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While buying a phone today I got chatting and found out about this option for upgrading your home built computer:

Images of computers bathed in mineral oil

YouTube video of the

So today was a good day for all sorts of reasons. And it hasn't finished yet.

Day 1 of post-home-ed-era. I need a better phrase, because once in the home ed world, forever changed.

Photo of the day

Photo of the day

Infinity Broadband

We have a happy house this evening, full of people using superfast broadband. We hardly talk to each other any more.

Disaster

T's screens went dark after H uploaded a new game. He couldn't even reboot because nothing happened.

He told us both to go away, so we fled to leave him him in peace to work out what to do. All computer problems get solved sooner or later in this house. We stayed out of range for an hour maybe.

Calm is restored, T's screens are all back in action and life goes on. They might be built on logic, but they seem very temperamental to me.

Just now I solved a simpler problem, H had an ID and password for his email which were far too complicated to ever spell correctly. So I have re-registered him with a deadly simple ID and password so at least he has a functioning email account.

Brownian motion

T and H walking around the room debating the effects of adding more RAM to a computer. Talking, walking and thinking seem to be linked.

"I have a theory..." starts another round of discussion.

Thank you to my son T

He taught me, for the nth time, to upload photos from my mobile to my laptop.

What will I do when he decides to leave home and take his knowledge with him??

Our wireless will wilt, and no one will remember the admin passwords. We will bribe him to come and stay for a day or so to straighten us out again. He will be so fed up with us!

Soldering

We will work out how to do this tonight, all being well. I have a light soldering iron, some flux and solder. T has lots of components he wants to put together and good enough eyesight that he can see what he is doing with all those tiny wires. Also the love of electronics which pushes him on to work on such things.

Learning New Spellings

As an adult I am having to face the fact that English is shifting and growing as I breathe.

Here are the spellings I had to get right, ie get wrong then Google to check how to get them right, just in the past few minutes.

LEDs
IDE adaptor
Bluetooth
ThinkPad

Here are the ones I actually knew already:

10Gb, pronounced gig, ie gigabyte
USB hub
Compact Flash drive

T has a shopping list so I offered to write it down there and then as I have a pen and A4 pad. He is recovering from the lurgy so is at home and doing lots of computery stuff.

Now H

H has announced that he would like to learn more about computers, would like his own and would like to build it with T's supervision.

So we have been negotiating the details over the past week. I ordered the parts T has been listing and relisting for days. The delivery will be this Friday.

It will be put downstairs in the toy room along with a TV which will be used as the monitor. The PS3 will be brought down too.

Roll on Friday.

T and J looking at the new computer.

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Today's news about the computer:

T has installed a couple of new hard drives and windows 7.

I had to go and buy some special star screwdrivers, hexagon shaped. They were necessary to get into a hard drive casing.