multifarious mushrooms

I’ve just upgraded my wordpress to 2.5.1 as advised. Luckily the theme I have at the moment is working.

But I’m still waiting for some of the themes I like to become compatible with 2.5.

Although, this upgrade is meant to be a security fix, I can’t see much that’s different from 2.5 just yet.

Tonight at 12 midnight the CDMA mobile network in Australia was turned off and the 3G network for mobiles (or cell phones) is now the only one available. I was listening to all the complaints on late night radio. Old CDMA networked phones in rural areas were working and now the 3G doesn’t. Some rang into the program using Skype because their mobiles were not working. There is going to be a real hullabaloo over this tomorrow.

Our new computer came with a skype headset, so I decided to get it going. I know one person who uses Skype but I didn’t call, as it was too late but the test was nice a clear. There’s chat there and there are pitfalls. Within 5 minutes I was being hit on by a Dutch man who was 38 and you know how old I am. He wanted a picture. No way. On the public phone bit I heard all sorts or weird phone calls. And to ring a land line or mobile you must buy credit. Cheaper than using a mobile or land line, I hear.

I’ve just added Twitter to my blog. It seems all the rage. But with Twitter people seem to write the most mundane things about ‘what they are up to’, including some fairly lewd activities.

So for Australians at the moment what is the solution for their telecommunications. I can use a 3G mobile, twitter, Facebook chat, gmail chat, landline and now Skype. But I live in a major capital city. It’s the remote and rural areas which are having problems. If I were stuck at my computer a lot, which I am a fair bit, then I think Skype would be best. But everyone must have Skype for it to be free. My friends don’t seem to have it yet. But it would bring down the phone bills if I got some credit for it to ring various businesses or radio stations, because I often use my mobile to ring such places as I need to be looking at my computer for details pertinent to my call.

I hope more people will get on to Skype soon so we can pay nothing for our phone calls then.

I took a personality test and a multiple intelligence test.

Here are the results. The badge ought to take you to the site where you too can take the tests

I bet you take the test too!

I have 2 computers networked via a router. The original computer had 3 users on it, so before setting up the new computer we copied many files of the users other than myself. But recently we found that one particular folder of documents hadn’t been backed up and that file was needed over at the other computer.
Now on a networked computer, you’d think you’d be able to share files fairly easily, but I’ve never quite worked that out and we don’t really need to. But now we did. I tried backing up this particular file to disc and inserting that into the other computer’s CD disk. No luck. We don’t have a USB flash drive. We could have burned the file and swapped it over, but all burning happens on the other computer and I didn’t really want that program on my computer (it’s pretty chockers now).

I couldn’t email the file either because I could not get to his documents, only mine. His email is no longer on this computer so he couldn’t so it either.

Then bleeding edge came to the rescue again. I was reading the column in our local newspaper and noted a utility called Karen’s Replicator which could swap almost anything to another section of the network.

So I downloaded it and could find his documents now and move them to my documents and then email the file in question.

Guess what! it ended up that the file was ‘write only’. Maybe that had caused many of the other problems! But I just made the file writable again and emailed it again. Sweet!

PicLens firefox add on, which I have downloaded, instantly transforms my browser into a full-screen 3D experience for viewing images across the web. The new interactive “3D Wall” and built-in search function lets you effortlessly drag, click, zoom, and zip your way around a wall of pictures for an extraordinary viewing experience.

I also attempted to add the piclens plugin for wordpress but failed. I know why now. My host blocks external RSS sites unless I ask for the ones I want to be whitelisted.

Now Piclens will allow you to download videos and watch them on a full screen.

This video will explain it all a lot better than I can sum up.