Suddenly I have a notice telling me that my Dropbox is linked to too many accounts. No information about what the limit is, no advanced warning of the change. I searched and found the limit on another site, because It's hard to find on Dropbox.
Until this moment, I had been really happy with Dropbox, and have my five devices working well. Now, I assume, if two unlink for some reason, I will not be able to get them back in. The limit is 3, apparently.
So be it. I assume that Dropbox will now go the same way as Evernote, who put similar restrictions in place. I don't use Evernote any more and have copied all the data to other places, some to Dropbox! So, now I'm looking for an alternative. I need something that can share between Windows (2 devices), Android (2 devices) and Linux - Ubuntu (1 device). They seem hard to find.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
American Christmas: Christmas eve
Another early start - we were woken before 6 AM by noises outside, it sounded like heavy rain. After a while, when I am properly awake I decide to call the credit card company. Robert suggested Skype. Great idea, I ran the sound test, but my microphone is not working. It has the same problem as my Windows 7 laptop at home - two microphones on one device and neither working. I tried deleting the device and restarting, but the problem is not cured. Back to the phone. I call and get an answer straight away and after the inevitable security grilling I am told he has no idea why the transaction was declined, and that it will not happen again. I struggle to believe him. The call costs £6, mainly because it was answered straight away.
As we eat breakfast there is just the sound of rain and the occasional blast from the heating. It is quite dull, an odd atmosphere.
At last we begin our journey to see Roberts family in Douglasville. It is a 90 minute drive away. On the way we see a wrecked Christmas in the shape of a badly damaged car on the median (central reservation). There are no barriers on the interstate between the carriageway and the median. The car is being recovered, but there is next to no delay to the traffic flow. Happily we are not involved in any incident and reached Robert's mother's house safely. After a greeting and a few minutes chat we moved on to his brothers house for lunch. We had Brunswick stew and barbecue - a tradition, and very pleasant.
In the afternoon we went to the mall to look for the shoes that Mike wanted us to get for him. It was busy, but nowhere near as crowded as it would be at Lakeside. Here I was asked to talk more because they love the accent, that was the first time it had happened to me, and would happen another twice during the day. It was also the first time I have been asked for ID while making a purchase. At least the card is working. There is a roundabout in the mall - the first I have seen - what confusion is causes, despite the signs ( OK, perhaps just 'yield' is not enough). Roundabouts are everywhere in the UK, and definitely improve traffic flow.
Then off to Lithia Springs Baptist church for the candle lit service. Its a long time since I've taken communion outside my CofE tradition, this service was very different. As with all non-liturgical service there are elements that are missing or hard to locate. Here I missed the confession / absolution, but I won't let that ruin the experience. The choir sang some of the songs, and the congregation sang some songs with them. The strange and uncomfortable thing for me was the applause at the end of the choir items. We occasionally get applause at Christ Church when the children have done something - usually as a 'volunteer', and I'm not really comfortable with that, but they are children and it is good to make them feel that extra bit special. As adults we should know that all we do in church (and outside, but that's a different debate) is done to glorify God. We should not be seeking the approval of people, but of God (Gal 1:10), so by extension we should not be giving it. The sermon was good, the opportunity to speak to those who attend rarely was well taken and the message about who Jesus is and what he has done (died for our sins) clearly presented. Communion was a very different experience. Small pieces of purpose baked bread were distributes among the congregation, and eaten at the same time by all. Then small cups of wine were distributed and drunk at the same time by all. The words that Jesus used were repeated, but there was no attempt to bless the bread. This is a good thing, as it reminds us only of the act and is therefore a purer act of remembrance. What is lost is the sense that we are all eating from the same loaf. We sang 'Away in a Manger' to a tune I didn't know.
After the service we went to Waffle House with Robert's friends and their children. Waffle house is always open. It is a diner - so you eat at tables or the bar. We had to wait for adjacent tables to become clear. The food is basic, but satisfying. We ordered a big plate to share - we tried hash browns, which are very different for the English version, less formed and stuck together, and grits. Grits has a strange feel in the mouth - hence the name, and a bland taste. In that respect it is like porridge, and like porridge it is normally eaten with something added. Jo didn't like it, but I did.
Then there was a long foggy drive back to Auburn.
Things I like about America - in no particular order
Police and recovery teams don't block the road.
Shops don't close at midday on Christmas eve.
Large churches, well attended
Being English here
Things I don't like about America - in no particular order
National Rifle Association
Drivers who don't understand roundabouts
As we eat breakfast there is just the sound of rain and the occasional blast from the heating. It is quite dull, an odd atmosphere.
At last we begin our journey to see Roberts family in Douglasville. It is a 90 minute drive away. On the way we see a wrecked Christmas in the shape of a badly damaged car on the median (central reservation). There are no barriers on the interstate between the carriageway and the median. The car is being recovered, but there is next to no delay to the traffic flow. Happily we are not involved in any incident and reached Robert's mother's house safely. After a greeting and a few minutes chat we moved on to his brothers house for lunch. We had Brunswick stew and barbecue - a tradition, and very pleasant.
In the afternoon we went to the mall to look for the shoes that Mike wanted us to get for him. It was busy, but nowhere near as crowded as it would be at Lakeside. Here I was asked to talk more because they love the accent, that was the first time it had happened to me, and would happen another twice during the day. It was also the first time I have been asked for ID while making a purchase. At least the card is working. There is a roundabout in the mall - the first I have seen - what confusion is causes, despite the signs ( OK, perhaps just 'yield' is not enough). Roundabouts are everywhere in the UK, and definitely improve traffic flow.
Then off to Lithia Springs Baptist church for the candle lit service. Its a long time since I've taken communion outside my CofE tradition, this service was very different. As with all non-liturgical service there are elements that are missing or hard to locate. Here I missed the confession / absolution, but I won't let that ruin the experience. The choir sang some of the songs, and the congregation sang some songs with them. The strange and uncomfortable thing for me was the applause at the end of the choir items. We occasionally get applause at Christ Church when the children have done something - usually as a 'volunteer', and I'm not really comfortable with that, but they are children and it is good to make them feel that extra bit special. As adults we should know that all we do in church (and outside, but that's a different debate) is done to glorify God. We should not be seeking the approval of people, but of God (Gal 1:10), so by extension we should not be giving it. The sermon was good, the opportunity to speak to those who attend rarely was well taken and the message about who Jesus is and what he has done (died for our sins) clearly presented. Communion was a very different experience. Small pieces of purpose baked bread were distributes among the congregation, and eaten at the same time by all. Then small cups of wine were distributed and drunk at the same time by all. The words that Jesus used were repeated, but there was no attempt to bless the bread. This is a good thing, as it reminds us only of the act and is therefore a purer act of remembrance. What is lost is the sense that we are all eating from the same loaf. We sang 'Away in a Manger' to a tune I didn't know.
After the service we went to Waffle House with Robert's friends and their children. Waffle house is always open. It is a diner - so you eat at tables or the bar. We had to wait for adjacent tables to become clear. The food is basic, but satisfying. We ordered a big plate to share - we tried hash browns, which are very different for the English version, less formed and stuck together, and grits. Grits has a strange feel in the mouth - hence the name, and a bland taste. In that respect it is like porridge, and like porridge it is normally eaten with something added. Jo didn't like it, but I did.
Then there was a long foggy drive back to Auburn.
Things I like about America - in no particular order
Police and recovery teams don't block the road.
Shops don't close at midday on Christmas eve.
Large churches, well attended
Being English here
Things I don't like about America - in no particular order
National Rifle Association
Drivers who don't understand roundabouts
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Grave Hunting, Jam and Windows 7
The nice thing about graves is they move very slowly, unfortunately it is not a slowly as you might hope.
There are other things that make it difficult to have any idea who the stone relates to. Lichen can obliterate the writing very quickly (see album), sometimes the stone flakes and the top layer is missing. In the case of Mountnessing, the church was closed for a while, when it was re-opened the grave yard was tidied up, and many of the broken and damaged stones lost.
We arrived at Buttsbury just as Evensong began, there the church yard is also missing stones, but we don't know why.
We did not find any of the names we were looking for - this time on Jo's side of the family.
That was Sunday afternoon, a lovely day for wandering in the countryside, and the churches provided some lovely views, if not the right grave stones.
Jam is not like stone, but I promised here, that I would talk about the jam. At the alternative Christmas Fayre we bought a pot of Elderberry Jelly from the Mum and Me Jam Company. It's been in the cupboard a while, as is the way with jam in our house. Jelly, well yes, I suppose, but the jelly has the consistency of the jelly you have at children's parties. It is quite difficult to spread, however rather that than the commercial version of some "jellies", which turn to liquid at the first slice. The taste is very good and that's what really counts.
Now that the Projection project is finished at Church, I can get on with my own migration to Windows 7. Migration is slow, but is happening - you can see the updates here.
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We arrived at Buttsbury just as Evensong began, there the church yard is also missing stones, but we don't know why.
We did not find any of the names we were looking for - this time on Jo's side of the family.
That was Sunday afternoon, a lovely day for wandering in the countryside, and the churches provided some lovely views, if not the right grave stones.
Jam is not like stone, but I promised here, that I would talk about the jam. At the alternative Christmas Fayre we bought a pot of Elderberry Jelly from the Mum and Me Jam Company. It's been in the cupboard a while, as is the way with jam in our house. Jelly, well yes, I suppose, but the jelly has the consistency of the jelly you have at children's parties. It is quite difficult to spread, however rather that than the commercial version of some "jellies", which turn to liquid at the first slice. The taste is very good and that's what really counts.
Now that the Projection project is finished at Church, I can get on with my own migration to Windows 7. Migration is slow, but is happening - you can see the updates here.
Monday, April 05, 2010
Holiday Monday & "Are Christians being persecuted?"
Such is the once Christian nature of our country that we have a Public Holiday after Easter Sunday, in recognition of the resurrection. Yesterday was Easter Sunday. We had the usual greeting at church:
Christ is risen!
He is risen indeed Alleluia
Christ is Risen!
He is risen indeed Alleluia
Christ is Risen!
He is risen indeed. Alleluia!
So the service got going.
I have not been 100% healthy over this holiday. I've had some sort of virus. So Easter has passed be by a bit. I missed the Agape meal at church on Thursday, the walk of witness on Friday, and would have missed the sunrise service on Sunday, had I identified one to attend. It has been different. Even the Easter Day service seemed different from my less than 100% perspective. Yes, I've recovered, but I'm still tired. I have though had some really good appreciative feed back from the Good Friday service. The services I lead often seem to go better when I'm not 100% - God works through me better when I'm less able to get in the way?
Warner spoke on the resurrection, and showed the clip from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe where the stone table breaks and Aslan appears with the Sun behind him. He spoke about our faith and even our dead faith being resurrected by God. One of the high lights of the service was the music. The younger, but no longer young (sorry, guys and girls!) people did a marvellous job and provided some very uplifting music. I must especially mention Mandy, whose singing and worship was tremendous.
Today was also the day we started to use the new laptop (with Windows 7) and Easislides. I had spent a long time evaluating various pieces of Freeware. Jo and I had spent a long time the previous week getting the songs into the Easislides system. It offers a range of imports, but our old system (SongPro3) doesn't export and the Songs of Fellowship CD words for books 1-3 are very poorly formatted. We arrived at 9am to set up the new system and to transfer the notices in to Impress. By 9:55 we were ready to go. Just in time. Easislides has a good user interface, but when I was asked to take over briefly - I got it wrong! Overall though it was a success. Now I just have to train the other operators, and make sure that the song counts work for the end of year copyright reporting.
Then home to wait for Karen, and watch the Malaysian GP.
One piece of Easter Entertainment - Jonathan Creek - The Judas Tree - didn't disappoint. I wasn't expecting anything else and was just about to go to bed when I saw "Are Christians being persecuted?". It was presented by Nicky Campbell - so I wasn't expecting good things. The last couple of things I've seen him in have missed the real issues and spent too long on people experiences. So I was pleasantly surprised. Various religious leaders were interviewed and allowed to say what they needed to say. We (the program stated as fact) live in a Liberal Democracy. The danger for the Liberal democracy is that when it has no belief it will find something - almost anything - to believe in. It was also recognised that secular humanism is as much a religion as Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and the rest. There was a reasonable discussion on the difficulties involved in granting 'rights' to people that will inevitably conflict. Liberty, perhaps had a greater share of airtime than you might expect given the conclusion of the program. Some of the 'famous' recent cases of discrimination were also covered. Most notably the case of a Check In desk woman sacked for wearing a cross. There was also coverage of the Human Rights bill, which consolidates the various anti-discrimination legislation (equal pay, gender discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination). The danger with this is that in reality it behaves like a piece of Orwelian 'thought' legislation.
The program's conclusion:
No - Christians are not being tortured and murdered like they are in many countries,
and
Yes - In a Liberal democracy (so by our standards) the deliberate shunning of one religion feels like persecution.
Christ is risen!
He is risen indeed Alleluia
Christ is Risen!
He is risen indeed Alleluia
Christ is Risen!
He is risen indeed. Alleluia!
So the service got going.
I have not been 100% healthy over this holiday. I've had some sort of virus. So Easter has passed be by a bit. I missed the Agape meal at church on Thursday, the walk of witness on Friday, and would have missed the sunrise service on Sunday, had I identified one to attend. It has been different. Even the Easter Day service seemed different from my less than 100% perspective. Yes, I've recovered, but I'm still tired. I have though had some really good appreciative feed back from the Good Friday service. The services I lead often seem to go better when I'm not 100% - God works through me better when I'm less able to get in the way?
Warner spoke on the resurrection, and showed the clip from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe where the stone table breaks and Aslan appears with the Sun behind him. He spoke about our faith and even our dead faith being resurrected by God. One of the high lights of the service was the music. The younger, but no longer young (sorry, guys and girls!) people did a marvellous job and provided some very uplifting music. I must especially mention Mandy, whose singing and worship was tremendous.
Today was also the day we started to use the new laptop (with Windows 7) and Easislides. I had spent a long time evaluating various pieces of Freeware. Jo and I had spent a long time the previous week getting the songs into the Easislides system. It offers a range of imports, but our old system (SongPro3) doesn't export and the Songs of Fellowship CD words for books 1-3 are very poorly formatted. We arrived at 9am to set up the new system and to transfer the notices in to Impress. By 9:55 we were ready to go. Just in time. Easislides has a good user interface, but when I was asked to take over briefly - I got it wrong! Overall though it was a success. Now I just have to train the other operators, and make sure that the song counts work for the end of year copyright reporting.
Then home to wait for Karen, and watch the Malaysian GP.
One piece of Easter Entertainment - Jonathan Creek - The Judas Tree - didn't disappoint. I wasn't expecting anything else and was just about to go to bed when I saw "Are Christians being persecuted?". It was presented by Nicky Campbell - so I wasn't expecting good things. The last couple of things I've seen him in have missed the real issues and spent too long on people experiences. So I was pleasantly surprised. Various religious leaders were interviewed and allowed to say what they needed to say. We (the program stated as fact) live in a Liberal Democracy. The danger for the Liberal democracy is that when it has no belief it will find something - almost anything - to believe in. It was also recognised that secular humanism is as much a religion as Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and the rest. There was a reasonable discussion on the difficulties involved in granting 'rights' to people that will inevitably conflict. Liberty, perhaps had a greater share of airtime than you might expect given the conclusion of the program. Some of the 'famous' recent cases of discrimination were also covered. Most notably the case of a Check In desk woman sacked for wearing a cross. There was also coverage of the Human Rights bill, which consolidates the various anti-discrimination legislation (equal pay, gender discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination). The danger with this is that in reality it behaves like a piece of Orwelian 'thought' legislation.
The program's conclusion:
No - Christians are not being tortured and murdered like they are in many countries,
and
Yes - In a Liberal democracy (so by our standards) the deliberate shunning of one religion feels like persecution.
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Windows 7 - first brief look
On a pre-installed machine, but more of that later. So here are my first impressions. They can be summed up with the phrase "What a mess".
Now I know a lot of this stuff can be fixed, but it shouldn't need to be.
1) Translucent title bars are still in place. These are probably the daftest idea that Microsoft has ever had.
2) Shutdown, if you click it installs the updates - 15 in my case. Microsoft please note - I just want to go home, not wait for all these updates to install.
3) UAC messages are still apparent. I have only logged on and completed set up, and I've still had to confirm that I want to!
4) Coming out of Standby the screen doesn't show the red power off button until you click 'Switch User'. Then the same screen is displayed with it, but this time the option to install updates must be selected!!
5) I selected connect on the wireless network I wanted to connect to. It is WEP protected, so I expected a prompt for a key. Instead the system reported that there was a problem. I'm new to this O/S so took the decision to diagnose the problem. Lots of scanning and repairs later it still hadn't asked me for the key. In fact to put the key in I have to go into the control panel and navigate the unnecessary hierarchy of bits and bobs before I can enter the key. I typed it wrong the first time, but still no message saying, for example "access denied". Why ever not? They're fond enough of it elsewhere.
6) Start-up time is supposed to be improved - it isn't. I'm going to race it against my old Vista system to see who wins. Of my current machines the 4 year old XP is the fastest to a usable state (logged in).
My conclusion so far - this is Vista version 1.5. The rest is unjustified hype!
Now I know a lot of this stuff can be fixed, but it shouldn't need to be.
1) Translucent title bars are still in place. These are probably the daftest idea that Microsoft has ever had.
2) Shutdown, if you click it installs the updates - 15 in my case. Microsoft please note - I just want to go home, not wait for all these updates to install.
3) UAC messages are still apparent. I have only logged on and completed set up, and I've still had to confirm that I want to!
4) Coming out of Standby the screen doesn't show the red power off button until you click 'Switch User'. Then the same screen is displayed with it, but this time the option to install updates must be selected!!
5) I selected connect on the wireless network I wanted to connect to. It is WEP protected, so I expected a prompt for a key. Instead the system reported that there was a problem. I'm new to this O/S so took the decision to diagnose the problem. Lots of scanning and repairs later it still hadn't asked me for the key. In fact to put the key in I have to go into the control panel and navigate the unnecessary hierarchy of bits and bobs before I can enter the key. I typed it wrong the first time, but still no message saying, for example "access denied". Why ever not? They're fond enough of it elsewhere.
6) Start-up time is supposed to be improved - it isn't. I'm going to race it against my old Vista system to see who wins. Of my current machines the 4 year old XP is the fastest to a usable state (logged in).
My conclusion so far - this is Vista version 1.5. The rest is unjustified hype!
Monday, August 31, 2009
Windows Vista SP2
Its nearly time for Windows 7. I have been reading some ods and bits - the person who invented the Office 2007 'ribbon' is in charge of the user interface (UI) - scary!
I can tell its nearly time for Windwos 7 because today I was offered Vista SP2, and somewhat apprehensively let it install. As with all windows installations it takes a long time and requires a reboot. Apart from that gripe, it all went smoothly. My CD still works too, so something is going right. My machine is not noticable slower (or faster).
I can tell its nearly time for Windwos 7 because today I was offered Vista SP2, and somewhat apprehensively let it install. As with all windows installations it takes a long time and requires a reboot. Apart from that gripe, it all went smoothly. My CD still works too, so something is going right. My machine is not noticable slower (or faster).
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