I have created a photo blog to post about one photo every day You are invited to take a look and comment: http://al-farrob.blogspot.com/ I invite you to see my 16 photographs, as always: http://www.al-farrob.com -- al-Farrob "One photo every day" http://al-farrob.blogspot.com/ "16 photographs by al-Farrob" http://www.al-farrob.com
I have created a photo blog to post about one photo every day Can someone advise us computer illiterates (I've only got 30 years in the industry under my belt) what is a "blog"? Keith
Google is your friend. http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&lr=&oi=defmore&q=define:Blog Wikapedia is your friend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog 30 years, you sweep the floors?
An online journal. Short for "Web Log". http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&newwindow=1&safe=off&oi=defmore&q=define:Blog
Well, somebody have already told you. When I was 20, 30 years ago, many words I hear nowadays did not exist yet, so I understand your probblem. You are luckier than I was, because you have people ready to be useful Thank you very much -- al-Farrob "al-Farrob's one photo every day" http://al-farrob.blogspot.com "16 photographs by al-Farrob" http://www.al-farrob.com
30 years, you sweep the floors? I have often found it problematic that when people hear that you are in the computer industry it is automatically assumed that you know everything there is to know about computers. "You must be an expert - can you fix my computer it's doing x, y z..." Well no. That's not what I do. I write Windows software. There's little I couldn't tell you about Visual C++, the windows API or COM, but when it comes to configuring your network or using newsgroups, I am probably more in the dark than your average teenage geek. Keith
While that is commendable Keith you perhaps should RTFM, in this case Google and Wikepedia really are the manual, you need to learn how to use them. Cheers. ..
While that is commendable Keith you perhaps should RTFM, in this case GoogleOh I am well aquainted with using Google. If I do a search on just "blog" I get 137 million hits. How many of these actually define the term and how many assume I know its meaning and want to give me other information, I don't know. Life is too short to find out. Sometimes its easier just to ask, and talking to humans is frequently more entertaining. Keith
OK, I conceded that a more refined search did yield an answer, but whilst it may be possible to find the answer on Google, I don't see that it should be mandatory. I tend to treat newsgroup exchanges as casual conversations and it's much less hassle just to ask questions as and when they come to mind.
Keith, My take on things is that your comment about "I've only been in the industry for 20 years" (or similar) is what caused a more inflammatory response than would otherwise have been warranted had we assumed you were new to computing. Cheers..
Just a note for future reference, if you or anyone else here is not aware, if you are looking for a word definition, enter into the Google searce bar: define: followed by the word you want the definition for. It this particular case you would use: define: blog Just another one of the neat things Google does. Note that I am not trying to be sarcastic of infamatory here, I've been using computers and the web for a long time myself, and just learned about this a month or so ago. Other cool Google stuff here: http://www.google.com/help/features.html Hope that helps, AL A.
My take on things is that your comment about "I've only been in the industrycomputing. Point taken. My excuse is that it is uncommonly warm for the time of year, I had a particularly tricky software bug to fix and was feeling grouchy yesterday. My apologies to anyone who felt inflamed. Keith
Thats okay, I was being a bit of a wanker anyway. ;-) I hate the term myself and think its use should be criminalised. .
