At last!

I tried calling the N800 from Sightspeed on the PC and I actually managed to get all four windows working properly for the first time! The N800's video quality as seen at the PC is terrible, but the PC's video window on the N800 is very smooth.. this was after trying Sightspeed on the Tiger partition MB1. Little Snitch kept popping up asking for low level OKs, such that it timed out once before I could sort it all out :(

So theoretically one could use the N800 to talk to some Sightspeed users, but the quality makes it not worth it...
 

Another aura

6 pm

I had just finished listening to half a dozen  podcasts leaning back in the armchair , turned on the lamp and started to read the article by Larry Elliot of the Guardian "Crude awakening for capitalism", when I noticed the words were unfocused.. yes, another aura! and so soon after the last.

Possible triggers: my neck could have become graunchy from the listening position I had adopted. This ties in with a recent aura where I also noticed a graunchy neck afterwards. Slightly less likely, I had just pigged 3 chocolate liqueurs, leftovers from Christmas :)

Enormous snowflakes

They reminded me of my childhood in England. Huge flakes that would splat onto the windows, where one could see their fantastic shapes. A first introduction to beauty perhaps..

Under the weather

The day started with another Aura, lasting 25 minutes this time. As usual this rather knocks the stuffing out of me.. I have managed to suck around downstairs prior to changing the bedclothes, but all I really want to do is lie down on the sofa. I'll try reading another chapter of 'musicophilia' by Oliver Sacks. He usually manages to grab my attention :)

Ref Christopher Hitchin's conclusion

"The ancient Greek philosopher, Socrates, taught his students that the pursuit of truth can only begin once they start to question and analyze every belief they ever held dear," said Dr. Pastore. "If a certain belief passes the test of evidence, deduction and logic, it should be kept. "If it doesn't, the belief should be discarded.

"The ruling elite have always tried to mislead the thinking of the masses. Socrates was tried for subversion, corrupting the youth and eventually forced to take his own life by drinking poison. As history tells us, it's never easy to be an independent thinker."

Tuesday 1 pm

What a beautiful day! Temperature around 6C. Went for a walk around the area to get some exercise, and can feel that either the recent lack of walking exercise or taking full selo-zoks recently does affect my calf muscles, as they were more painful today.

Have just finished reading The Dimbleby lecture by Craig Venter - A DNA driven world. He's quite a personality.. bit of a megalomaniac apparently, but his lecture was excellent.

"...In order to survive, we need a scientifically literate  society willing and able to embrace change - because our ability to provide life's essentials of food, water, shelter and energy for an expanding human population will require major advances in science and technology. ..."

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Looking at Flock

One of the buttons at top left triggers this 'Blog Post'.. we'll see where it leads

Blogged with Flock

Sunday afternoon

2.30 pm and its a beautiful day! None of yesterday's health worries with sunshine like this.. Actually I feel pretty good, but am not chancing the outdoors just yet.

Listened to a few chapters of Christopher Hitchin's audio book - he is not so easy to follow though, speaking fast and with varying intensity. However, its worth it.

Little of interest on Google Reader so I took the opportunity to clean up the HD1 downloads area. This became a mess  after Speed Download was installed. SD had its own ideas about splitting downloads into various subfolders, and I ended up with 3 download folders (so far). Today I moved all dls to My Book4 and deleted the HD1 copies. Then enabled Spotlight to search & find the latter, though its probably waiting for some idle time before doing so. Thats it for now