It seems my comment to friends yesterday shows as an html error, so I am repeating it today.
Good morning. It is a beautiful winter (?) morning here in sunny Queensland, which is living up to its motto: “Beautiful one day, perfect the next.”
Winter officially has another two weeks here, but apart from a couple of days when I wore a light cardy, we could be mistaken for thinking it was spring. I guess that means we are in for a steamy summer.
Whatever your weather, I hope you are enjoying your week and ready for a relaxing / achieving / challenging / fun / or whatever you’ve planned weekend. Make sure that you do at least one thing for yourself this weekend. You deserve to be pampered, even if you have to do it yourself.
A thought for the week: When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. So live your life that when you die, you are the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.
Good morning friends. Although I have popped in most days to respond to friends’ comments, messages, blogs etc I have not been able to send comments for some time. I have been working on a new project, not difficult but time consuming and demanding of full concentration. It is progressing well so I’m taking a break to greet my friends. I’ve missed the daily “chat” but I see many others have also been absent for some time.
We are in the last month of winter, but we have only had two days cold enough to wear more than a light cardy. I hope that doesn’t mean we’ll have a hotter than usual summer! If so, I might decide to migrate south!
My thought for the day is from Albert Einstein: Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
My wish for the day: The discovery of a new ability and the joy of success - especially if after initial failure.
Hi. Yes, June July and August are our winter months, but here in sunny coastal Queensland, we get very little 'winter' weather. I hardly ever add more than a light linen jacket, but sometimes wear something a bit warmer if going out at night. Our winter days are usually around 20 - 24*C (68-74*F).
Every winter I spend a week in Toowoomba which is only a four hour drive away, but it is inland and on the ranges, and I freeze there!
Living here, I love winter, but wouldn't be so keen on winter if I lived elsewhere.
Thursday 7.00am and all is well. The sun is shining on a beautiful mid-winter morning 22*C or 70*F. I can’t complain about that but I must admit I’ve been complaining (along with most friends) about the slowness of yuwie lately. My limited time here is spent waiting … and waiting … and waiting. This is reminiscent of two years ago in the early days of yuwie, when things were much, much worse, but then we were having so much FUN we tolerated it and joked about it.
So … a couple of quotes from Mr Anonymous seem appropriate . . .
¶ Any fool can criticize condemn and complain - and most fools do ¶ It is the growling man who lives a dog’s life
I wish for you, my friend, a happy day and happy days to come.
My computer loves Firefox and only slows down or gives problems when I am forced to use IE because particular websites are only friendly with IE.
I'm not keen on Opera but I believe it has similar functions to Firefox.
I know that with Opera the 'shift i' feature toggles between showing images, only cached images and no images, but who wants to view pages without images? I only use Opera for a couple of friend's pages which are so heavy that my slow connection and download limit won't open them.
And to add to Cloudwatcher's comment, there is also an add on to Firefox called no script where you can actually decide site by site what to allow to run. I can't even SEE the ads on Yuwie, don't get popups. nothing. It's a bit of work initially but well worth it.
I use Firefox with AdBlockPlus and apart from the adv at login I get no advs and no pop-ups. I know Annie uses the same. Yuwie can be a bit slow at times, but without advs I don't think it is too bad.
