Help!

Quick question for those who know more about these things than I do...

A Firefox problem (on a Mac, if that makes any difference).

My computer's been misbehaving; I restarted, tried to open Firefox and it insisted I had to create a new profile.

But the old profile has all my bookmarks, saved passwords, etc etc etc in and I really, really don't want to have to go and dredge them all up again.

I can't seem to find anywhere to change profile to find the old one. Suggestions?

Update

Barcelona was fun. The weather could have been better, but at least I didn't get rained on. And I seem to have made my mum walk further than she has for years!

Saturday morning I went to the Miró museum at the top of the Montjuïc hill. As well as the Miró there was a temporary exhibition of Douglas Gordon installations. Not exactly my idea of good art normally, but I wound up going back to look at 'Through the looking glass' three times. It's a double projection of a 71 second clip of Robert de Niro's 'you talking to me?' speech from 'Taxi Driver' and it looks like he's talking to himself talking to himself (if you see what I mean). Very spooky. And reminded me a bit of the idiot ex. Hmmmmm.

After picking my mum up at the airport and abandoning her at the hotel, Saturday evening I went to the Nou Camp for Barcelona v Espanyol. My second-cheapest-price ticket set me back €58 (thank goodness I don't have to fork out that much every week to watch Wednesday being rubbish!). I was way up in the gods, but the view was still great (if a little distant) as the seats were vertiginous. Ronaldinho and Larsson were both playing, Barca won 2-0 and the team wearing blue-and-white stripes were a bit rubbish. It had rather skipped my mind that, having just won the championship and this being their final home game of the season, there would likely be a party. And, Brucie bonus, there was. Fireworks and everything.

Sunday we hopped on the train to Montserrat, where a monastery sits near the top of a mountain and funiculars head higher up. Great views, shame it was hazy rather than bright sunshine though. On Monday we went to La Sagrada Familia – isn't it amazing that Barcelona's biggest tourist attraction is still a building site? Makes for great photos, though, with scaffolding and building materials threaded through the realisation of Gaudí's mad scheme. I climbed up to the top of one of the towers, in the company of an attractive Frenchman I met in the queue – my mother doesn't do heights! The place is pretty impressive now, if they ever finish it it'll be astonishing. In more ways than one. Then up to Park Güell for more Gaudí insanity, a long walk through the woods, and finishing off watching a group of five little boys of about 7 having a kickabout – they clearly all wanted to be Ronaldinho.

Finally got home at 2am: it was always going to be fairly late as the flight was to Luton, but even though it was on time it took well over half-an-hour for them to get around to putting our bags out. No sign of the cat: dirty little stopout came home at 4am and made her Presence Known very loudly. Thanks, mog. I was actually asleep for once.

Of course I took bazillions of photos, the scaffolding in La Sagrada Familia was particularly photogenic. Here's one for starters...


And the fireworks were pretty, too!


More here

I'm now meant to be working but can't get my brain going. I've got a couple of people in the States I need to talk to, but that might prove difficult: on Sunday I lost my voice (I've already heard all the cracks about it being a great improvement!). It was completely missing for about 36 hours, and although it's now beginning to come back it's not exactly working properly so phone interviews could prove interesting.

And finally... I wrote stuff about the Barca game, and worked it together with the stuff from Espanyol. The whole thing is under the cut below, for completeness' sake. The new stuff is about half way down.

( Footy be here )