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When Sunday Became Monday
Something went wrong in my head today. I rose at 8.30am with my alarm, dressed and drove to town to pick up my mail. Arriving, I discovered that the post office was shut – and everything else too. I was confused, so I checked my watch. It said 9am. I then wandered over to the [...]
Buying a Siambretta – Paperwork and More Paperwork
Today has been the third consecutive day of paperwork for both Sergio and I. Things were looking really good today, and I was sure that we would get very close to finishing everything. As we paced our way down the narrow sidewalks, avoiding other rushing people and searching for the shadows in this blistering hot [...]
Buying a Siambretta – Yet Another Visit
Today was an easy day. All I had to do was visit the Escribana and pick up some paperwork. Most of it seems to be signed now, although I am not holding my breath. The paperwork was all very important stuff. Things that I need to be legal on the roads here in Argentina. I [...]
Buying a Siambretta – Owner Missing
It was 8am and I was waiting out on the sidewalk for my friend to turn up in his car. We had made this arrangement a couple of nights ago and as the time grew later I became concerned that he had forgotten our appointment. For me this was really important. I was about to [...]
Buying a Siambretta – Getting the Bike
It was in between meetings, we had just finished our staff meeting and now there was a worship time with the students, that I talked with Sergio about our need to head into town right now. We had arranged to meet the real owner today at 11 am yet still needed to check if the [...]
Buying a Siambretta – Er, Siambroken
Blind PurchaseProud as punch, I took off on my new motorbike. This was my very first ride on it. It did not occur to me until after the purchase that I had never actually looked at the bike or checked it out for any mechanical failures or problems that it may have. I had bought [...]
Buying a Siambretta
Well, it has been over two years now that I have been here in Argentina and only recently have I decided that it was time to look at getting some form of transport. There are many options here, from the latest models of bikes and cars to antiques that are still used everyday. I wanted [...]
Catching Up
Finally I have caught up. After two and a half weeks absent from my computer and a massive build up of emails, I can finally say that I am there. I have arrived. My inbox is empty. Yeeha. It is such a good feeling, and so many other things had been suffering until I had [...]
Future Shock – Depicting Life Today
I have been reading a classic novel called Future Shock by Alvin Toffler. Written back in 1970, it is amazing how much of it applies so well to today. This writer had an uncanny ability to see what was happening around him back then, and these days it is only more obvious. There are a [...]
Bagel Virus Finally Arrives
It was only this morning when I received a strange looking email. It had an attachment and looked everything like a virus. My immediate reaction to something like this is to simply delete it as I don’t consider messing with viruses a very wise thing to do… This time was a little different however, and [...]
Favourite Photos
With a bit of time to kill, I checked out some new websites on the Internet using a discovery tool that points you toward other sites that people recommend. Most of them were predictable, some pretty ordinary too, although all had something about them that held your interest for a moment at least. Then I [...]
Cataloguing Photos
With a bunch more photos in hand, and hundreds still stuck on my laptop that all need to be sorted, it was time to do something about it. I currently have thousands of photos sorted into folders according to the time and place they were taken. This works pretty good too, but when somebody comes [...]
BCC: Doing the Right Thing
There is something that really bugs me no matter how many times I see it happening. That is when my email address turns up in a group email addressed to dozens of people. What am I saying? That I don’t want to receive emails sent to groups? Not at all. I like to receive emails [...]
Why Computer Technicians Don’t Help
Entering “The Club” Having been a computer technician, I guess I should know better. There is a kind of a club that evolves around each group of technicians in a company. You do not ever just “enter” this club, but rather “earn” your way into it by demonstrating over a period of time (and problems) [...]
Once Bitten Twice Shy (Root Kit Virus)
I had hardly ever heard about these things in the days leading up to what happpen to me, but somehow I just happened to hear about Rootkits and special programs to detect them. It was a couple of weeks before that I had visited SysInternals.com to grab some of their utilities. One of their new [...]
This could have been embarrassing…
Chris and I went for a walk along the Costanera on our day off, and by chance happened to discover Jacar? beach just around the corner. It was busy time and there were hundreds of people crowded into that place. It was also very hot and the water looked great. The only problem was that [...]
Postal Address
Hi all. I have finally organised for myself a Post Box address to which you can send me anything. No matter how many times I move I will still be able to receive your flood of letters. Send to me at the follow address: Casilla Correo 218 Correo Central 1000 Capital Federal Bs.As. Argentina I [...]