Author: Peg

Partly Cloudy. No not the weather – which is hot and sunny – but the Internet. Or at least my Internet.

Who knows if cloud computing is going to be around in 2 years. Or if it will take over computer based apps. I have tried some. Rejected some. And embraced others.

Big tropical thunder clouds:

1. Most favorite cloud application is Gmail. For a year or so, I didn’t quite trust it and downloaded my email using Thunderbird. Then, I started only downloading my “important” email. Now – Gmail collects and takes care of all my email accounts. I even let it delete mail from my mail servers. I not longer have any computer based email programs.
2. A cloud app that “just works” and that I completely forget about is DropBox. It keeps my passwords all sync-ed up between my two computers, each with a Ubuntu and XP partition. DropBox will do more and I may start using it for “offsite” backup.
3. Foxmarks – now called Xmarks, I think. It keeps my browser bookmarks in sync. DropBox would do that too – but, I have been using Foxmarks since it was a beta.

Little fluffy cloud toys:

1. Google Docs – I just use it for a few files.
2. Remember the Milk – I am not that busy. But, if Alzheimer’s kicks in big time – I might need it.
3. Google Voice – Don’t have very many friends – so I don’t get very  many phone calls from real people.

Summer finally arrived today. It is just plain hot. I am sure I should be annoyed by something. But, it is just too hot to get heated up.

Well, actually, I can get heated up about all this heat and fire over health care. This senior  has no problem with euthanasia and  strongly supports assisted suicide.

Yesterday I decided that I should fire up my little computer and be sure every thing still worked. In less than 10 minutes the Ubuntu partition was all updated and good to go. So, I booted up the XP partition.  An hour and several reboots later, I turned it off. Fired it back up this morning and it is still frantically downloading patches and updates to its private parts.

As for the slug, I found it walking home from volunteering on friday – fx01.

Management put up a notice in the elevators announcing that it tossing eggs off the balconies at pedestrians is not allowed. One of my neighbors said that he would not have paid an extra 100K for a balcony if he had known he couldn’t lob eggs over the edge. As for me, eggs are too expensive to toss. But then I buy eggs from fat red chickens at the farm market. Might feel like tossing eggs over board if I got them at Costco.

GOOD NEWS: I slapped the mouse a few times and bingo – it returned to life. I know it is a Microsoft mouse. But, we do get attached to our mice. Figure that I’ll die with mine gripped in my liver spotted hand.

I am suffering from what Carlton calls “unresolved discontent”.  That sounds classier than “in a funk”. No matter what you call it – it is  not approved behavior in our household.

But hey, at least I am not dead. You can tell I am alive because I updated my blog.

It is getting worse. I think my beloved mouse just died. New batteries did not return it to life. Now using the #3 backup mousie.