mister bijou: September 2010

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Wendy Bucklew: Buckets of Rain

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

Sony Records recently went through youtube with a fine tooth comb. Gone are clips by Bob Dylan. Still, the song and danceman still has a presence.

From Dylan's 1975 album Blood on the Tracks . . .

Friday, September 24, 2010

broken dreams

A gnashing of teeth and rending of garments has broken out in a corner of a little island in the South China Sea.

Why so?

Mister B is no longer able to send email attachments out.

Nor upload photos to the blog.

No idea why.

Tried all the usual: checked all the cables, checked all the settings. Googled to find out what the error message means.

Finally spoke to one of Netvigator's tech support. We spent an hour going this way and that. He was really good, knew his stuff. Yes, I'd even already tried doing a System Restore from a week ago.

So in the end he suggested what I dreaded: reinstall Vista.

Oh, that I might. Reinstall Vista, that is.

Why so?

A good friend went to Wanchai Computer Centre 12 months ago and got me this laptop. Everything has been tickety-boo until now. Now, I discover that I can't find the receipt (and hence the name of the shop).

This, it turns out, is important. I need to change the Vista install cd, the one I have is in Chinese and I can't read Chinese (my bad) so I won't be able to follow the instructions..

So I am stuck for the moment.

Mightily stuck.

grhhh!

Monday, September 20, 2010

Eye | Land | View

Tropical Storm Fanapi made landfall a few hours ago well to the east of a little island in the South China Sea.

According to Hong Kong Observatory, Fanapi is about 180km north-northeast of here and is forecast to move west or west-southwest at about 20km/hr across Guangdong province.

There was some really, really heavy rain around six pm since when it has just been continual but lighter rain.

So it goes.