Techno-crap
Sep. 9th, 2009 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksSo, I have my new netbook Acer Aspire, and I'm sitting there wondering what the fuck to do with it. I also have a Palm Tungsten W, and it's sitting there and I'm wondering what the fuck to do with it. I've disinterred the old computer and set it up by the Yamaha. In this case, I know what to do with it, but I don't know how to do it. Oh, computers, thy name is taking up time.
The Netbook is the most paradoxical. Looking at it, I think "wow, that's GREAT", but then I can see that, when I go away on holiday, I shall still be humping along a 17in widescreen super laptop with full keyboard and surround sound. And at the moment, because I'm darned disorganized about these things, there's nothing installed on it apart from Windows XP. Perhaps this might be the right moment to start using a free e-mail package. Then at least I could do my email stuff and the like while relaxing in bed.
The Palm Tungsten really works best with a Sim Card in it and GPRS data retrieval. I haven't got round to that, either.
But will I have the courage to go away and actually leave my laptop behind? I don't know. It would make travelling a lot lighter.
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Worst week of the year on the trading front, following a bad six weeks. So it goes. The year has been good to me so far and I'm more content than I have been for a long time.
I can pretend to myself that it's a "hedge" against my stock holdings, but to be honest, that's all bollocks. It's a gamble that went wrong and to claim anything else would be self-deception. I've put together a sequence of these since the end of 2007 (from the moment I chose a fixed rate over a tracker for the mortgage). Gainsayers can be wise in hindsight, but they said nothing at the time. And the bears on the stockmarket have been markedly quiet of late. Meanwhile, I sit there doing my balls, short at 4618. Sigh.
The softs have proved an unmitigated disaster as well. Lesser men would probably have been broken, quit, left the country, claimed that it's all rigged, lol. Me? I just take it as a good lesson in being careful of hubris and overconfidence that my analysis is right. After all, analysis can be right, but the timing can be wrong. The markets are a weighing machine in the long term and a voting machine in the short term. And the short term is longer than you think.
Still, chucking yet another grand into the IG account to stop yourself being closed out can get a bit tedious, even if the Marketmaster account is up by three grand at the same time.
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The Netbook is the most paradoxical. Looking at it, I think "wow, that's GREAT", but then I can see that, when I go away on holiday, I shall still be humping along a 17in widescreen super laptop with full keyboard and surround sound. And at the moment, because I'm darned disorganized about these things, there's nothing installed on it apart from Windows XP. Perhaps this might be the right moment to start using a free e-mail package. Then at least I could do my email stuff and the like while relaxing in bed.
The Palm Tungsten really works best with a Sim Card in it and GPRS data retrieval. I haven't got round to that, either.
But will I have the courage to go away and actually leave my laptop behind? I don't know. It would make travelling a lot lighter.
++++++++
Worst week of the year on the trading front, following a bad six weeks. So it goes. The year has been good to me so far and I'm more content than I have been for a long time.
I can pretend to myself that it's a "hedge" against my stock holdings, but to be honest, that's all bollocks. It's a gamble that went wrong and to claim anything else would be self-deception. I've put together a sequence of these since the end of 2007 (from the moment I chose a fixed rate over a tracker for the mortgage). Gainsayers can be wise in hindsight, but they said nothing at the time. And the bears on the stockmarket have been markedly quiet of late. Meanwhile, I sit there doing my balls, short at 4618. Sigh.
The softs have proved an unmitigated disaster as well. Lesser men would probably have been broken, quit, left the country, claimed that it's all rigged, lol. Me? I just take it as a good lesson in being careful of hubris and overconfidence that my analysis is right. After all, analysis can be right, but the timing can be wrong. The markets are a weighing machine in the long term and a voting machine in the short term. And the short term is longer than you think.
Still, chucking yet another grand into the IG account to stop yourself being closed out can get a bit tedious, even if the Marketmaster account is up by three grand at the same time.
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