You Tripped at Every Step

[purplerabbits]

The sound you can hear is my brain tearing. It has dawned on me that in order to keep up with the cool kids I will have to spend several hours a day every day for the rest of my life maintaining my technology. At the moment this is not an appealing prospect. Tasks on the list at the moment include, in no particular order:

• See if I can find a copy of the bi-archive pages. Decide whether to try to put it up again or let it rot.


• Change the directory structure of my web pages back to what it was. Because I have Done It Wrong this means going in and changing a lot of fsking links by hand.


• Mail Paul details of the new pages so he can forward the old pages


• Change the email address on every single page, also by hand, and display the new one in such a way that I don't get spammed into Catatonia (which I believe is somewhere beyond Timbuktu).


• Find out if I have access to the logs, and decide whether I can be arsed looking at them.


• Learn how to turn documents into Documents to go and get some onto the Treo


• Start collecting my logins and passwords and get them onto the Treo. Decide whether to pay the $9.95 to get the upgraded version of SplashID which actually allows you to synch this data, or whether to see them in Hell first.


• Connect the charger to the syncing cable for the Treo, which requires finding another non-existent socket under my desk.


• Get Neil's computer onto first the desk, and then, somewhat harder onto the Internet.


• Get rid of up to threetwo old computers. At the moment I am tempted to throw them out of the window onto Sp00ky kids.


• Find time to sit down with the Treo and work out how to access the Interweb


• Get some friendly geek to help me install a Firewire card in my new PC. This scares me because it involves taking the lid off of a box that miraculously works. Haul my tunes from work to home and start syncing the Pod at home instead of work.

There's bound to be more, but this is enough.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Get rid of up to three old computers

Shame you can't get them to London. alexmatt is looking for computer equipment (working or not, recent or obselete) for a charity he does some work for in Brazil, getting Brazilian kids onto IT courses. Equipment over there is expensive, so they are paying him to ship a crate of stuff over in April.

[djm4]

Find out if I have access to the logs, and decide whether I can be arsed looking at them.

If these are thre ones for bi.org, then I believe that in principle Nick is passing them on to the next team, whoever they may be. He certainly has them archived.

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

Actually I meant my home pages. I don't much care about the Bi Archive pages, I've decided, though I would like a cope of the pages themselves, since I can't find them at all...

[pavlos.livejournal.com]

Have a link to a contacts page, rather than your email on every page.

The DocumentsToGo translation process is intensely annoying. If you now have a PalmOS 5 device, get the pro version (which I can give you in a few days), email yourself the documents, and open them as native.

I can come and have another go at setting up your network. I could also take back one of the old computers to take it apart and try to make my other old computer work, before I throw the lot at passers-by from a greater height.

Are you sure you need the charger for the new Treo? My (very fragile for the name) Tungsten charges from USB power.

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

AFAIK there is a USB-charger cable for the Treo, but it's not the one that ships as standard.

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

All of these sound like good ideas. It will be good to see you when you're back. Also, I must cool you soup.