We gots the Swine Flu 
We found an injured bird
Our car needs around £500 of repair work done
[Picture of car here if I had one to hand]
It has not been a good week.
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So, after two weeks of house hunting we found a lovely house, arranged to put ours on the market and then promptly changed our minds. Why? We heard some bad things both about the area the house was in and the people who were selling it. I also cross-checked the former piece of information with another estate agent who backed it up so we’re staying put. For now.
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- The Google Street View peg person has got a spacesuit on! #
- RT @aas: Browser speed comparison – N86, N97, iPhone 3G, T-Mobile G1 and more http://bit.ly/3tsf0f #
- Feeling like crap #
- Evernote makes keeping track of all this house buying and selling paperwork and note taking a whole lot easier. #
- Hmm, have been told by two separate Estate Agents now that the house we're interested in isn't in a good area when it comes to selling #
- Best Google logo ever: http://ping.fm/vBGpc #
- Swine Flue site rendering fail (Safari on the left, Firefox on the right) http://skitch.com/t/wab #
- "Control system for exhaust"? Bugger. #
- What is this glowing ball in the sky? I'm sure I've seen it before… #
- http://mobypicture.com/?xo9a0c #
- After all the house-hunting fun, am now starting on the car-hunting fun as I fear our car may be about to cost us an arm and a leg… #
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Evernote is awesome. I first tried it out last month post wedding (I realise now it really would have helped quite a lot prior to the event, d’oh!) when planning the Fortnight of Fun shenanigans. Since then it’s proved invaluable when looking at houses and obtaining valuations and keeping all the data in one place easily accessible from home, work and on my phone (if only there were an S60 version…)
My favourite aspect is the OCR style word recognition in images, as I have no scanner I’ve resorted to taking photos of the estate agent letters and emailing them direct to Evernote. As part of the process the Evernote server looks through the image for any text and makes it searchable like this:
Which means I can happily toss the paper copies. I’m very tempted to get a Fujitsu ScanSnap and scan in all my paperwork and bin the non-essential stuff.
I’ve now abandoned post-it notes at work and am using solely Evernote for all my note taking and task lists.
The Beetle Bugs playgroup is run from the Belvedere Centre on Belvoir Street every Wednesday from 9.30am to 11.30am (including over the Summer Holidays if the demand is there). Your entry fee of £1.50 will get you a cup of tea and a biscuit for you and a healthy snack and a drink for your little one(s) along with a group activity of some variety post snack.
This has been a public service announcement.
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- Mortgages are fun! #
- Bee: "You can't see my toes – they're a special treat." #
- Ditched my crummy new work phone (Nokia 3109 Classic) for my reliable old SonyEricsson W810i. Much better. #
- Dear Miri. It's time for sleep now. Please stop being silly. #
- Evernote is the greatest thing ever! #
- A night off house buying things! Instead I returned borrowed items to their rightful owners and had ice cream. It's crazy round these parts. #
- Playing around with MWS http://jaytay.mymobilesite.net/ – A web site served from my phone. #
- Mortgage broker seen so now we know what our target house prices are. Hooray! #
- Three house viewings today including one on Hemming Way – best road name I've heard so far. #
- Hemming Way house was lovely and has us very tempted… #
- Support I'm a Mac!, add a #twibbon to your avatar now! – http://twibbon.com/join/Im-a-Mac #
- Ugh. #
- That's some good napping. #
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