Rantings of a red head - Dolidh (Doll-ee)
The not-quite-wisdom and rantings of a Wee Scottish Woman. Web designer with Kenkai Projects Ltd based in Falkirk, Scotland. Occasionally acts or sings on demand.
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
A Dolidhfied FAQ on Joining and Starting Hangouts
Saturday, December 03, 2011
Paypal are doing a wishlist competition!
*When you wish upon a star*
Monday, November 07, 2011
The Amazing Weekend of Birthday Awesome-sauce!
It all pretty much started on Friday.... I had pressies at breakfast, the beautiful flowers from a client (Ta Gemma! xx) and tea Kai and Kennie in the office made for me in near constant supply while I was at work.
Friday evening started off by getting ready to go out, then popping onto hangouts to say hi (I did promise!)
Of which, the guys basically had a mini party and let me take over the hangout -
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103038287804535196503/
I then headed on out to Stirling, meeting up with some of my best friends in the Kilted Kangaroo (that's the
place in the piccy) and then onto a club/pub called Cult. I managed to borrow my friends iPhone4 and jump
onto a hangout... thus, this happened: https://plus.google.com/u/0/103038287804535196503/
We had an amazing night, ending up stargazing up by Stirling Castle before being run home by my very, very
generous and amazing big brother Andrew. Unfortunately, Kai broke his iPhone... booo!
So... that was the actual birthday... Saturday ended up with Kai and I running around Falkirk trying to find
me a new pair of shoes (since I managed to maim my good boots the night before) and then heading through to
Haddington... I've done a super-short vlog on youtube to thank people for the brilliant messages.
We went out for dinner and had a fabulous time (apart from trying to break in the new shoes)... we enjoyed
watching the fireworks on the way home (Nov 5th is Bonfire Night - AKA Guy Fawkes night. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night )
Sunday consisted of being fed an enormous breakfast by Kai's step-dad Chris (which was amazing, thanks Chris!) driving back home and then visiting my mum... organising what's happening at Christmas! (huzzah! I love Chrimbo!) Saw my brother, Sis-in-law and two beautiful nieces while I was out at Mums... My brother Andrew said he had the kit to fix Kai's phone, so we got it off him and fixed Kai's phone! Yey!
We went off and saw In Time at the cinema... a couple of hours of very good entertainment (I thought the idea of it was so clever)
Then headed back and watched Misfits on Channel 4 and something else while I attempted to shove up that video on youtube for you...
But thanks again everyone for being a fairly chunky part of my birthdayness! xx
The Amazing Weekend of Birthday Awesome-sauce!
It all pretty much started on Friday.... I had pressies at breakfast, the beautiful flowers from a client (Ta Gemma! xx) and tea Kai and Kennie in the office made for me in near constant supply while I was at work.
Friday evening started off by getting ready to go out, then popping onto hangouts to say hi (I did promise!)
Of which, the guys basically had a mini party and let me take over the hangout -
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103038287804535196503/
I then headed on out to Stirling, meeting up with some of my best friends in the Kilted Kangaroo (that's the
place in the piccy) and then onto a club/pub called Cult. I managed to borrow my friends iPhone4 and jump
onto a hangout... thus, this happened: https://plus.google.com/u/0/103038287804535196503/
We had an amazing night, ending up stargazing up by Stirling Castle before being run home by my very, very
generous and amazing big brother Andrew. Unfortunately, Kai broke his iPhone... booo!
So... that was the actual birthday... Saturday ended up with Kai and I running around Falkirk trying to find
me a new pair of shoes (since I managed to maim my good boots the night before) and then heading through to
Haddington... I've done a super-short vlog on youtube to thank people for the brilliant messages.
We went out for dinner and had a fabulous time (apart from trying to break in the new shoes)... we enjoyed
watching the fireworks on the way home (Nov 5th is Bonfire Night - AKA Guy Fawkes night. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night )
Sunday consisted of being fed an enormous breakfast by Kai's step-dad Chris (which was amazing, thanks Chris!) driving back home and then visiting my mum... organising what's happening at Christmas! (huzzah! I love Chrimbo!) Saw my brother, Sis-in-law and two beautiful nieces while I was out at Mums... My brother Andrew said he had the kit to fix Kai's phone, so we got it off him and fixed Kai's phone!Yey!
We went off and saw In Time at the cinema... a couple of hours of very good entertainment (I thought the idea of it was so clever)
Then headed back and watched Misfits on Channel 4 and something else while I attempted to shove up that video on youtube for you...
But thanks again everyone for being a fairly chunky part of my birthdayness! xx
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Farewell IT Crowd, swimmy swimmy and sleepy pups
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-1
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lix9h
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I managed to do 52 lengths of the local pool... hooray! Personal best! That's 1300 metres!
I ended up popping in to do an impromptu Cyber-couch hangout with KOMU news in Missouri together with some lovely people, +Chad LaFarge , +Kim Beasley , +Seth Goldstein
To get in the spirit of all things sleepy last night, I posted a piccy of a sleepy puppy (Fred, our bull-boxer when he was a pup) on G+
Friday, October 21, 2011
YouTube goodness!
They've been making it easier to share! *Squee!*
Popping onto your own liked videos, there's a Share on your Liked list.... Click on it and you can not only link to it, you can share on facebook, twitter and G+... click on the show more and there's things like Orkut, Blogger, Tumblr, StumbleUpon, Bebo, Digg and Myspace.
Sweet!
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Something not to watch late at night
Shwim shwim shwim!
I managed to do 32 lengths of the pool… that’s 850 metres!!! **Squee!!!**
Do any of you guys go swimming regularly? I’m going to try the silicone web things on my hands to see if I can easy how tense my hands get and stop them cramping… I’ll post pics when I get them… maybe I should incorporate them into some sort of halloween costume… lol. They do look a bit freaky!
I didn’t even get the chance to take a piccy of my number of circles on google+ when they were the year of my birth, as quite a few of my friends have been doing… those guys swamped me before I got back from swimming! Over 2000 people following! My word!
Friday, September 23, 2011
Facebook New Lookness and google+ circleness
OK, so I've had a little play around with the Developer App and been one of the lucky monkeys to see my new profile before they're launched properly.
I think the new profile is quite nice to look at, but super busy... which I suppose suits the facebook followers anyway who're hungrily looking for information on you.
I kinda like the double column thing and viewing images within the timeline lets me stay interested like a little kid.
Youtube preview image opens up to an embedded youtube video, just like on G+ - so it does the job.I just really like the clean look at G+ though. Facebook is a bit cluttered, but I know so many people on there. Also, there are so many people on facebook that I knew and no-longer care to know well and chat to constantly... kinda like holding someone at arms length. I think Facebook will kinda stay that way for me really.
It's ok G+ *hugs* I ain't going anywhere... After all, I seem to be gaining more an more circlers... people circling me. Maybe people are actually wanting to see what I post or when I originally posted, I posted to Extended Circles since I really didn't have a clue...
There's a couple other ways so far to find new people, like getting listed in one of the G+ directories or maybe someone's just going on one of my friends and clicking on the View All >> on their who's circled and following everyone on there... that sounds a bit laborious. Loads of folk online have been wondering about it... I'll make a proper post when I can be bothered.. make it shiny with pictures! It's unlikely I'll get in the suggestions box any time soon. Really, I need to figure out how they're giving these suggestions before I do a post... some are obvious, cos there's already a mutual relationship there or postings are similar... I wonder if they work it out from the stuff on the about page. *ponders*