Posted by 7 on Jul 11, 2008 in Uncategorized
Hi there all!
Wow! I can’t believe it. My third post in 3 days. 
I’ve got to tell you though… I have a bit of a dilemma. You see, we booked these boat tickets a while back and I didn’t realise that one of my good friend’s weddings is on that day and it will be the whole day…
Let me tell you a bit about this boat party because I was really excited to go to it but of course the wedding does come first.
The boat party is being held by an organisation called Crisis. Crisis is a voluntary organisation which deals in helping the homeless around the country.
Here’s an excerpt from their website:
“Crisis is a national charity that fights homelessness and empowers people to fulfil their potential and transform their lives.
Crisis defines its wider constituency as single homeless people. The focus of our work is on hidden homeless people who may be living in hostels and bed and breakfasts, or sleeping on friends and family’s floors. Crisis estimates that there are 400,000 hidden homeless people – but most do not feature in government statistics.”
I found out about Crisis through my local community organisation Young Jains where we would attend Crisis Open Christmas; a week or so of volunteers helping out at large warehouses kitted out as homeless shelters where people could come and grab a bite to eat, get some sleep under shelter, brush up on computer skills, get their CV sorted, get checked by a dentist or doctor or optician, grab some new clothes, and much more.
My experience of a Crisis Open Christmas was very enlightening and it showed how much work people really put into helping their fellow human.
Now here’s the dilemma that I have. I know I’m going to miss out on this boat party, but I would not want the tickets to go to waste. I would rather pass them on to someone who would love to go to the event.
At the boat party there will be drinks, finger food, live music, a DJ and a great crowd.
You can read up more on it here: https://secure.crisis.org.uk/boat_trip/
I would highly recommend this event and checking out the page as it really looks amazing.
We had bought these tickets for around £15 so for anyone that is interested please drop me a comment and let me know how best we can pass these tickets across to you.
It will certainly be an amazing night out!!
Posted by 7 on Jul 10, 2008 in Uncategorized
Hey guys and girls!!
After months and months of wanting and longing I’ve finally done it… I finally got myself a laptop!
It’s really cool. A big 17″ screen, cool graphics card, Dolby Virtual Speakers, AMD Dual core processor… And much much more.
It came with Windows Vista and although I’ve heard some negatives about it, it’s quite nice to use. (Although at times can be a bit slow).
It’s great because now I can move around the house with it, connect to my computer upstairs with Remote Desktop Connection, and I can now be at Jilna’s place and not worry about doing my work because I can do it on my laptop. (This is great because I can now be with her and get my work done as well.)
I’ve found this very cool item on here as well which is “Windows Live Writer”. You can enter your login details into it and can blog straight from your desktop meaning you can create a post offline which looks like what it’s meant to when you upload it, and you can just upload it next time you are online.
There are a lot of features a click away as well. You can easily create tables, insert pictures, videos, tags, and hyperlinks. And you can access your dashboard and manage your comments.
Here is a picture of what it looks like. (A print screen taken from my computer right now.
If you can’t see the image clearly or because it is too small, then just drop me an email and I’ll be more than happy to send you across the larger image. Alternatively you can right click and do “Save As” to save it to your computer and then enlarge it manually.
If you have Windows Vista, and you’re an avid blogger, or even if you want to start blogging, I would highly recommend using this program. I’ve only been using it for a short while and I really want to study the in depth features of it so it’s a definite hit on my list.
In terms of creating a blog… More on that in the next post.
Posted by 7 on Jul 9, 2008 in Uncategorized
Wow! Doesn’t time fly? I was just looking at when I sent my last blog and it was all the way back in May!
Well I’ve definitely been busy with my work and family life.
Jilna and I have set a wedding date as well so there’s a lot of planning to do for that!
In between that there’s stuff to do in the house, socialising with friends, socialising with my family, socialising with Jilna’s family, attending weddings and events…. Soooo much!
But I wouldn’t change this life. It’s fun. it’s enjoyable. It’s me.
With all the events happening it’s difficult to organise when you’re doing what with whom. And if you have a partner it becomes really difficult to remember (especially if you have the memory of a fish like myself) what is happening when.
Here’s my quick and simple trick for partners with busy lives. Now listen carefully…
Google Calendars.
You can sign up for a free Google account and one of the features is the Google Calendar. You can share you can share your calendar with anyone else, like your partner, and they can share theirs with yours. It shows up in different colours so if you have multiple calendars for different people (not different partners) then it’s easier to differentiate between the two.
If you are sharing with a friend, and you want to keep things private, then you can do with the “Private” function on the appointments.
Amongst other features is the shared documents which let’s you share documents across with friends or work colleagues.
The best thing is that you can access Google Mail from anywhere across the world very easily. So you don’t have to always carry your personal laptop about.
Check out http://www.google.com for more information or just drop me a line if you want.
