Dec 27 2007
Illness, computers and music
I’ve not updated in a few days because I can’t get my laptop to connect to the wireless setup here at Helen’s parents’ house. I know what the password is, but there seems to be some painful problem with DHCP and Network Manager, where the latter ignores the former. Either way, I haven’t been able to work around the problem so I’m using Helen’s laptop instead.
I am still full of the cold. Every day when I wake up I have to empty my head of snot anew. I bet you’re happy I told you that.
And while I’m on the topic of computing complaints, I’m annoyed at ISPs for obfuscating the settings they require to get email working. They seem to think a series of screenshots showing the configuration procedure on a 7-year-old version of Outlook Express would be useful. It is not. Even if they do provide a “at a glance” page of login requirements, they always euphemise the actual requirements, so that none of the settings match up with the hundreds of options in your mail client.
At the moment I’m listening to Alison Krauss and Robert Plant covering Tom Waits’ Trampled Rose. Very nice album.