I got a certificate last week....

welllll - technically Jason did, but he only got it because of me!

Every week a child in each class from KG1 to year 6 gets a certificate and they get to go on stage and their name gets mentioned in the newsletter and it's a HUGE thing in their lives. Well - it was Jason's turn this week and he got a certificate for "always bringing food for Lucky our school pet rabbit".

This rabbit and I don't get on. At ALL! I always thought rabbits were cute, fluffy and generally very mild mannered animals - hence most kids have a rabbit as a pet at some stage of their life. Hah - I was sooooooo wrong! Lucky has come to our house twice for the holidays now and I have to say....I'm QUITE terrified of her!!!!

This rabbit GROWLS!!!! And POUNCES!!!! And has SHARP CLAWS!!!! I swear - I'm sure she is Wallace and Grommit's Were-rabbit!!!! The first time she came to stay I put my hand in her enclosure to stroke her and generally be nice to her and that was she did! I even tore my trousers I got such a fright!!!

The next time she came to stay (for the summer holidays) she actually let me pick her up to transfer her from the transporter (aka a cardboard box) to her enclosure so while I had hold of her I gave her a little cuddle and stroke and let Jason stroke her. How did she repay me? She poo'ed on me!!!!!!!!! Whoever thought rabbits have little balls of poo were very very wrong....it was like tar!!! Black and sticky and smelly!!!!

So why do I keep sending food for her? Because Jason LOVES going to feed her with his teacher every morning before school starts....

BIG NEWS!!!

I accidentally discovered today how to burn a cd using ITunes!!!

You have to have a blank CD in your writer. Don't I feel like a bit of a twit :-)

It was One Web Day last week....

...the 22nd of September to be precise. Basically - it's a celebration of the internet and users of the WWW are encouraged to show how the internet affects their lives.

Following is an excerpt from an article published in Yes Magazine : -

On September 22, people worldwide participated in the fourth annual celebration of OneWebDay 2009. Through education and activism, a globally distributed network of activists, educators, entrepreneurs, and creatives coordinated their efforts to deliver a simple message: Everyone, regardless of their socioeconomic status or where they live, should have access to fast, affordable Internet service and to the skills and tools they need to empower their communities and improve their lives through 21st century communications.

Source : - Yes Magazine

Two questions....

1. Worldwide huh? The only reason I know about it is because I was on the Wikipedia page and they had a link to it. I wonder how many other Africans knew about it?
2. Sure!!! The Internet is going to help deliver food to the children that have been displaced by the war in Somalia. Just so long as they have access to the WWW they'll be ok?

How naive are the people that write these things????!!!! Do they know that there's a whole world out there with problems other than, which service provider to use? SURELY they've seen pictures of starving children and their mothers that have to watch as their children slip away into unconciousness?

Yes, access to the WWW IS important and yes, it has made a HUUUUGE change to the way the world "works" but has it really made the world a smaller place?

Seems to me that it's just made the divide between first and third world even bigger.

15 years later....

...I have FINALLY figured out predictive texting on mobile phones!!

Many, many people have tried to show me how it works but I've never figured it out until today over coffee at school. (Yes - the chairman of the board puts on coffee for the parents every morning after drop off...FREE!)

Someone was trying to explain how Suduko works and Ninna and I were giggling because we have no clue (and still don't) how to play it. Then we got onto Rubik's cubes...I used to peel the stickers off and restick them. She used to actually take the whole thing apart! :-)

Then I admitted that I can't use predictive text on my phone! Well - that was embarassing!!! I've had a phone with a "qwerty" keyboard for ages so I never really needed to know how to. Thats my excuse anyway!!

All I needed was someone to tell me that you only press the key once even though the letter you actually want it the third letter on the key!! Obviously Ninna had the same problem learning as I did because it took all of a minute to show me!!

So now I can write essays instead of curt missives when I text....yippeee!!

I've gone organic...

....however I'm going to admit that I haven't gone organic because of the whole "free of synthetic inputs" etc.

I've discovered they D E L I V E R your fruit, veg, honey, coffee and various herbs!!!!

Initially I was a bit skeptical and had fears of these veggies arriving on my doorstep looking like they hadn't seen soil never mind chemicals!!! Previously I bought my fruit and veg at Shoprite and had to make a dash there after fetching Jason from school so I could get there just as their veggie delivery arrived. If I got their any other day they never seemed to have lettuce / banana's etc! Occasionally I would ask Rose to go to her local market for me and get some mangoes on her way to work but on the whole fruit and veg buying was always a bit of a hit and miss.

Welllll - those days are over!! For a SERIOUSLY nominal fee (2500/=) Nogamu deliver the freshest vegetables right to my doorstep. And - they're organic so I know my kids won't grow two heads :-)

How cool is that?

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Apple Inc and Me...

I dunno if I just have a mental block when it comes to all things Apple or if Apple are just out to befuddle me.

I like to think of myself as an above average electronics user. I'm not the type that is too scared to do anything out of the ordinary on my laptop / desktop and am inquisitive when it comes to new software. Apple Mac's on the other hand, give the flipping heebies jeebies!!! I can never find what I'm supposed to be looking for and it just seems so arse about face!!

Given my history with Apple Inc. I've delayed getting an I-pod but after borrowing somebody's I realised that actually, they're quite user friendly!!! *Shock horror!!*. So ok, I acquire an Ipod and now I want to put some music on it....HAH!!! I knew it wouldn't be easy!!! First issue....you have to freaking download I-Tunes (88.7mb's of it!!!) which in a first world country with bandwidth that is FASTER than a homing pigeon is no problem. However if you live in Uganda and are reliant on UTL wellllllll - expect it to take a couple of days!!

So eventually after it failing a few times and having to restart it I finally got it downloaded and installed. Yipppeeeee!!! Now all I have to do is copy some of my music onto the Ipod and we're A for away. Or not as the case may be. Even the I-tunes software is obtuse!!!! What is it with Apple??? Do they feel the need to develop software that challenges the ordinary user?

Here's an example...I haven't invested in an I-trip yet. Yes - I now understand how important it is and I'm hoping that Father and Mary Christmas are reading this. So anyway....The radio in my car plays MP3's so I reckon what I'll do is make a few CD's of the music on my Ipod so I can listen to it in the car. Surprise!!!! I couldn't figure out how to do it!!! I went into the help function and typed in "cd burn" and it came up with the exact thing I was looking for and gave detailed instructions on how to do it. The first step is to locate the "burn" icon in the corner of your screen. Ok - maybe my screen is different but I'm not seeing it!!!! Maybe the people that write the help screens should do screen shots with arrows?? If anyone knows how to do it....please send pictures with arrows!??

This one takes the cake though....I'm running out of disk space on my laptop so I decided to do a big tidy and unistall programmes that I don't use anymore or ones that I have never used. Now I have LOADS of diskspace but..........my Itunes won't open because I uninstalled a program called "bonjour" which is used by Itunes to share music, play music through Airtunes speakers etc. I mean really now...there was no indication that it was in use, or ever had been and who names a programme "Bonjour"!!!

So now I have to reinstall I-Tunes. Oh what fun! At least I was wise enough to save the install files so I don't have to download it again :-)