Rookie

Beginner goofs. ‘Learn from my mistakes’ kind of stuff.

And I'm One of Them!

Whee! They’re all insane, over there on MM.org. And I’m one of them! It’s so cool, there are different places to hang out, from AD’s Castle to Rokan’s Tower to the Attic, and those smart-ass voices in my head are expected to have their own comments, I’ve even detailed them in the muse registry, and […]

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Gremlins In the Works

I blogged Tuesday, honest. But somehow, even though the thingy said it was saved and published, and I saw it there once, when I logged in today, it wasn’t there. Hmm. Anyway, it is there now. Or it was. I’m not sure what the gremlins are up to, but I will put a saucer of

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Time to Get Real

I’ve been reading the blog of C.J. Cherryh, an awesome writer I very much admire, though many of her books get too depressing for me. http://www.cherryh.com/www/progress.htm And I realized something I should have noticed a long time ago–no one, even good old can’t-help-but-be-upbeat me, wants to read about only the good times. So enough blather

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Web Rookie Stuff

It’s been a long time since I commented on the web rookie stuff, but I’ve just made a wonderful discovery I wanted to share. Now probably everyone will be laughing at me and wondering where I’ve been, but in case there’s someone out there who doesn’t know–Yahoo has a group called Freecycle, and there’s an

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The Wider World-Wide-Web

Well, we’ve done it–we moved from that warm, safe, stifling cocoon of AOL to the wide open web. With a cable modem, no less. So far it’s not too bad. I like news, but found it too depressing having CNN as my home page, so I made it CNN’s Science page, and I like it.

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Thirty -Three E-Mails Later…

Okay, this one goes under both themes, writing and web-rookie. Know what happens when you send more than one file attached to an e-mail? I found out yesterday. What happens, if you’re sending them to an older computer, is you get to send them again, one at a time. At least, if you’re me. Because

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Frustration, Revisited

Another long day of getting very little accomplished.  I’ve been to the technical help chat four times today, eight times total, and my mail center still doesn’t load right.  I deleted files as I was asked, it didn’t help.  I cleared text, fonts and graphics, didn’t help.  I uninstalled and reinstalled my ISP software, and

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