Dropbox = Awesome

Posted by Sarah on January 5, 2009 under Websites | Be the First to Comment

Dropbox is, perhaps, the single best website ever. Everever. Even more so than Tesco.com and they bring me food, so you know this isn’t a decision I’ve reached easily. Sync documents on different computers, with a web-based interface for those pesky computers that won’t let you install anything, and a deleted document recovery facility for those important documents/essays you may possibly, potentially, perhaps have deleted in a fit of insanity and can’t recover from your OS even with the aid of various document recovery tools. Not that I would ever do that.

Additionally, the public folder allows you to drag in any document and get a public link to share in seconds - perfect for those moments you just need to share a photo of a sleepy hamster but just don’t have the energy to type in a URL and click an upload button.

Get Dropbox

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-01-04

Posted by Sarah on January 4, 2009 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

• Trying to create a Tesco.com order by psychically communicating with the kitchen isn’t going well. “Do you need more cheese?” -SILENCE- #
• Back in Edinburgh! Admittedly, back to the coldest flat mankind ever came home to, but still…! Tomorrow we’ll be hamsterified again too! #
• It is so very cold and so very early. Well, early for Sarah: midday superstar. #
• May have just bought a digital point and shoot. Oops. Still, it’s not 2009 yet, so I can spend all I like! #
• 2009: if nothing else, it can’t possibly be as crappy as 2008… can it? #
• Running Photoshop CS3 on Windows 7 Beta 1 in a Virtual Box on Ubuntu… #
• Gave in: shiny new computer has Vista. Needed to get work done before anyone could deliver XP. #
• Not going to the cinema so I can get work done instead. Martyrdom award is in the post, alongside my OBE for services to “find and replace”. #
• Played Monopoly. Ended up with everyone’s money, all the property on the board, all the houses, a hotel and a get out of jail free card. Win #
• New website: passiveagressive shoe kicking. The ground floor flat leave shoes by their door - right at the bottom of the main stairs. #

Songs I Was Obsessed With In 2008

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In leiu of an in-depth summary of the year that was 2008 - 366 days of lousiness I would never want to repeat again, if that’s alright with you, future-self-who-has-a-time-machine - the next few posts will be quick, short notes from my year. I’ll spare you the whining, though.

Songs I Was Obsessed With In 2008:
Ben Folds - ‘Cologne’
Ben Folds – ‘Hiroshima’
Wicked Soundtrack – ‘Defying Gravity’
Alphabeat - ‘Fascination’
Coldplay – ‘Viva la Vida’
Girls Aloud - ‘Can’t Speak French’
Keane - ‘Spiralling’
Estelle feat Kanye West - ‘American Boy’
Duffy - ‘Mercy’
The Ting Tings - ‘That’s Not My Name’
Sam Sparro - ‘Black and Gold’
Leona Lewis - ‘Run’
Alesha Dixon - ‘The Boy Does Nothing’
Pink – ‘So What’

In summary: I could pretend to be hip and obscure, but I am anyone’s for a catchy hook and a bit of repetition.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-12-28

Posted by Sarah on December 28, 2008 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

• “And the top drawer’s for spongebags…” “You have a drawer for SPONGEBAGS?!” #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-12-21

Posted by Sarah on December 21, 2008 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

• “Are you just making increasingly tiny flash cards? What’s next, grains of rice?” My stats revision technique is under criticism. #
• In 9 hours I get to go and cry to a doctor about my broken sinuses. In 14 hours I get to fail my stats exam. The two may be linked. #
• Sweet offers from medical websites I’ll turn down if that’s okay #438: “Ringworm: view slideshow!” #
• You’d think counting would be a required basic skill for a pharmacist, really… #
• I’m not sure it’s a good thing that my tonsils are still big enough to make doctors wince given that the tonsillitis was eight months ago… #
• Incidentally, if you’re too anxious to sleep, I recommend not listening to a radio 4 documentary on nuclear war as you try to doze off… #
• Oh, sweet land of panic. Must stress. In other news, this may be my last ever university exam… #
• Go sit stats exam or stay home and watch retro Christmas songs? Tempted with the Christmas songs, to be honest… #
• Stats exam is over, although I now have two-and-a-half days to do the giant project/everything else ever in. But for now? SLEEP! #
• Got home from the lab at 1am this morning, going back there now. Seem to have developed tonsillitis overnight. Too tired to eat. Whimper. #
• Is anyone here using Vista and *liking* it? I’m getting a new computer but need to choose between XP and Vista. (They cost about the same). #
• It is 2.33am. I am still in the lab. What fun… (I’m at the stage where I’m making things up now; don’t even understand the questions) #
• 4am: I’ve given up for the night and am home. Both too tired to stay awake and too tired to go to bed. This project can’t end soon enough. #
• Hey, informatics cool kids: now isn’t a GREAT time to have a party, what with the people who have to do actual work, working and all. #
• Ahhhh, finished with the semester and, umm, cleaning the flat. It’s tough being this rock ‘n’ roll, you know. #
• Shiny new computer, meet Twitter. (Currently running Ubuntu, but it’s not a long-term solution for Photoshop…) #
• “Al, that thing I did to make the thing work didn’t work” #
• Packing the hamster up. Trying not to bawl. (How much stuff does one hamster need?) It’sonlyaweek, it’sonlyaweek, it’sonlyaweek. And a bit. #

Sadistics

Posted by Sarah on December 19, 2008 under Things | Be the First to Comment

With apologies to XKCD…

As of this evening, the semester is over. I’ve never wanted anything more in my life.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-12-14

Posted by Sarah on December 14, 2008 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

• These people I work for - they’re joking me, right? RIGHT?! #
• First exam tomorrow and I’m not as prepared as I should/could be but the sleepiness is stronger than the studiousness. #
• OEL notes and readings now in the recycle bin… and now for something, well, quite similar really. More revision! #
• I’m not sure I’ll ever find a use for a load of information about microphone directionality. File under “pointless things I’ve been taught”. #
• If I had a tether, it just ended. #
• I am not okay for the exam tomorrow. I still don’t really understand what’s going on, and I don’t have enough memory ability to remember it. #
• Came home from exam, zonked out to sleep, go up ten minutes before having to leave for a stats “revision session”. Bleary is an apt word. #

Me love cookies

Posted by Sarah on December 13, 2008 under Quotes | Be the First to Comment

Me love cookies. Me tend to get out of control when me see cookies. Me know it not natural to react so strongly to cookies, but me have weakness. Me know me do wrong. Me know it isn’t normal. Me see disapproving looks. Me see stares. Me hurt inside.

Cookie Monster searches deep within himself and asks: is me really monster?

(Somewhat unrelated, but me really want to write whole Statistics assignment in style of Cookie Monster now: “Me run analysis. Me look at graph and say sample not normal. Me know it because of skew. Me hurt inside.”)

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-12-07

Posted by Sarah on December 7, 2008 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

• Making VAT changes to a website: membership, which used to cost £70.50 now costs, umm, 20p. My accountancy career may be over already. #
• Wait, it’s December? Already? #
• Appleton Tower is infested with children. #
• I appear to be snowed in by invisible snow. Where is the snow? They promised me snow! #
• Good riddance, Phonology Lab Report! On to hand-in #2. Revision status: not started yet. Sleep status: all afternoon. #
• Reading an article on ape “language” by A. Gibbons. Hee. #
• Essay proofed, printed and ready to go now too. I’ve stopped caring, which is a bad sign… Now (sigh) onto revision. #
• SO tired. Don’t know if it’s because I’m actually tired or if it’s just because I’m revising. Whichever, it’s sleepy-making. #
• Ways to make revision even less fun: get a stinking cold. Comes with bonus stomach ache & facial numbness (?!). Diagnosing self with death. #

Right now, I’m not convinced you can have any…

Posted by Sarah on December 3, 2008 under Things, Websites | 2 Comments to Read