Sunday, April 16, 2006

Impressed

Today, I am impressed. Three years ago I went offline. This was in response to that fact that I spent far too many hours researching for my lessons, at dial up speed. I decided not to let this time interfere with the rest of what I like to do and decided to use the school, staying later, but still not spending as many hours doing the same things. My computer sat for those years, collecting dust, being moved from one house to another and generally being neglected. Despite needing a good file cleaning and MS Internet Explorer being outdated, it has operated flawlessly. DSL is now available to me making my research a much more efficient process. Today I attempted my first printing on an old cheap Canon printer. To my surprise, the ink cartridges worked! I'd never have guessed that these would sit for soooo long and not dry up. I have color and good draft quality which is nice because I'm still the type that likes to have a hard copy to carry around with me, and use a writing stick to make comments and changes.
Some things never cease to amaze me.
mark

2 comments:

Linda said...

I can appreciate the dial up comment. I had dial up and was trying to completely rebuild the web site for my husband's school. One folder took 8 hours to download. That was the breaking point!!! If he wanted my help I needed a faster connection, I got it pretty quick! I have had either DSL or cable connections since and couldn't live without it with all the tech work and web work I do!!

Glad to hear you now have a faster connection and that your machine is working well.
Linda

Linda said...

Mark:
In reply to your question on my blog about links I am not sure if I can help, but I will try. I also copy and paste from Word, but I make sure my links are live there. When you highlight the URL on the web site and then copy it in to Word hit the space bar and it should auto-underline to make it live. Then when you copy and paste into your blog it should show as a live link when we view it (it won't show where you are working, that got me at first and I tried to fix it and it wasn't broken).
Hope this helps a bit.
Linda