Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12301176)

We just had another hummingbird at the hanging basket right outside the window. A tiny thing this time. I mean they're small anyway, but this was not much bigger than a bee. :ohmy:

Originally Posted by Siouxie (Post 12301206)

Was it a hummingbird or a hummingbird hawkmoth, perhaps?

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12301219)

Good heavens, I never knew such a thing existed.

From those clips, other images and a bit of googling regarding sizes I'm confident it was a bird. Hope so as moths are ugly buggers. :o

I probably over exaggerated (or under :lol:) its small size as it was quite a bit smaller than the one I saw there previously.

Although the earlier sighting could have been a monster moth. :rofl:

Originally Posted by Siouxie (Post 12301271)

The hummingbird moth is quite beautiful :p

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12301424)

Worked my first night shift Saturday (2100-0100) and while we got off at 0210 due to a maintenance issue, and there is no real break, it's a far nicer shift, almost like having every day off as you are free nearly the entire day.

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12301424)

Worked my first night shift Saturday (2100-0100) and while we got off at 0210 due to a maintenance issue, and there is no real break, it's a far nicer shift, almost like having every day off as you are free nearly the entire day.

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12301965)

Since we moved here (Moncton) in 2005 it was noticeable that in our area people appeared to be tucked up in bed - or sitting in darkness, given the lack of any lights on in nearby houses - by about 10.00pm.

And up early too.

In today's paper there's a letter from someone, who appears to have at least one letter every week, complaining about people mowing their lawns too late...about 8.00pm.

"I profess to being asleep around 11 or so but a lot of people do not stay up late."

He makes it sound like 11 is late. :rofl::rofl:

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12302040)

Microsoft is planning to kill off Paint after 32 years

Bloody cheek. :lol: I didn't start using it until I was past 40 :ohmy: and I still use it now for larking about.

I recently opened Paint 3D believing it to be 'just the latest version' with W10 and I was horrified. Didn't have a clue where to start. Fortunately I found the 'proper' one. :nod:



I don't understand this "feature poor" argument. Is there something wrong with 'basic' and 'advanced' (or enhanced) options?

Just about everywhere you go in life there are basic or standard services/products with premium add-ons - like TV packages, internet speeds, phones, memberships, even Amazon services etc - so why in the computer world does everything have to be all or nothing just because someone designs something else?

Why the hell can't you get word, excel and outlook together, for example, without having to pay for all the other bits. I'm never going to be making professional (or any other kind) presentations FFS :frown:

Originally Posted by Siouxie (Post 12302073)

Outlook for windows 10 free https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/stor...r/9wzdncrfhvqm

Then get Open Office for the rest.

:)

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12302091)

I think I may have just made a nice discovery :unsure: :fingerscrossed:

Originally Posted by Cheltonian (Post 12302174)

I use Open Office its free. For letters I use readwritethink letter generator again its free and very easy to use for both personal and business letters.

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12302179)

False alarm. :(


Yep, Open Office, Libre, Kingsoft...all free. I settled for Kingsoft as it was smaller.

But it's really proper Outlook I miss.

Thunderbird is okay but I'm not convinced the odd email doesn't disappear for no obvious reason.

Originally Posted by Siouxie (Post 12302262)

How old a version are you looking for? There's a 2013 edition free on Microsoft...

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12302286)

That looks just like my 'false alarm' earlier. :(

I found what purported to be just Word but it was the whole Office suite. It wanted you to accept a couple of other things which I declined. It all seemed to work but the install failed to complete.

I tried it three times, even accepting Avast (expecting to just uninstall it later) but it didn't work at all.

I just tried two of those Outlooks and they had the very same appearance as the one I tried earlier except that declining the other 'offers' of additional installs meant the Outlook install wouldn't even start.

Originally Posted by Siouxie (Post 12302405)

I got it to install (supposedly) but it doesn't appear to be anywhere on my computer! Very strange...

Sorry Bristol, if I find a workaround I'll let you know.

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12304573)

Ever wonder where your cursor has gone and then you discover you turned your mouse off? :o

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12304584)

Charlee the dog...goes bonkers for venison and kangaroo.

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12304603)

I posted a couple of days ago about how early people go to bed here in our part of Moncton.

I'm currently wearing a blood pressure monitor for 24 hours. It's set to go every half an hour and hourly through the night, which I took to be somewhere around midnight.

It's been going 10 past and 20 to and I've just realised that 10.40 came and went and it didn't go.

So bed time officially starts at 10.10. :lol:

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12304605)

I wish small companies/businesses would not rely on FB as their only way to sell/advertise, they really seem to be missing out by not having a website and appearing on google.

It's also a lot harder to find things on FB.

Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 12304767)

I've never had a FB account yet in my demographic (male, WASP, white collar early 50's)

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12303100)

If flying from YYZ later this week, just an FYI.

Toronto’s Pearson Airport could be hit by baggage handlers’ strike Thursday | Financial Post

Originally Posted by Stinkypup (Post 12304606)

Have you had a nice cup of Horlicks yet?

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12304605)

I wish small companies/businesses would not rely on FB as their only way to sell/advertise, they really seem to be missing out by not having a website and appearing on google..

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 12304783)

Maybe you're too young or Ottawa is too far away. Very many of the people I knew in school or worked with along the way have active accounts. Relentless posts about tennis, bird watching, sailing and cheap holidays in the sun. I suppose the way of Zimmer frame reviews can't be far off. I usually stalk people I meet at work and am surprised if they have no facebook profile.

I use Instagram to see what my children are doing, they're not young though, I suppose there's some other platform for the youth of today that's too fashionable for me to have even heard of.

Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 12304767)

The local newspaper (Ottawa Citizen) uses FB as the way to make comments on articles.

I've never had a FB account yet in my demographic (male, WASP, white collar early 50's) it doesn't really come up in conversation and people never say 'hey I tried to find you on FB'. Really only wife and kids know of my refusal to get an account. Our 16 year old son has an account and never really uses it. He prefers Reddit for information (same with me) and Instagram. Wife and 20 year old daughter use their FB accounts.

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12304824)

And there are plenty who do have websites but their latest info is on FB. Including opening times :confused:

It's as if they don't want your business if you're not part of the in-crowd. :lol:

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12304669)

This new trend of companies (all US based thus far) wanting to randomly verify your account via sending a text with a security code is annoying.

Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 12304935)

I've heard that employers get concerned when potential employees don't have FB account as if they're trying to hide something