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Google Street View UK launched yesterday. I'm pleased to say our old car has been Street-Viewed. I got a bit nostalgic.

My laptop will only work off AC power. The tech said it was the battery and replaced it, but still having the same problem. I'll deal. It's usable.

There's an unsecured wireless network from one of our neighbors. They have changed NONE of the out of the box settings. I just logged in to their router config. I'm tempted to change the wireless network ID....

Found a theme to make Firefox 3 look like Firefox 2. It's not perfect, but at least it's back to light grey. (the reason I don't just go back to Firefox 2 is that it had a bad problem with locking up and requiring a Force Quit--I was never able to work out why, and I tried disabling extensions etc--and I'm hoping 3 will fix that.)

1) Do not like new OS-integrated look.

2) Auto-complete in the address bar is now weird. It doesn't order the entries by frequency of use. (At least, it's not doing it with my old history entries--things seem to be improved a little with the ones I've just entered. Interesting--just told it not to save my history, quit and restarted, and it didn't wipe all the entries. This is mostly good because Aliza has accidentally wiped it more than once [cmd-, is preferences, easy for her to hit] but odd. I had to do a "clear private data" to wipe it to see if that helped.)

3) Aliza's Robeez are looking pretty shabby so I got her new ones. She doesn't have much room left in 12-18 months so I got 18-24. They are HUGE. No way can she wear them, not for ages. I'll keep them because she will grow into them (and they really are best for indoors or playing on soft surfaces) but she'll have to stay in her old ones for a while. Hopefully the current ones will last.

out of curiosity I went to see how much another gig of RAM would cost. (was reading about Spore--seems EA is developing a Mac version along with the PC version, instead of sending it out to Aspyr for a crappy port 6 months later.)

Ran Crucial's scanner and... 1GB of RAM is £12.99! I remember when I bought a gig for my PowerBook it was closer to £50. At this price it's practically pocket change.

I want to replace my laptop bag. What I want is a Brenthaven backpack (I need the Pro 15/17). They cost £129 new, which is a little steep. None for sale on eBay (the Expandable Trek is only for up to 15.4" laptops)

Anyone know anywhere else I might get a deal?

We went out for my BIL's 40th yesterday. Aliza was well behaved and ate all her fish and chips, plus some of her grandad's creme brulee and the biscuit that came with it!

Worked out the Semagic problem (or at least, a better diagnosis): If you log in with it, then switch accounts, the 2nd account can't use it. You have to reboot Windows instead. I have no idea why this is.

Want my laptop now kthxbai. Aliza does NOT like me sitting at the PC.

I went out today and forgot my wallet (I screwed up when transferring things between bags--came home and found it on the sofa!) I discovered this when I went to get the Guardian at the newsagent's. Doh. Luckily I was mainly headed in to meet Neil before he went to see Iron Man, so it wasn't too bad... though I did go into the Gap (thinking "oh, I'll see if they have that outfit Brent Cross didn't have in her size yesterday"), got into the lift, and then remembered--no wallet.

Off topic: Semagic doesn't work properly on my account on Neil's PC. It starts logging in, hangs on "Sent 262 bytes..." and then tells me "cannot contact server". It works perfectly on his account. I think there's something weird with the install anyway as it only has one saved set of prefs and settings for all users.

I forgot to put my laptop away properly when I went into the kitchen. Aliza removed 5 keys. The A is permanently broken.

That will be an impromptu trip to Brent Cross tonight then. Ironically I needed to go there today (but I can't take my laptop there myself--I tried it once and I can't manage laptop bag + diaper bag + stroller). Meh.