This was worth doing - my computer feels so much happier now - but oh, the terror I had during installation! My new RAM and my old RAM disliked each other, and I had blue screen after blue screen on my first restart. I’m now running with only the new RAM, and kind of unsure that I haven’t damaged it. So, um, warning to those planning to do this: be really careful about buying and installing!
phoenixdreaming's Life List
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1. stop procrastinating
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2. learn to make jewellery
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3. To live instead of exist
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4. make my own clothes
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5. see the northern lights
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6. start eating properly
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7. find work I'm passionate about
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8. share more of myself with others
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9. complete ADoM
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10. find my own sense of style
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11. be beautiful on the inside
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12. get a First
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13. learn python
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14. cut my hair short
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15. learn Adobe Photoshop
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16. Learn to use Painter IX
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Yesterday I wrote some plan-notes for an RSS reader in Python. I need some project to focus my learning of Python, and I use RSS a lot, fairly idiosyncratically, and no RSS reader really suits me enough that I’m happy with it. So, what better way to stretch my Pythoning abilities? Let’s see how it goes.
I’ve been reading the book “Learning Python” from O’Reilly, and well, I’d almost learn Python just for the sake of using this book for it; it’s the first computer book I’ve read in years that I’ve really been interested by. Python itself is fascinating; I love that I’ve already been able to write actual useful programs for a few random small tasks I wanted to automate. Programming languages haven’t been this useful to me since back in the days when I used Basic on 80s computers.
