You are, as usual, obliging and wonderful. On a related note there, I'm planning on sending you some weaponized Holmes parents to read over later today. I think I'm hitting the right notes, but a second opinion would be lovely at this point.
I constantly bemoan my lack of internet savvy, and this is all connected with the wider issue of my being technologically incompetent. The problem with asking for help comes on two levels. One - the things I'm trying to do are pretty simple. Two - half the time things don't work because I'm genuinely doing something wrong, and the other half the computer is displaying its ability to make me look like an idiot when I drag someone else over to watch my computer produce a unicorn made of marshmallows, rainbows, and puppies - which I swear it just did five minutes ago! grrrr. I swear to you, I don't know if I'm more surprised when something works or when it doesn't work.
So with the lemon's journal yesterday I was planning to tidy up the 'look up your citrus' sticky post because the list was getting pretty long and I wanted to use some cuts to tidy it up. I haven't been able to successfully insert web links in html - see? simple. I really should be able to figure that out - so I was using rich text and put the cuts in accordingly, no problem, easy peasy. Save. facepalm. Entry looks the same except now there are empty lines displaying where I inserted cuts.
"Why is this not working?" I asked aloud as I gaped at the screen. "This is easy. Easier even than web links in html must be. How did I mess this up?" That bit stayed in my head, but it was definitely what I was thinking. Well, anyway, we had to get moving to make the movie so I closed up the computer. When we got home I opened it back up again and magically, my cuts were now working perfectly. Cue more gaping. I swear I saw the marshmallow unicorn dance across the rainbow and could hear puppies yipping in the background.
So - whatever - it's working, great. So then there was some confusion regarding citrus #20. f_m_r_l had posted it, even though she'd sent me the pic to post and I had done so already. No biggie, she can post it too if she wants. But, this got me thinking. I'd been linking to the initial 'put into play' post in the 'look up your citrus' post, and that had been niggling at me a bit as not really the thing to be doing - I should be linking to the proper citrus tag. This drove it home that I should really fix this now when the number of citrus is still fairly manageable. So I merrily start doing this. Then I get to pesky citrus 20. The tag on my post brings up my post. The tag on f_m_r_l's post brings up her post. Never the twain shall meet. There doesn't seem to be any indication that she typed a tag which was just slightly different from mine.
But how much do you want to bet when I hop onto the lemon's journal when I get home tonight that tag is going to work just fine?
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Date: 2012-07-26 05:31 pm (UTC)I constantly bemoan my lack of internet savvy, and this is all connected with the wider issue of my being technologically incompetent. The problem with asking for help comes on two levels. One - the things I'm trying to do are pretty simple. Two - half the time things don't work because I'm genuinely doing something wrong, and the other half the computer is displaying its ability to make me look like an idiot when I drag someone else over to watch my computer produce a unicorn made of marshmallows, rainbows, and puppies - which I swear it just did five minutes ago! grrrr. I swear to you, I don't know if I'm more surprised when something works or when it doesn't work.
So with the lemon's journal yesterday I was planning to tidy up the 'look up your citrus' sticky post because the list was getting pretty long and I wanted to use some cuts to tidy it up. I haven't been able to successfully insert web links in html - see? simple. I really should be able to figure that out - so I was using rich text and put the cuts in accordingly, no problem, easy peasy. Save. facepalm. Entry looks the same except now there are empty lines displaying where I inserted cuts.
"Why is this not working?" I asked aloud as I gaped at the screen. "This is easy. Easier even than web links in html must be. How did I mess this up?" That bit stayed in my head, but it was definitely what I was thinking. Well, anyway, we had to get moving to make the movie so I closed up the computer. When we got home I opened it back up again and magically, my cuts were now working perfectly. Cue more gaping. I swear I saw the marshmallow unicorn dance across the rainbow and could hear puppies yipping in the background.
So - whatever - it's working, great. So then there was some confusion regarding citrus #20. f_m_r_l had posted it, even though she'd sent me the pic to post and I had done so already. No biggie, she can post it too if she wants. But, this got me thinking. I'd been linking to the initial 'put into play' post in the 'look up your citrus' post, and that had been niggling at me a bit as not really the thing to be doing - I should be linking to the proper citrus tag. This drove it home that I should really fix this now when the number of citrus is still fairly manageable. So I merrily start doing this. Then I get to pesky citrus 20. The tag on my post brings up my post. The tag on f_m_r_l's post brings up her post. Never the twain shall meet. There doesn't seem to be any indication that she typed a tag which was just slightly different from mine.
But how much do you want to bet when I hop onto the lemon's journal when I get home tonight that tag is going to work just fine?
yip! yip! neigh!