Around 4 Degrees!

The wind has been icy cold and this morning's 12 k bike ride wasn't much fun. Though there wasn't a cloud in the sky, it sure felt quite uncomfortable. It was about 4 degrees early this morning.

We are expecting a top of 21 today which will be some compensation.

Computer Club was busy again. One of the members (who I help out regularly) has just signed with an ISP called ClubTelco. ClubTelco is providing a great plan but the backup leaves a little to be desired. ClubTelco appears to be a rebirth of another low quality cheap ISP called "GoTalk". The Computer Club member wanted to add his ClubTelco email account to Thunderbird. When adding another email account to Thunderbird you need all the email settings. ClubTelco's supplied settings are incomplete so it gets to be a bit of trial and error to get it to work. After an hour I gave up!

A few weeks ago I bought a cheap wireless dongle which when installed to any computer allows it to get on the internet via a local wireless network. It cost less than $10 but has to come from China and takes up to three weeks to be delivered. I have been telling others about them and I have now placed orders for another three of them for people who want to connect to the internet via wireless.

One person has an older non-wireless laptop. Another guy has just updated his PC. The old PC has gone into another room and now he wants to be able to connect it to the internet. The third person, a neighbour, wants one to be able to connect his WD TV Live media player to the internet.

I did a bottle washing today getting ready to bottle some time in the next few days. You can see the stuff drying in the photo above left.

My footy team had a second consecutive loss on Friday night. Hopefully this will be a great 'wake-up' call to them and get them back to playing at their best again. Trish's team won yesterday.

Kate, Arj and the grand kids are due here on Tuesday for 5 nights. Our other daughter Kim was planning to visit late in July but the extended ban put on Tiger flights has put a stop to that visit.