"... t used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. It may be doubted whether it is always or even generally a disadvantage. The man who is misunderstood has always this advantage over his enemies, that they do not know his weak point or his plan of campaign. They go out against a bird with nets and against a fish with arrows." --G. K. Chesterton, Heretics , 1905 If there is any better explanation
In doing some clean up of my home computer area, I found something that I had forgotten. It is a Power Point show of some 100 of the best military photographs from WWI to Vietnam. It circulated on the network where I was employed, but since they were pretty strict about personal use, I never had the courage to send it out to friends and family, lest I get a session with my boss. He ws death on wasting time on computers and insisted that all of the c
Santiago-- I gave your method a try. It was a no go. You can click the "read only" on, but not off. Well, you can click the box off, but then word won't let you do anything with it. You get an error message. It appears that even though you click the read only off, word remembers that it is a read only file. When I got to thinking about it, I realized that this would have to be, for security
Your remarks about Minnessota and the paucity of blacks, made me remember a story my phsyc 101 professor told of of a study done at the University of Iowa. In this study, high school students were given a test which was designed to measure their attitudes toward Negro's (Sorry, that was the polite term back then--1960). The tests showed that these students's negative stereotypes were as high as any in Mississippi. Yet most of them had never met an
That's what I have been doing ll day. The problem is that any files downloaded by the method you cite are in Read Only format when retrieved. That is okay for music or pictures and such, but I am trying to archive document files that may need to be editied or otherwise changed.
Thank God. An oasis in the desert. I am using standard XP Home Edition software. No extras. Except for a direct cd to cd copy now and then, I have never "burned." Up to now I have always had a one-lung dial-up. Only upgraded to DSL three weeks ago. I am partially deaf, so music doesn't do my any good. And As I said, I am using what came with the computer (Gateway). Thanks for responding so quickly.
How in the pluperfect hades do I get a RW CD to format so I can use it for Word files? I have been at it since 11:00 this morning. Every time I put an Office Suite file ( Word, Excel, etc. ) on a CD for archiving, when I call it up it comes back Read Only format. What the heck is happening. I seem to recall from days long gone that when a blank CD went into the reader, It would tell me that the CD was unformated and give me the option to
Last evening I visited an old friend on the web. My friend's name is the Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce. The dictionary is always good for a laugh. But it also contains a wealth of social commentary. Moreover, though it was written around the turn of the century, many of the entries are appropos for today. In fact, there are many entries where you can't te
This crap is as inane and puerile as the stuff 14-year-olds post on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer form.
People today often look back over their lives and marvel at the amount of change they have seen. Typewriters to word processors. Adding machines to calculators. Piston airplanes to SST's. Black-and-while movies to Pixar. Ten inch TV's to maximum mega-screen digital dolby sound home enertainment. Sometimes the older of us even regret losing things of the past th
Right now I am reading G. K. Chesterton. He wrote the Father Brown mystery series (which I have never read) but was also a poet and wrote extensively. on relgion and philosophy. My current reading is Heretics written in 1905. What amazes me is the number of points he makes that still apply a hundred years later. Some examples: "In the glad old days...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misundrstood. It may be doubted whether
I finally retired last January. After flurry of activity to catch up with all the projects that I promised I would do as soon as I retired (How was I to know that my wife actually kept a list!) things have started to slow down and I have some time to take stock and do some reading and thinking that I never seemed to have time to do when I was doing my 40-plus hours every week.
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