computers

Is fan fiction a bad thing?

by Cellobella on Monday, June 9, 2008

My girl reads a lot of fiction but not books. She reads fan fiction. Fiction written by fans of an author using the author’s world, and the author’s characters. In Dippity’s case it’s Harry Potter and Avatar and there is a lot of it. Fan fiction is not a new thing and I suspect some [...]

From bar to e-nook in one generation

by Cellobella on Sunday, February 24, 2008

Today the Sunday paper’s real estate section taught me that areas like the one we have our computers in is no longer a “bar” but an “e-nook”. Here’s me in my e-nook: As you might be able to tell in this photo – waaay back in 1977 when our house was built, complete with exposed [...]

The day after

by Cellobella on Wednesday, May 2, 2007

The true inconvenience of a computer crash becomes clear the day after… It’s May and I want to change my banner collection but I have to reload all the software – photo editing, FTP – and reload my website files… and that’s irritating because I saved earlier versions of pages on my hard-drive, I probably [...]