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2008 July 11, 19 Rahmat, 165 BE

 

Over the past week I have been fooling around with broken-down computers, repairs, upgrades and generally catching up on a todo list as long as your arm.

The Youth Impact Centre has switched to a summer schedule and has a couple of youth workers helping its new pastor, Ray. My usual co-coordinator, Stu, is taking the summer off, so Gord and I have been handling the Friday night chess club alone. Silvie was involved in the pastor's Martial Arts classes for a few months, but then her interest flagged. She stays home on the night I volunteer, Fridays, while Thomas still comes along.

 

Our main computer failed after I upgraded its RAM, in preparation for putting MS Flight Simulator onto it. I also purchased a video card from the new local computer store, Computer Troubleshooters. They stood by what they sold me, and now the machine seems to be working. In the meantime I have been trying to make the switch from a windows machine to the Imac, which we have owned for six months but were using mostly as a television and DVD player, rather than a computer.

 

I have had no choice but to post directly to the badi blog. You can go to the blog to read the recent posts all together quite conveniently; they are short and to the point, usually with a link to something I found interesting. Here is a list of the posts in the order of the principle system I use, along with their location on the web:

 

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p07 (Education) Creativity Expert

  http://badiblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/creativity-expert.html

p14 (Virtues and Calendar) Round format of the Badi' Calendar

  2008 July 12, 19 Rahmat, 165 BE

  http://badiblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/round-format-of-badi-calendar.html

p15dea (Mind, Soul and Body; Death) Five things to do before you die

  http://badiblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/5-things-to-do-before-you-die.html

p17 (Love) Some Kind of Wonderful

  http://badiblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/some-kind-of-wonderful.html

p22cor (Politics, Corruption) Medical corruption?

  http://badiblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/medical-corruption.html

p33 (Travel, Transportation) Where's Mat?

  http://badiblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/wheres-mat.html

p33 (Travel) Worst Plane Crash

  http://badiblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/worst-plane-crash.html

tfam (Family and Sex) My Favorite Movie Kiss

  http://badiblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-favorite-movie-kiss.html

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2008 July 14,

 

Converting to a mac is a huge job for an old timer like me. Very set in my ways, I am. I have been up to my neck in networking protocols, a thumb modem that turned out to be defective, and on and on. This DOSBOX program for using DOS on a Mac works, but it is a pain to set up. It looks like I might have to buy a notebook computer if only to be able to use my ancient DOS writing program, Maxthink, in native mode, with all keystroke shortcuts intact. Meanwhile, I have been making short posts periodically, direct to the blog. One of them is:

 

http://badiblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/baha.html