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...a Swedish expat in Canada

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We’re in the process of moving from Quebec City to Saint John, New Brunswick. The decision was taken pretty quickly and there are many things to think about. This has left me with less time… or rather..less focus on my online activities. There will be a lot of catching-up once we’re settled, but boy, am I ever happy about this move! Just the fact that I’ll be able to talk to people will make a huge difference.

On a completely different note; I was thinking about Tweenky – my Twitter client of choice — and how difficult it would be to change once you’ve found something you like. It’s like Gmail…once you’ve started using it you can’t go for a different email client. Well…at least not I. I’ve tried. Pre-gmail I used to

Themes and pluginsOctober 6

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I really love this set-up I have with my domain on WordPress. It’s so much fun to change theme every now and then and all the plugins you can add. Eventually I will try and learn how to make my own theme…hopefully.

However, ever so often there seem to be conflicts between both themes vs. plugins and the plugins themselves. AND it’s always my favorite plugin, Zemanta, that refuses to load.

Apart from that I still haven’t figured out what the ‘goal’ of this blog will be. I’m thinking about it though… because I wouldn’t want to quit.

«Where are the big letters?»September 28

A number of years ago I worked in a small clinic…about ten GPs were working there. I was medical transcribing but also a certain computer support and network stuff…nothing advanced.

One day one of the lady Drs called and asked me: ‘What are you doing down there??’ ’That’s an interesting question’, I said…’do you want the details? Are you thinking of something in particular?’

‘Yes’, she said…’what are you doing? The letters are so SMALL!!! I can’t read!’

‘Ahh you mean on your computer screen?’ I asked…’you must have changed the font size!’

‘No, no…I haven’t changed anything’, she replied…’the BIG letters have disappeared!!!’

Then, in an attempt to be funny, I said ‘Well, that’s because we’re out of big letters for the moment down here’, thinking perhaps I would get at least a giggle out of her. Imagine my surprise when she replied: ‘Oh, okay…then I know. Thank you’.

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CHIMPSeptember 26

Yesterday I wrote about how I waited for an invitation to CHI.MP even though I hardly knew what it was all about. Well…I knew that you could get your own user name as a domain name dot mp. That was about all, plus that you could list all your social networks.

I never managed to get one in the invites room in FriendFeed…I was alwaysa few minutes too late. Today I got the beta code from CHI.MP themselves. I was all excited during the sign-up process and afterwards I found myself wondering what all the hoopla was about.

It’s nice alright…and it will probably be useful in the long run. I got my name http://rebkin.mp and the page is just like a listing of my pages. The name…or the URL is also an Open-ID. Got an email address that is forwarded to one of my Gmail accounts. They’re not even in Beta…it’s Alpha and I’m sure they’ll add more bells ‘n whistles to it as they go along.