Category Archives: TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY: Fiddlin’ Again

Posted on December 19, 2003 by Susan

Nobody noticed that for the last few days every one of my posts was dated and timed exactly the same–all the way through October in the archives. Well I found the proper string of code and fixed it yesterday. Thank … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Not for the Squeamish

Posted on December 9, 2003 by Susan

First go here, check out “ONLINE GIZMO OF THE MONTH Eye Prodding”, then go here. Just do as I say. Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY & BLOGGING: Linking Loop

Posted on December 9, 2003 by Susan

If there is a better way to make my morning rounds, please do share it with me. With all the lovely and important links listed here on Spinning, I use instead my bookmarked list because it eliminates the need to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: html tags

Posted on December 7, 2003 by Susan

Remember all the frantic fixing of this blog I was doing early one morning this past week–after I messed with the settings? Well, I just noticed that I’ve since lost the time tags on the postings. Now I know that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Learning Methods

Posted on December 5, 2003 by Susan

Well, early morning readers were treated to my version of a flash media show as for three quarters of an hour I frantically created new templates, changed colors of all three sections of Spinning, switched size and color of type … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Computer Guts

Posted on December 4, 2003 by Susan

Sometimes I enjoy working with my hands more than my mind, and maybe it’s just to give the top half of me a break. On Monday I worked a couple hours at a daycare center in Bridgeport adding memory ram, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Games

Posted on November 30, 2003 by Susan

Finally figured out why I still spend mental downtime in Freecell or Tiles rather than Anchorhead or other Interactive Fiction. Basically it’s because IF requires two hands on the keyboard, and Freecell and the like require one hand and a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Icons

Posted on November 25, 2003 by Susan

Global marketing and consumerism has led to the sometimes rather annoying little pictures you find in cars, stores, everywhere and even on the monitor in a cost effective method of using international symbols as a language. Most work well, but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY & TECHNOLOGY: Mysteriously Linked

Posted on November 22, 2003 by Susan

Very strange happenings here and I’ve noticed it for a couple days now, but I’ve just had to face them as fact this morning. Both an entire folder from my Outlook Express Inbox and an entire load of clean laundry … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Til Death do us Part…

Posted on November 21, 2003 by Susan

My days are tortured with the pull of my computers, and yet I’ve located every area of my life where I need more. In the car, the shower, a special glow in the dark keyboard right by the bed at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Blogging and Trackback

Posted on November 17, 2003 by Susan

I spent quite a bit of this morning’s greyness with the shades drawn and hopping back between computer stations and the various peripherals following wires, fixing, screwing up, and trying to get everything back in order. One look behind the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Computer Guts

Posted on November 12, 2003 by Susan

Oh yes, procrastination has paid off big time. My room is littered now with two full working systems, two dead towers, one working monitor and bags of parts. Today UPS hath delivered the killing blow: a new printer so that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: My Voice!

Posted on November 5, 2003 by Susan

Thanks to Professor Dennis Jerz at Jerz’s Literacy Log I at long last have found a suitable substitute for my missing voice. Check this out: Automatic Attitude Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: And Writing

Posted on October 29, 2003 by Susan

Not all technology is good. It is impossible to seize the moment of inspiration and run from the bathroom sink to the computer and start typing with a battery-powered toothbrush held in your mouth. Continue reading →

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Technology: Parts

Posted on October 26, 2003 by Susan

…and also on that list of things to do today: Order (4) memory; Case Fan (?); Power supply. I know that this isn’t a reading/writing related issue, but without computers, where would writers be? So, I feel justified in asking … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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