blue_mai

microsoft outlook access

2009-12-16T15:42:51Z

hello LJ, i wonder if you can help me...
I have a bunch of personal emails i would like to save, from my work email account. They reside in a .pst file on my C-drive, which i can easily copy and take away.
Will i be able to access these again in future, on another computer (not networked), or are they only accessible to my user profile log-in thing? (which will be disabled on Friday)
If i can only get at them by being this user on this network - how can i save them so that i can get at them?
Thank you

blue_mai @ 2009-12-15T20:58:00

2009-12-15T20:58:06Z

i'm really digging people's decade thing.
(no i haven't done much work today - but i stayed in one place! i didn't catch a train or anything!)

Artsadmin30

2009-12-15T18:06:39Z

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/dec/14/artists-30-artsadmin?picture=356870593

photos of artists not always that exciting, but these get better, particuarly like nos. 9 and 10.

sometimes i think

2009-12-15T16:08:49Z

was reminded that i never got the second It's Nice That book, so just ordered it online. Meant to pre-order it but totally forgot, and still regret not doing so as the pre-order came with a small version of this really great Rob Ryan print http://shop.itsnicethat.com/products/sometimes-i-think

the wonderful new experiences my shiny phone gives me...

2009-12-14T18:27:50Z

sitting on the train listening to Smalltown Boy. Window seat :)

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wishlist

2009-12-14T12:09:45Z

this is a partly a post-from-phone test...
Rarely do i find that there's anything i actually want around this time of year. Coincidentally there are few things right now, but we dont do much in the way of gifts round here so i might just be buying myself something special:

- flip video camera
- a new musical toy
- sheet music (might get this for family)
- ART - a rachel edgar print, and there are a few from the Postcards from Dystopia exhibition i rather like...
Hmmm....

ETA: more!
- walking boots
- rotary trimmer

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heh

2009-12-10T18:58:34Z

i was just ID-ed in marks&spencer (i didn't have any, i just said "i'm thirty").
i was buying cherry liqueur chocolates.
surely not the booze of choice for Bankside's teenagers?

grammar

2009-12-10T11:15:05Z

hello LJ. I have a question of grammar that i hope one of you can answer (because neither i nor my colleagues can) - when talking about a place, the place is sometimes a plural. Is it wrong to say "The fens are a place where... " because it goes from plural to singular?

gig alert: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

2009-12-08T18:12:16Z

i've been semi-reliably informed that there are tickets on the door for some quality twee/fuzz-indie-pop tonight, at the Scala, supported by Allo Darlin' and Male Bonding, and followed by a free after-party at the Lexington. i'd be there, if it wasn't for the ex-housemate's pre-Christmas drinks i said i'd go to... eh.

erm

2009-12-07T14:31:13Z

so, you know i got that new shiny phone?

it has internet on it. when i go to connect, it chooses the "Orange World" connection. i'm on Orange PAYG "Dolphin" package which gives me "free internet" up to a 50MB a month. i'm a bit new to this and all confused:
- i don't really understand what Orange World is - is it just the connection? or is it those Orange information sites about sport etc? i seemed to be able to browse anything without cost, last week, until i must have hit the limit and it suddenly ate all my credit, annoyingly. why doesn't it give you a warning that you've used up the allowance..? grump.
- so, there's supposed to be a £2 daily cap on browsing costs, but i can't work out how to opt-in, or does it only allow for looking at Orange sites? it certainly ate a lot more than £2.
- Dolphin details say "free internet on your mobile" but elsewhere free Facebook access, and when i spoke to a customer services person just now, they said it was only Facebook, Bebo, Myspace and Flirtomatic. not very useful.

hoping someone may be on Orange PAYG or just know. also, if it turns out that my "free internet" means limited access to social networking sites, what do you recommend for general internet stuff on phone? i'd like to be able to send emails, read LJ etc. ta.

too late for things

2009-11-21T15:54:43Z

saw the Monsters of Folk on tuesday. felt like an age since i last went to a gig (though i think it was only late summer, Tindersticks), i finally get to see the inside of the Troxy. it was good, there is more to write later maybe.

went drinking last night with current and former office colleagues. one of the good things about this place is the comraderie and genuine affection the workers have for one another. although it takes some getting used to and has definite downsides regarding personal/professional boundaries etc. glad to see some old faces, but was super-tired all day, and 3.5 pints later was ver drunk. ah well. don't feel too bad today but a mild hangover is indicated by my lack of disposition to do anything, and frequent typos.

some of these are good: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/openletters/

and, my painter friend is in this show, at orbital comics, ends on monday: http://www.dansemacabre-art.co.uk/dm_london2009.html go see it.

now, to work out how to get to Longstowe tonight, and Burwell tomorrow. should i try and get a lift, or just accept that there will be a lot of cycling tomorrow (Longstowe-Cambridge-Burwell-Cambridge)...?

blue_mai @ 2009-11-14T19:32:00

2009-11-14T19:24:54Z

blue_mai fashion shock (for anyone that knows me in person, like):
today i bought black skinny jeans.
then i bought purple skinny jeans.
!!!

photog and other stuff

2009-11-10T14:42:01Z

Sophie Calle exhib at Whitechapel
Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs at the British Library http://www.bl.uk/pointsofview/
Photography collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/
Of Dreams and Cities at BFI Southbank http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/november_seasons/of_dreams_and_cities
Garry Fabian Miller (photo that was in the overview permanent stuff at V&A titled "Breathing in the Beech Wood, Homeland, Dartmoor, Twenty Four Days of Sunlight")
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/past_exhns/miller/index.html
http://www.jameshymangallery.com/pages/exhibition/760.html

nooo

2009-11-02T18:54:14Z

am getting a cold again. all achey down the back of neck and shoulders and feels funny just below my ears. been a bit dopey all afternoon but then, feeling kinda distracted anyway. haven't been able to sleep well lately. gah. don't need this now. have an all-day outing with the shtewdents tomorrow, rain forecast...

links (archit)

2009-10-28T18:58:34Z

look who's back: http://www.siteenvirodesign.com/ (or S.I.T.E. never actually go away...?)
the A.O.C. http://www.theaoc.co.uk/
Douglas Coupland's 2nd house (renovation in Vancouver) http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/12/garden/20090813-location-slideshow_index.html
http://www.arcspace.com/books/taschen/Case_Study_Houses/csh_book.html
http://www.artsandarchitecture.com/case.houses/

links (photography)

2009-10-28T01:08:42Z

http://www.beardsworth.co.uk/
http://www.fstopmagazine.com/
http://copyrightaction.com/node
(to look at later)

R2

2009-10-27T01:38:22Z

i find the celebrity DJs a mixed bag, frequently irritating (Michael Ball, Alan Titchmarsh, Elaine Page...) but sometimes really good. Huey Morgan and Liza Tarbuck over the summer were a lovely surprise, i was quite disappointed when Ross came back from holiday... kinda annoying but also kinda endearing Dermot OLeary just can't be reconciled with that bloke on X-Factor. Imogen Heap was great on his show at the weekend - worth trawling the iplayer to get to the bit where she sings Thriller, it's just fantastic. i might do that tomorrow actually, can't remember what sort of time it was. anyway, so John Barrowman isn't as good as i thought he would be (perhaps it's just the showtunes, not really my cup of tea), but Paul O'Grady is wonderful: dead pets, northern soul and Montserrat Caballe. in general i like people better on the radio than on tv (the same person, that is), i think it's that they talk to you on radio, you dear listener they say, not the vast impersonal audience of TV to be performed at.

links

2009-10-27T01:02:34Z

archity:
http://www.horhizon.com/
http://cfd.wimbledon.ac.uk/ - centre for drawing
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/sophie-calle-talking-to-strangers

blue_mai @ 2009-10-26T09:09:00

2009-10-26T09:05:47Z

i think my train did the equivalent of ctrl-alt-delete this morning when we we had to 'reboot' at Royston... cue sitting in the dark and quiet for a few minutes before we start up again. in combination with problems connecting the second train at cambridge, and the go-slow from there until the reboot, we got into kingsx 20 minutes late...

not-quite-useless stuff

2009-10-22T18:52:20Z

oh yes there was something else:
i mentioned before but don't quite recall the outcome. i have lots of redundant paper at work, large sheets of white plain bond, printed on one side. the ink isn't water-resistant, nor is the paper great for drawing on in ink, it's quite loose and absorbent (plotter paper) and is about 90gsm (at a guess). this is the normal state of things, some of this stuff looking a bit dog-eared and dusty, or folded in boxes. Some of the folded stuff is from the copiers, so potentially better for drawing on. Anyway, right now i have about 10 pristine (apart from the printing) A1 sheets on my desk. Anyone want them before they go under the desk to join the dusty ones?

also, someone commented the other day that with the popular demise of film photography people no longer have easy access to film cases, those marvellous multi-purpose waterproof little boxes. I, as you may have guessed, have lots. If anyone would like some just let me know.
I currently have several in my bag and by my bed, holding iron tablets, pencil sharpeners, moisturiser, a piece of solid deodorant, paper punch tips, needle and thread, scalpel blades, broken bracelet...

blue_mai @ 2009-10-22T19:31:00

2009-10-22T18:36:09Z

woo! last.fm just played me Best Regrets by Geneva for the first time, despite me 'favoriting' it weeks ago. haven't heard it for ages and it's GREAT (in a small way perhaps)
some of my favorites it plays quite regularly, it also latches onto slightly random songs - Slip Away by Undercover - eh? that it decides i must like even though i haven't said so. and i suppose it thinks "aha, you've listened to this 7 times, you must like it". SKIP.

Trafalgar square - London films

2009-10-22T16:20:20Z

late notice i know, but from 6.30 tonight, free screening of archive short films (seems to now be a regular part of the London film fest) in trafalgar square, this year all about transport.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/events/outdoor_screening_in_trafalgar_square

wrap up warm now.

American suburb X

2009-10-18T22:28:59Z

http://www.americansuburbx.com/
photography stuff, interviews, essays.

new tricks

2009-10-17T13:51:18Z

we have broadband at home :)

Free Bier

2009-10-15T14:49:30Z

i keep forgetting to post this:

Tonight from 6pm: Free beer and food (for the first few i would guess) at the new bierkeller on Southwark St, Hop Exchange cellars, next to the newly located Hopbine.

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/restaurants/info/727/katzenjammers