Notice
Mar 10 2011
For those of us who once used pencil and paper but can now use the internet, we can change from Senior Citizens to "Silver Surfers" and from Michael Abbott these gems:
YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2011 when...
1. You accidentally enter your PIN on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your mobile phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen
8. Leaving the house without your mobile phone, which you didn't even have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )
12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.
14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list.
And we do know of a couple who live in a large house and use their mobiles to find each other - True
Lots of talk and news lately about malware being on mobile phones stealing your address books etc - beware of some Android Apps.
For those Joomla Students - I have finally got Joomla 1.6 to work - Very impressed with changes but frustrating - Email me if you need any help
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Two programs I found useful this week - Clip Cube for keeping multiple items on the clipboard from
www.chillgeeks.com an interesting site.
and a free lightweight photo editor with many features Phoxo - www.phoxo.com
Last but not least - Would you write your friends' phone numbers on the walls of public places?
If you answer no, then why would you spread their E-mail addresses to a bunch of strangers, many of whom will in turn forward the same addresses to even more strangers? Don't do it! Instead, use the BCC feature of your E-mail program.
BCC means Blind Carbon Copy. It is a way of addressing mail to more than one person so that everyone's address is not displayed for all to see. Every E-mail program, even free, web-based E-mail services, allow you to address messages using BCC, in other words, to "BCC" one or more recipients. Some require that you provide at least ONE address in the TO: field. If this is the case, place YOUR OWN address in the TO: field and all your recipients' addresses on the BCC field.
Why do this?
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Using BCC protects your recipients' E-mail addresses from being spread to strangers.
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Using BCC helps prevent SPAM (Unsolicited Commercial E-mail)
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When using BCC, messages will be easier on your readers because they will be smaller, with fewer addresses on each message. They will even download faster.
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Using BCC shows your consideration of others by not publishing hundreds of your friends' addresses to strangers and potentially, SPAMMERS or maybe even stalkers.
Off to The Inverloch Jazz Festival
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