Internet Up and Running ... Now onto...

Well my internet access is up and running fine. All things great now. Even switched over files and passwords etc. about my various memberships.

Great, but good always tempers bad, I have had to order a new graphics software as Windows Vista isn't compatible with my previous version of Paint Shop Pro. After checking around purchasing a new version of PSP was the cheaper alternative to use with Vista. As I have several gigs worth of PSP graphics I needed a program which could use the .psp/.pspimage format as well as use it to continue creating my own graphics from my many memberships.

I found several sites (including at least one membership site) that have disappeared completely since I last dabbled in my pixelling.

I have puchased a new copy of the latest Paint Shop Pro program which should arrive tomorrow (fingers crossed) and I can return to doing some new pixelling without worrying about lack of harddrive space or slower running programs. A problem which has cursed me for the last year or so with my laptop.

Also apparantly the boxed version I ordered from Amazon also includes a 2GB usb flash drive with it. So it will be handy for saving all my current pixel graphics on and keeps them off my main hard drive.

I found I had 4 to 5 Gigs of graphics content to move from my old laptop to my external hard drive. Between my downloaded content from my current (and past) memberships and my own graphics. Some completed and a lot in progress.

So, that said I hope to get back to pixelling soon. It should be a nice change, I've been using a touchpad on my laptop for months so it will take time to get used to using a mouse again. I still find myself reaching for touchpad when surfing the web or going to access programs/files on my hard drive. It's an automatic thing, I didn't realise how used I was to using the touchpad until I found myself reaching out to do so when surfing the web this last week.

It's strange how used you get to somethings, I didn't realise it myself, until I reach out on auto pilot to move a page down or something and realise there is no touchpad and I have to reach over to my mouse instead. It does seem to take a concentrated effort.

Well that's all for now. I'll just sign off here.