I've just sung two carol services, one on Tuesday and one on Wednesday. On Wednesday afternoon here in Hereford it snowed - real snow - for about an hour - just enough for complete strangers to smile at each other and kids to start throwing snowballs.
I was sent this clip last year and I laughed and smiled and sang along when I first watched it...and I'd love to do it with some friends! I can't sing bass like Santa and I can't go falsetto like the lead reindeer, but I could be one of those three 'backing vocals'! Hope you like it:
I've given a few lessons this week up to the 23rd, which pleasantly surprised me, and I'm starting again on Jan 4th 2010. I was worried that business would drop off well before this week and be slow in picking up again in January, so I'm really pleased that things are looking promising.
I hope you all have a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Colin
Friday 25 December 2009
Tuesday 15 December 2009
Windows 7
Just a quick comment on Windows 7 - my experience of it so far. I've set up three new computers in the last fortnight and of course they are running Windows 7. Very similar to Vista but without those stupid 'Gadgets'. Hooray! What a waste of space they were! And - really important, this - it's so much easier to 'shut down'. Microsoft have now put a button on the Start menu that actually says 'Shut Down'...and it does!
Vista has a red button that looks as though it will shut down the computer. But for some weird reason, Microsoft's default setting for this button was/is 'Sleep'. So I would turn up for someone's lesson to find that the laptop's battery was run right down and I would then sympathise and try to explain this annoying state of affairs. Every Vista computer I meet now, I make sure I go into Control Panel and set the Start Menu power button to 'shut down'.
So the message got through to Microsoft, I'm pleased to see.
But I spent some time on my first Windows 7 experience looking for the resident mail client. It used to be Outlook Express and then Vista introduced Windows Mail which was very similar. But now you have to use Windows Live Mail on 7, which you can set up as a client. Took me some time to find out, though!
Anyone else got comments on Windows 7 - or anything else in the tutoring line?
Colin
Vista has a red button that looks as though it will shut down the computer. But for some weird reason, Microsoft's default setting for this button was/is 'Sleep'. So I would turn up for someone's lesson to find that the laptop's battery was run right down and I would then sympathise and try to explain this annoying state of affairs. Every Vista computer I meet now, I make sure I go into Control Panel and set the Start Menu power button to 'shut down'.
So the message got through to Microsoft, I'm pleased to see.
But I spent some time on my first Windows 7 experience looking for the resident mail client. It used to be Outlook Express and then Vista introduced Windows Mail which was very similar. But now you have to use Windows Live Mail on 7, which you can set up as a client. Took me some time to find out, though!
Anyone else got comments on Windows 7 - or anything else in the tutoring line?
Colin
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