C-Pen

It's come! I haven't yet explored its scanning qualities as I'm too busy using it as a mouse to get back on my desktop. It has to be said that it makes a rather clumsy mouse (or perhaps that's the fault of the mouser), but that is, after all, its secondary function.

It's great to be back on the desktop. I thank heaven for my laptop, but it kept freezing because it was 'out of resources' every time I opened Eudora and my browser at the same time

Gotta go - The Bill is just starting.

Disposing of old computers

You can try to sell them of course. You can pass them on to a friend. You can bin them (not good for the environment). Or you can use them to help the Third World. Computer Aid International "has already shipped over 37,000 PCs to more than 90 developing countries. Of those 37,000 shipped over 25,000 have gone to educational institutions and the remaining to community organisations working in fields as diverse as HIV/Aids, environment, human rights, and primary healthcare.".

They do have a limited collection service (they're based in London), but I use Parcel2go.com. Their rates are good, and they have a special low price for Computer Aid donations (at least, they did, last time I sent one.)

Of Mice and Women

I've been hitting the credit cards lately (so no change there) and buying all those accoutrements without which no home office is complete. I have a beautiful minimalist silver mesh letter tray that will set off my iMac to perfection [SIGH].

I am now the proud possessor of a cross-cut shredder. I'm still playing ... I mean familiarising myself with its various features. I have also installed a pull-out keyboard shelf on my desk. The mouse sits on a little pad to the side. It was a nice mouse. It was optical, but not cordless because I found they ate batteries. So the cord droops down under the desk. On the left-hand side, because I'm left-handed. The shredder is under the desk. On the left-hand side. Just under the drooping cord. You can probably guess the rest. It made the most dreadful sound, like someone flatlining. But more plaintive.

Luckily I had just ordered a C-Pen pen scanner, and that doubles as a mouse. Until it arrives, I have my battered old laptop. No point in getting another mouse. My iMac will be here soon [SIGH].

The answer is blowing in the wind

And the question is, "What are they doing out there?". 'Out there' is off the Kent coast, and 'they' are installing a wind farm. Read all about it here. You can see a picture of Resolution, the strange vessel that has been exciting the curiosity of the dog walkers of our English Shangri-Lah [COUGH] here.