At Morrisons you can make your own salad. In order to fit the most salad possible into the small plastic container, it is important that any rice or couscous is added either first or last (or both), in order that it can fill all the gaps between the chunkier items. It’s also important to squish everything in with the spoon as you add it, but not too much otherwise it springs open while at the checkout.
So my computer screen was locked at work today, and when I tried to unlock it it decided it was time for me to change my password. That’s not such a big deal – it’s just a case of trying to think of a password which isn’t the same as any of my last 30 passwords, contains upper- and lower-case letters, numbers and “special characters”, and which I can remember. However, I’ve done this before, and I seem to remember it wasn’t quite that simple…
![The password for this account has expired. To change the password, click Cancel, click Switch User, and then log on. [OK]](http://jamesots.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/IMG_20100701_121248-550x330.jpg "Step 1")
Right, click on Cancel. Er, there is no cancel button. I guess you meant for me to click on OK?
![XXXX Logged in. [Password] -> [Cancel]](http://jamesots.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/IMG_20100701_121300-550x330.jpg "Step 2")
Ah, is that the Cancel button I was supposed to click on. Ok, I’ll give it a go…
![CTRL + ALT + DELETE to unlock this computer. XXXX logged in. [Switch User]](http://jamesots.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/IMG_20100701_121312-550x330.jpg "Step 3")
Right, what was next? Switch User, I think…
Ok, I pressed that to try to unlock the computer before, but I’ll try again.
![XXXX Logged In. Other User. [Cancel]](http://jamesots.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/IMG_20100701_121336-550x330.jpg "Step 5")
It asked me to switch user. So should I click on the other user, or on myself again? I’ll try clicking on me.
![XXXX logged in. [Password] -> [Switch User]](http://jamesots.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/IMG_20100701_121343-550x330.jpg "Step 6")
Hmm, there’s another switch user button. Perhaps I should click that? Or should I type my password? Or have I gone down completely the wrong track? I’ll type my password, see what happens…
![Your password has expired and must be changed. [OK] [Cancel]](http://jamesots.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/IMG_20100701_121352-550x330.jpg "Step 7")
You don’t say? I was just doing all this for fun.
![XXXXX ****** New Password. Confirm Password. [Cancel]](http://jamesots.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/IMG_20100701_1213581-550x330.jpg "Step 8")
Aha! Now why couldn’t you have said that at the start?
Finally. At least I don’t have to do that for another 30 days.
The first time I did this it took quite a few more than just these 9 steps, as I went wrong several times. And choosing a valid password is another story entirely.
I’m just trying out things on WordPress – and at the moment, I’m trying out blogging from Flickr. This is a photo I took during our honeymoon. Nice, isn’t it?
I was just looking up at the sky, watching the clouds float by, and thought I should try drawing the clouds. So I did. I’m not sure how this will work as I have never posted from my phone before.
I finally bit the bullet and scrapped my website. For the last eight or so years, this website has been running on my own custom code. I wrote it because I couldn’t find anything which was flexible enough to do what I wanted, and which was coded with clean and robust code. It’s been working pretty well, and it was fun writing it, but it was rather a pain trying to keep it up to date. So I’ve switched to using WordPress.. There are many advantages – and one of the most important, I think, is that there’s an Android app for WordPress, which means it’s really easy for me to keep this site up to date. Also, it’s nice to be able to have the site automatically use a mobile-friendly theme when viewing it on a phone.
I’m not quite sure at the moment how blogs, Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz fit together, but I’m going to try to start blogging again and maybe find out. At the moment this site isn’t complete – I intend to at least add automatic Twitter updates and customise the theme, and then see how things go from there.
As is often the case, it’s been quote a long time since I updated the blog. This is partly because a lot of my daily updates are now done via facebook and twitter, partly because having a baby means I’m often too tired or busy to update the blog, and partly because I’m too lazy. I think I might add a twitter feed to this page at some point.
Since the last blog update we’ve spent five weeks in Canada, even more weeks back home, Joscelyn has grown a lot and become three months old, I’ve got a new computer, I haven’t taken photographs every day, but I do have more photos than I’ve uploaded so far, and generally things are going pretty well. The car’s clutch pedal broke at the weekend, but it got fixed for just under £70, so I can’t complain much.
