Kate: Re: Stormy Christmas!

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Hi Kate,Sounds like an interesting game! We'll be looking for it.Yes, the Time Capsule from Apple is a combined wireless router and a hard drive for automatic backup of your data. But I suppose the name is inspired by those leave historical information behind things, because in a way that's what you do. Apart from creating a wireless network in your house, it also makes automatic backups (copies) of your computers, so you can go back and find the information later, when it's gone from the computer. A real neat machine, if it wasn't for the fact that it currently dies after about 18-19 months. I expect something I pay that kind of money for (400-500 USD) to last a little longer than that. We did buy the new wireless router yesterday, and made a real bargain. In the first store we couldn't quite agree because wanted the cheapest one (at 400 SEK ≈ 58 USD), I said I just didn't trust it to work well with our computers etc, and was more interested in one that cost 700 SEK (≈ 100 USD). said that if we were gonna spend that kind of money, we might as well get one of those Airport Express things from Apple (it's their wireless routers, but without the backup functionality). I said that I agreed on that, but since they didn't have those at that store, we might want to have a look in another store.We went to another store, and found the same router I was looking at in the first store, but at less than half the price, and even 25% cheaper than the low price one had been looking at. It cost 300 SEK (≈ 43 USD). I said: "With the model and functionality I want, and a price even lower than the low price one you were rooting for, I suppose we are in agreement" ;-)Installing it was real painless, and it works beautifully with both our computers, and with our iPhone and iPod too. And you couldn't argue with the price tag either... So we are very pleased with it. We haven't bought an external hard drive for the backups yet, but that could wait. We do the real important backups, work related etc, on flash drives and on discs, anyway. love/Reb> > > > From: Reb D reb_41se@> > Subject: Stormy Christmas!> > To: MSersLife > > Date: Tuesday, December 27, 2011, 1:22 PM> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >  > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We've had a windy Christmas in Scandinavia! But apart from not getting much in the way of cell phone and/or internet coverage, we were absolutely fine, Norway, the north half of Sweden and, I think, Finland were so much worse off (electricity out, traffic stopping, roofs blowing apart, that kinds of things...). So we are most certainly not complaining! It is, however, an explanation of why I've been missing in action here. > > Talking about windy, we heard a humorous Norwegian song on TV, using the expression "full hurricane". Don't know if that's an expression in English, but it would be the literal translation of the expression in Norwegian, and Swedish, meaning when a storm reaches hurricane strength of wind (according to some scale or other). However, and this was the basis for the pun in the lyrics, the word "full" is in the Scandinavian languages not only the word for, precisely, full, but is also the word for "drunk". > > The lyrics went something like (in translation): "No use trying to stop a hurricane when it's drunk, it'll rip apart the city as it pleases. But in the morning it will lay down, and feel remorse for what it's done."> > OK, probably funnier in Norwegian/Swedish, but anyway....> > Here's hoping you'll be spared from a hurricane that is drunk! ;-)> > love/Reb> >>