I’m Still Here

Ha, well, it seems M$ dropped support for WLW last year, so that was a wasted few hours. There;s even a tutorial on installing it on Windows 10 from MS Essentials 2012 – from Stefan Strangers’ Weblog. but as it’s rather old the link to wlsetup-all.exe is dead, but packrat that I am I had it on my 4Tb external hard drive – well, it was inside the Essentials MSI package, but they’re simple to extract. Rather than link my exe, here’s one from the Internet Archive with that you can follow the instructions in Stefan’s blog or …
Do the sensible thing and use Open Live Writer it’s free, in the Microsoft Store and looks and feels just like WLW without the ability to overload it with a zillion plug-ins (yet – they left that option in the settings, so ??)

Here’s a screenshot of me writing this bollocks a second ago., I like it, and considering my absence, it feels familiar. Just noticed my last post about the Millennium Trilogy – a lot has changed there, eh? Sony felt OK to make the Emoji movie but were unwilling to give in to Daniel Craig’s demands? What did he want? Blood of their first-born? I got me some reading to catch-up on before I watch Spider’s Web anyway. Well, listening mostly – I’m giving my eyes a break with an Audible subscription. Coupled with Kindle Unlimited, I got me lots of books in my Audible Queue.
Right, enough for this decade, see you when I get bored of life again

Millennium

3am this morning the credits rolled on Hornets Nest, marking the end of my book, film, film, book, film, book, film marathon of previous weeks.

I feel kind of empty inside now, no longer having my friends Lisbeth, Mikael, et al. I’ll soon find new friends, once I become engrossed in another book, but this series was an emotional roller coaster. No doubt I’ll also be revisiting the films too: far too good to stay away from, plus they’re a great source for learning Swedish. Fitta!

One thing I have to say is about the actors in the Swedish and American versions. Overall, both are well written and the acting is fantastic. However, I prefer Michael/Noomi to Daniel/Rooney., but if Blomkvist got as much action on screen as he did in the books, James Bond would be a tad more believable, though Mr Nyqvist does have a certain rugged charm, and fits the general description of Blomkvist in the books, IMO. I just feel Daniel Craig’s looks would get the ladies into bed just as fast as they jump in the books. But both Sweden and America decided not to complicate things by including his other partners, and concentrated on Lisbeth, which is an essential occurrence in light of their future relationship (Kalle-fucking-Blomkvist) and how they ultimately ended up at her door, even though the film and book differ on that; hello? where were the bagels?

OK. My hand is hurting now – I’m one finger typing MS sucks.

TTFN