I was at home at the weekend. I didn't do much, other than watch my laptop break. It wasn't my fault (there is a first time for everything!) but I am extremely irritated because I need it for uni. Grrr...Hopefully tomorrow night I can get out to PC World and get it fixed as it seems to be a hardware rather than a software problem and the lappy is still under warranty.

I'm now desperately trying to cobble together two presentations for Friday. One is on the effectiveness of the UK farm-scale GM crop trials and the other is on cell surface receptors. The only problem is, nobody wants to talk about the UK crop trials, because they didn't work very well and they do not want to give too much information (locations etc.) away for fear of protesters. Helpful.

I just found the most wonderful Firefox extension yet. It replaces your stop button with...yes, you guessed it...a hammertime button. It's ace!

I need to study more and mess about less.

Nobody panic, I'm still here...

I've been at home for the past month or so, due partially to a massive mouse invasion (bed, wardrobe, bookshelves - you name it, they left droppings on/in it!). I don't use LJ at home and since I was commuting to work/uni I had no time anyway.

I've been back in Edinburgh for a while now, just getting everything back to rights in my room etc. and getting my head round uni. I missed Edinburgh, especially because I can arrange things at very short notice and don't have to answer to anyone before I do!

A quick round up of the exciting things I have done since my last update:

1. Turned 20 (not as fun as it sounds)
2. Met up with people from Glenalmond for drinks (more fun than it sounds)
3. Went to Uni
4. Went to work
5. Got my hair cut
6. Gained a cousin

It's so much fun being me. I lead such a great and exciting life.
This weekend I'm away with the whole family (Uncles, Aunts, Grandparents etc.) to celebrate my Granparents' 80th birthdays. I have an essay on Bird Flu* to write but thankfully I now have the Precious (shiny lappy!) to take with me and work on. I'm so cool.

*We're not all going to die, at least not this year, so stop bulk buying Tamiflu, it isn't a vaccine and is of limited use anyway. /rant

Apologies for the really cheesy title, just feeling a great sense of achievement.
I was getting really annoyed at having to check the several webmail accounts I have created over the past few years. I hate Outlook so I decided to have a go at installing Mozilla Thunderbird. It's brilliant! It was dead easy to set up in Gmail. Predictably Hotmail was a lot harder to configure since there is no way of setting up POP access to free Hotmail accounts from the account itself like you can do with Gmail. However, I downloaded Hotmail Popper and magically it all works!* At the click of a button all my emails from different places appear and can be sorted, replied to or deleted with the minimum of fuss. Thunderbird is to Outlook what Firefox is to IE. Just much, much better, easier and faster.

I wonder if you can get Thunderbird t-shirts...

*EDIT (00.15): Hotmail Popper would not work with my .co.uk account since I was not a "valued user". Freepops on the other hand has worked perfectly for everything.