Ha ha! Technology, I win!

As you can see I got there in the end with the phone photos. This is me with a Stormtrooper at the O2 on Friday night. Mr Stormtrooper is aiming his blaster at Chris who is taking the photo. This is because Chris was having a spot of bother with my phone camera, hence the blurry picture. But hey, it's yours truly with a Stormtrooper nonetheless.

I've been to many a venue for gigs and concerts over the years but I have to say that I was really taken aback by how amazing the O2 is. It's absolutely ginormously big and such a bright and lively place. In fact, like some kind of old person, I actually described it as 'happening' which made Chris laugh and he told me that I should write all about the 'Happening O2 Place' on my blog.

I'm still in the process of sorting out my laptop. I've just put iTunes on it (it used to be on the desktop PC) and now Sirius (my iPod) has a severe lack of music until I import my library. I've got all the purchased music but none of the hundreds of tunes from my CD collection. Why oh why am I even boring you with this ..... ?

I'm going to go and see if I can get the camera to behave now. May well be back soon!

Technology hates me right now

So did you have a good Easter?

I had a nice weekend off and Star Wars : A Musical Journey was amazing - like truly astounding. I do have photos but the techno-trauma continues and my phone software has decided to act up so I can't actually get the pictures off the phone. I'll try again tomorrow. Also, I did have some bead pictures for you but my camera batteries are flat and I have no charged ones so I'm waiting for the charger to do its thing.

I'm off to knit a sock .....

Easter Giveaway Winner

I've just this minute done the draw for the egg pendant and the winner is Anita! Well done to you - please email me with your address and I'll get your prize in the post. Thanks to all who entered the draw. There will be another one soon.

Fabulous news on the Sonya front! I think she's better. I'm very virus-paranoid now and have run about seven scans today but so far so good. Phew - she really had me worried there!

Oh Dear

I am currently experiencing major techo-trauma.

My beautiful pink Sony Vaio laptop, Sonya, is very sick. It would appear that she has a nasty virus. Said virus hacked into my website and added some nasty code to every page that made my site dirty and scary to anti virus software. A few people emailed me telling me they were getting pop-ups and warning bars when they visited my website. After a couple of days of speaking with my hosting company they tracked down the malicious code and yesterday I removed it from every page of my site making Beads By Laura clean, shiny and user-friendly again. So that's a good thing.

But .....

I decided to format Sonya to make sure that any virus she had was obliterated. After that I ran my anti virus and it found a horrid evil Trojan so at 1am this morning I was trying to put things right. This morning everything appeared to be well but when I tried to install Windows service pack three (I'm still on XP - I don't like Vista!) it didn't want to play ball. I'm having another go (this makes attempt number five) and I shall see what happens.

Problem is, my desktop PC broke about four weeks ago so my only computer is Sonya. I hope I can make her better. Without a computer I'm in trouble.

So this post is to tell you that I'm unable to update the website at the moment. The Strawberry Ice Cream beads are sold. The Vanilla ones are currently available. If you'd like them, please email me or leave me a comment.

I'll be back later to tell you how Sonya's doing. Please keep your fingers crossed for her.