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Apple argh

 ♥Nov. 5th, 2014 // 03:20 pm♥
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Oh joy oh joy. Apple has 'improved' iCal in a really /fun/ way, boys and girls.

Now, if you do something so inefficient as to put "Brasserie Zédel, 20 Sherwood Street, W1F 7ED: Piccadilly Circus tube" into the location field, it helpfully corrects it to "20 Sherwood Street, London, England, W1F, United Kingdom", because *obviously* I don't actually need to know the name of the restaurant, or the full post code, and certainly not the station, but knowing which country it is in will be very helpful to me as I sit on the tube without internet access wondering which stop I need.

Anyone know if I can turn it off? Or deliberately break it (quite happy to break all iCal autocompletes in the process)? Or will I just (experimentation shows) have to type these things in on my phone and then very carefully not click one the location field on my laptop?

(I would complain about the way that it's now impossible to have a screen open in Reminders that *both* shows everything due *and* lets you create a new reminder that defaults to actually having a date, but then I remember that I'm the only person in the universe who uses it and don't bother. Although, if I am the only person who uses it then you'd think they'd pay attention to how I use it, wouldn't you?)
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Thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, um, bird.

 ♥Jan. 20th, 2014 // 04:37 pm♥
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So, I'm trying out Thunderbird. Thus far, it seems to do everything I want, and nothing I don't want, other than frequently SPODing as it tries to connect to gmail over a dodgy internet connection, so basically the same as with Mail. Sigh. It also seems to be less good than Mail was about telling me when there's unread mail in a folder: Mail did at least always tell me that it was there, even if I think had to wait half an hour to read it. I'm being charitable and hoping that this is just because it's still working on getting all the messages downloaded and indexed, and that Things Will Be Better when that's all done.

Other than that, I seem to have done very little today. I did try to take a picture, when out with the pooch, demonstrating how difficult it's now getting on some of the less-used paths to avoid walking on the bulb shoots that are popping up, but I fear it's not the sort of shot that an iPhone camera can do justice to.

Is anyone good at prints? I don't think that this can be bunny, because the backs would be larger than the fronts, but I don't know!
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Oopsies

 ♥Jan. 18th, 2014 // 08:01 pm♥
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Since the end of the seasons of stupidly cheap use-it-today roadside fruit and of pick-them-up-by-the-bag-full apples on the common, I've been drinking far too much elderflower cordial, so I thought I should get back into making ginger cordial to drink instead.

I was a bit short on bottles, as Mrs Next Door has a couple of them, but no problem, I still had enough. Then I realised that I couldn't do my usual trick of popping them in the simmering oven while the juice steamed on the electric hob, because the cordial would be in there. So, because I am an idiot, I popped them in the hot oven for fifteen minutes. And then I took them out and put them on the granite worktop. And then they cracked. There then followed a bit of a scrounge through the box of bottles until I found enough to be going on with:



I may actually have to buy some, as two of the ones that went in the bin are my nice clear glass ones, and they are very useful.

Later, Mike was cooking dinner, and I was supervising, when the highly alert and sensible dog made us aware of a problem smoke alarm went off: the living room and hall were fully of smoke (the dog was asleep on the living room rug, oblivious). We dashed in to see what the problem was with the stove, and then realised that the problem was that a piece of wood on top of the stove had caught light. (We put slightly damp wood on the top to dry out before it goes into the fire. We may have to stop doing this.) Still, Jodie thought it was marvellous, as we then opened the french windows and she could go and run around the garden chasing bunnies while still being able to come back and check that we hadn't run away and left her.

A few days ago, I upgraded to Mavericks in the hope that it would make my email be a bit less crap. It hasn't. I think that the problem is a combination of an enormous gmail archive and a crappy internet connection: what seems to happen is that Mail downloads the email quite happily, and puts a little unread count next to the appropriate folder, and then when I click on the folder to see the new message it re-syncs the contents of the entire folder and then the message in question. Sometimes this happens pretty much instantly, sometimes it takes ten minutes to load the contents and then, when I select a given message, another ten minutes to open it. (If I turn my wifi off, I can quite happily read all of my previously downloaded emails, instantly. It just means I can't get any new ones....) The annoyance factor is compounded by a relatively recent change to Mail's behaviour on moving a message to trash: it used to just shift focus to the next one on the list, but now it moves towards the nearest unread one. I mark emails as unread in my in box when I need to do something with them, so it's bloody annoying to a) have it do in the wrong direction and b) then have to manually mark the earlier message as unread and c) to then have to do the same think thirty seconds later when it does it again. I think I'm at the point of being prepared to try a different mail client, does anyone have any suggestions?
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Soggy

 ♥Nov. 1st, 2013 // 07:15 am♥
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Today has mostly been soggy. Every time Jodie was on the verge of being dry, we took her back outside again.... She seems much perkier today, though, and was full of beans on her walk, so I suspect she'd just scoffed something the disagreed with her, or got a bit of a bug from one of the other dogs. Fingers remain slightly crossed.

Our veg box today included fractal cauliflower:

It's very pretty, so it's just a shame that neither of us is that keen on cauli....

Not that I can post this just now: our internet connection's gone down again. Ho hum.

Oh, and Is It Just Me or is the new version of the iPhone Reminder app (since iOS7) really horribly crap? Or is it just that no one else uses it, or does so with intermittent data? You can't go through the list and tick off more than one thing, because when you tick the first one it slowly and non-obviously syncs with The Cloud, then moves the ticked item to the top of the list, *then* registers the fraction-of-a-second-later second finger tap. So by the time it registers the second ticking off, the list has re-ordered and you've just marked something completely random as done. Magic. This is my current default excuse for not doing things. Which would be a funny if not for the fact that I'm fairly sure I have in fact not done things because of it.

This morning, I set myself a reminder to do thingie, with the default setting if 9am that day. When I went to tick it off, the 9am one was there but also a 6pm one, repeating fortnightly. My fortnightly reminder to put the bins out, on the other hand, had vanished. I may have to go back to the app I used before Reminders was put in.

And you (well, I) can't unlock the phone one handed with the new unlock screen. My thumb doesn't seem able to swipe far enough. Bah. Humbug.

Still, at least Mike fixed my phone, so it's no longer alarmingly covered in broken glass.

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