Archives for August, 2006

Macbook

  • Posted by Simone
  • August 19, 2006

Today I bought my first computer….. Ok, so Pascal and I have bought computers together before, but I wasn’t really involved. And he was involved in this purchase, and it’s his too, but it still feels like it’s mine, and it will primarily be used by me!
It’s an Apple Macbook, and it’s very pretty! It’s [...]

My computer/internet history

  • Posted by Simone
  • August 16, 2006

My family got it’s first computer in August 1995. All I remember is that is was a pentium something, it was bought in Bunbury, WA, and we played the golf game, Need for Speed, Patience, Jezzball and it had Encarta.

I think we got internet at home in about 1997 and I probably got Hotmail around [...]

Ecto

  • Posted by Simone
  • August 12, 2006

I downloaded the desktop blogging client Ecto today, for a three week trial.
I am already liking it more than the wordpress dashboard, but it isn’t perfect. Things that are bugging me are tags (I want tags, but not technorati ones), and that it only saves drafts locally. It also looks like I can’t edit the [...]