Posts Tagged: Cyberspace

6-9 Months — 2 Comments
26
Nov 08

I’m such a dork…

I have succumbed to THE most. cheesiest. thing. on earth. eva.

I have entered Jack’s photo in week #4′s Baby photo contest album over at ContestforMoms.com.    The urge to do it was just far too powerful for me to resist.  I fought the temptation for 2.7 seconds and couldn’t stand it any longer.  I mean, I do have the cutest baby in the world, right?  (C’mon, what kinda mom would I be if I DIDN’T think that??).  Regardless, I had to do it.

I just hadta.

So I pressed the upload button and away the photographic megapixels went…soaring through cyberspace until they magically recrystaled in their proper format in the contest album.  Waahlah.   It was sickening how easy they made it.  

So.  well.  anyway.  I don’t think there are any prizes offered (I didn’t read enough about it to determin), but it’s still nice to see my baby’s face sitting there amongst the other kiddos.

Even if that’s not your kinda thing (and until a few moments ago, I swear it wasn’t MY kinda thing either), go take a looksee at my sweet little poopie head Jack-Evan and leave us a comment.  

Just look for the photoin that album called “Jack-Evan” (of course).

Spanks. :)

Works For Me! — No Comments
14
Oct 08

WFMW – Secret to never losing anything you type out, ever again!

…ok, that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but I had to think of some catchy title for this week’s Works for Me Wednesday (hosted by Rocks in My Dryer).

You know how annoying it is to spend hours many minutes typing out a very thought provoking blog comment, post, thread reply, message board post, or some other “fill in this box” space - then you hit send, and *POOF*, all of your wonderful insights suddenly dissappear into the depths of cyberspace, never to be seen again?   Nothing is more frustrating than seeing an ominous “internet explorer cannot display…” page pop up!  You hit the back key or refresh in desparation, hoping your words will reappear.  But they don’t.  And all of the time you spent typing everything out is a waste.  It may be due to a sudden internet outage (dog unpluged your modem, anyone? *raises hand*), or you may have taken so long to respond that you were logged out (“session time out”). 

But what can you do?

I spent years pounding my keys in frustration each time this happened until I learned the neatest little trick a few years back.  In fact, it was so obvious that I pounded my keyboard once more in annoyance that I had never thought of this before.

Anytime you are typing more than a sentence on the web that you will eventually “send” somewhere, you should always perform the following proceedure -

Hit “CTRL + A” to highlight all of your text.

Hit “CTRL + C” to copy the highlighted text.

Then hit send.

Now, if something goes awry, you have a copy of what you just wrote on your computer’s clipboard in case the page cleared the text from the box. :)   In the awful case that something does happen, just return to the blank box, position your cursor and hit “CTRL + V” to paste.  All of the text you just lost magically reappears before your very eyes.  (Ohhhh the wonders of modern technology).

And that’s my little secret to never ever losing what I have typed.

It works for me!