) And here I am, still struggling with the concept of 'pension scheme' (what?) or mortgage (urgh) or, worse, taxes (******) hoping I haven't missed some extremely important and crucial revelation that was meant to make my life an 'adult' one.
Having said that, I was sort of hoping that this generation would change patterns and that our 20s would not be the age of friends getting married, 30s the one of meeting their children, and 40s when some start to be in bad shape.
The problem is not getting older - but where are our social evolutionary patterns? It doesn't matter how much Science can do these days. Our 20s are still the time of your friends getting married. Oh well. At least I know I will make a difference in this respect - if only for the sake of evolution!
28 enero 2008
Vista hates Wireless
Well,
turns out one of the niceties of Win Vista is that it disagrees with most routers on the market - routers that would otherwise be fine with XP -
After a couple of headache afternoons, and forum search, I came across something that seems to fix it:
1 - disable the saving power option in the connecting device properties
2 - disable the ipvc6 protocole
3- manually configure the ipvc4 one.
4- restart
I couldn't possibly give more precise directions, because it is a hell of a confusing labyrinth, and I only manage to come across the right windows after clicking on several options first, almost all of them around the "manage network connections" and "manage wireless connections" menus, as well as double clicking on the properties of everything related to both.
But it worked, we finally were able to identify the network as home and private, and therefore get the bloody access!!
:S
turns out one of the niceties of Win Vista is that it disagrees with most routers on the market - routers that would otherwise be fine with XP -
After a couple of headache afternoons, and forum search, I came across something that seems to fix it:
1 - disable the saving power option in the connecting device properties
2 - disable the ipvc6 protocole
3- manually configure the ipvc4 one.
4- restart
I couldn't possibly give more precise directions, because it is a hell of a confusing labyrinth, and I only manage to come across the right windows after clicking on several options first, almost all of them around the "manage network connections" and "manage wireless connections" menus, as well as double clicking on the properties of everything related to both.
But it worked, we finally were able to identify the network as home and private, and therefore get the bloody access!!
:S
21 enero 2008
15 enero 2008
in and out for life
We have always had the option of joining in - we can join a gym, join a political party, join a fencing club, and become organ donors. Why, then, joining in is ok, but opting out is not?
The UK government is talking about a new system of organ donation in which, instead of working on the assumption that everyone's out and whoever wants joins in, they choose to assume that everyone's in unless someone opts out.
Maybe the problem is not giving your organs away, once they are not useful for you anymore. Maybe it's the feeling underlying having to opt out - when we join in we feel good, but when we are in and decide to leave one feels miseráble.
The old system allowed us not to face this decision, and still feel good about it. Now, we have to switch the TV off, go to the hospital and look at the nurse face to face, while we request being deleted from the donors list - I guess we will all feel ashamed.
..maybe that´s why the government likes the idea, perhaps. Some will not want to face the "shame", and will therefore become "unwillingly silent donors" instead.
what type are you? In, out, or too ashamed to tell?
..clever..
The UK government is talking about a new system of organ donation in which, instead of working on the assumption that everyone's out and whoever wants joins in, they choose to assume that everyone's in unless someone opts out.
Maybe the problem is not giving your organs away, once they are not useful for you anymore. Maybe it's the feeling underlying having to opt out - when we join in we feel good, but when we are in and decide to leave one feels miseráble.
The old system allowed us not to face this decision, and still feel good about it. Now, we have to switch the TV off, go to the hospital and look at the nurse face to face, while we request being deleted from the donors list - I guess we will all feel ashamed.
..maybe that´s why the government likes the idea, perhaps. Some will not want to face the "shame", and will therefore become "unwillingly silent donors" instead.
what type are you? In, out, or too ashamed to tell?
..clever..
08 enero 2008
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