Now that my C drive is no longer 100% used (apparently that's scary, and should never ever happen - I had exactly 29 KB left and it didn't crash!) I've installed a webcam.
Webcam, Digital Camera, Broadband and my Portable Hard Disk (aka MP3 Player) all need a USB port. I have two. I need at least three, better even, four.
1. I need a USB hub.
You think you've bought it all and there's always something else you need.
I also have a negative scanner to digitalise all my photos. In a previous life, my ambition was to become a photographer, but I was scared off by the prospect of having to do studio shots of married couples, babies, first communion and other dressing up situations. Even then, I was more into landscapes than people (purely in photographic terms of course). Dreams may not always come true or rather come true in a different incarnation, and I still adore photography and will ban anything on film or memory stick until battery, film or the megabytes run out. Now I'm all excited about digging up all my negatives (and I still do SLR - not totally gone digi yet) and scanning them, it will take me years I'm sure. So many steps to get started though: thanks to ebay, I paid 1/10 of the normal price for a great scanner, second hand and a few parts missing. Then I had to get the missing parts. Next, a SCSI card. A hard drive. Somehow the cable doesn't seem to fit into the SCSI card and looks ominuously like a printer cable. Could it be that the cable I have connects the scanner to the printer, while the SCSI cable is missing? They all look so similar really, and I'm approaching the age where it gets difficult taking all the new technology in. Even if you think computers are the greates thing ever.
2. I think I need a SCSI cable.
3. I need to talk sweetly to my beloved to install my new hard drive. And give me a spare connecting thingybob to connect hard drive to my computer.
I also tried to setup my webcam so I can video skype, but then found out that it takes Windows XP to do so. I really don't want Windows XP. I mean, I bought the bloody thing to do video skype, and now it doesn't work! Not happy. So either:
4. I need Windows XP or the skype people have to respond to my suggestion to make video available for Windows 2000 too, or I have to figure out how MSN Messenger works. Or maybe someone has an idea how to combine video and skype on the ancient, yet trustworthy Windows 2000?
Of course I also need a holiday, sunshine, the perfect honeymoon destination, a haircut and a massage, but won't go into that. If you have a suggestion for honeymoon destinations, let me know. Or if you know about video skyping. Or about negative scanners.
And I know the colour is daft, but I like violet.