June 5, 2004
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Panaramic view of downtown Burford and surrounding countryside. Photo and enhancement by Chris Duffy
This picture was taken right before we got rained on for the umteenth time. You can see the storm coming in the distance. They never lasted long, but they sure came often enough. The entire town of Burford is on the slope. It starts at the top of the hill and goes till it hits the valley floor. I really liked how you could see the countryside from many vantage points.
On another note: I spent most of today burning CDs of my DATA files so I can put them on my new computer. Who would ever have guessed it would take all day to make 9 CDs, but then my old computer locked up several times and it took multiple tries to get it to reboot. No wonder I ordered the new one; this old one is a tired puppy.
Tomorrow . . . or perhaps Monday . . . I’ll be shutting down the old computer and loading the CD’s on the new computer. Then I’ll call Comcast and have them walk me through getting my cable modem to working and my email working on the new machine. I’m not sure how long it will take me to get up and running again, but hopefully it won’t take too long . . . I’m kind of addicted to Xanga.
Comments (3)
Sure hope that you won’t be our of commission for long……I’ll miss you!!
The new machine will probably pick up the settings as soon as you plug the cables in. Both my new ones did.
I think cd burners are set up to screw up a lot so you have to buy endless blanks. A better way is to have a virtual hard drive on the net. I am investigating that right now. I have it with Quicken for my business acct. files so they are accessible from anywhere, got it Thursday, so I don’t know much about it yet, but I think that is the way to go. I think its about $50 a year.
An interesting article in the paper today commented on how PC’s, as we load more stuff onto them, become slower over time. You might even need to slow down the double-click speed to keep from locking your PC up. Glad I have a Mac and don’t have to worry about that.
Mike