Are you there, David?

I know David reads my blog, and what a fountain of [computer] wisdom he is.  Perhaps Kelloggsville could also have some input as she is IT savvy.

So there I was at school on Tuesday using my laptop to order stuff from Ebay such as clarinet reeds, check my personal mail (in my own time) and so on.  OK, too, Wednesday morning.

Come the afternoon and I could surf the web but I could not access any sites which needed me to log on if they had https:// - This one was OK because it doesn't have the 's' although I do need to log in.

It meant all my school work was not going to Dropbox even though the proxy server settings are correct - Poo!  I had to take my laptop home, boot it up at home and let Dropbox update before turning on my desktop (I do not really like typing on a laptop) and for my AV to update it seems too.

Anyway, at school I did everything I could.  I cleaned the Temp files, checked Tools/Option/Advanced/SSL and Googled the issue.  The Head of IT was no help.  When I questioned if the fact the our network clock is 30 minutes slow he just said "It's quite hard to change, I must get onto Bloxx to see if they can do it.  Every school where I have worked has had a network clock which was wrong!"

So today, after more surfing, I have found this page with a Fix it which I have run.

Fingers crossed; I'll check it on Monday.

Any comments David?  Why would Windows 7 suddenly stop allowing me to log in?  I am the only Windows 7 user at school; all the rest are on Vista or XP.  I even upgraded to IE9 to see if it would help.  Some sites now run more slowly unless I click on Compatibility View.

I wrote this page on my laptop but, for some reason, there were saving problems; I took the precaution of saving the text locally and have now come onto my desktop to complete the job.

The only major change to my laptop in the last 2 weeks has been to install iTunes which I don't use, but I need it to get some music onto a netbook which didn't have a CD drive.

Don't you just hate computers?
 

Memories

Over at Kate Takes 5 there is a list of men she used to fancy (OK have a crush on).  It seems to be for ladies only so I will start one for blokes.

I have long had a soft spot for Sue Lawley although she had aged somewhat; but who am I to talk?

More years ago than I care to remember I instinctively knew that Elizabeth Montgomery was very attractive. I am devastated to discover that she died at the age of 62. Oh how I loved Bewitched.

A little later in my life I quite fancied Elaine Paige

A recent TV crush is for Amanda Tapping who plays Samantha Carter on Stargate SG1.

Stating the obvious

Pink chicken

Would you eat pink chicken? I mean roast chicken which looks pink?  We were presented with this at lunch today at school.  I queried it and was told by one cook that it had been probed and checked as being up to 86 degrees. (They cook chicken portions and then slice them.)

Now I accept that the meat was only pink on the outside but it just didn't look nice.

Later, the main chef told me that he had cooked the bacon for breakfast in trays and left the fat in the tray to flavour the chicken.  The bacon colour had impregnated the meat.

Our chef is very good, but this was a step too far for me.

Pink chicken - no thanks.