.HC Andersons stomping ground, beautiful parks surrounding the city.
CAPS..is shouting
Cap Locks… Shouting?
ALL CAPS = Shouting (not a new thing) One of the first things you learn about in a communication is email and internet etiquette. You are told not to type in all caps because a message written in all caps is seen as shouting, and rude. I have heard and read this so many times and I thought by now everyone would know this. But, there are people at work who still type emails with the caps lock on for the entire message. Tim was told not to use caps.. Tim was irritated because someone got offended by his use of all caps. Ted wanted to know why people were so sensitive and he wanted to know who decided that all caps means shouting. Tim thought he was just typing a message with the caps lock on and the capital letters didn’t add any additional meaning to the actual words he was using. From Tim’s perspective, the internet came along and with the internet came email and then later came cell phones and text messages and facebook, and with these new technologies came new spellings and abbreviations of words and phrases. To Tim, the use of all caps to indicate shouting is as new as lol or omg or rofl. I was listening to Ted and not really hearing or caring and I was thinking he needed to just move on. I was thinking about what a dope he was and I wondered how it could be so difficult for him to understand WHY THIS LOOKS LIKE SHOUTING. And then I started to wonder if the use of all caps to indicate shouting really did begin with the widespread use of the internet. It didn’t. People used capital letters to add meaning to their written words before the widespread use of internet and email. In works of fiction, for example, authors used capital letters when their character was shouting in the dialogue. I have a book here on my desk that was published in 1982 and there are phrases written in all capital letters to indicate excitement or shouting.So we need to maintain our politeness when emailing people or texting in general, keep our wonderful language alive.
new stories…
Its funny how sometimes my brain goes into overload and I end up writing loads of short stories..only to find that some of them end up being a full novel of abut 30000 words!! this happened with Polly Mae back in 2005..The story was originally for a children s page when I worked fro The arab Times in Kuwait back in 1989..I used to write 2 300 word stories every week..its was so much fun writing for a big newspaper and being involved in the day to day goings on of the paper.. The children would also write in and ask for stories..so they got an extra kick of seeing their names as the stars of the stories….
Would love to go back to writing short stories..I did a spot for the Dumfires and galloway standard…which was immense fun…
Maybe its time to start something again…. its a new year so…..
Naughty censors!
Hmm, what a naughty thing to do, censoring our thoughts and views and our wanderings though the web… when will this end…
Merry Christmas xx
Merry Christmas to you all..
Hi everyone
I just want to wish each and everyone of of my Family, friends and fans a very Merry Christmas… If you do not celebrate it then I hope you have a nice holiday at our special time of the year…
I just want to wish each and everyone of of my Family, friends and fans a very Merry Christmas… If you do not celebrate it then I hope you have a nice holiday at our special time of the year…
A new month
A new month begins..July..the month of warmer days, Americas independence, scores of birthdays etc…It was even my dads birthday in this month.
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
So lets make July a good month for everyone…meet and greet everyone with a smile across your face….
Have a great summer guys..
Windy day
Today the sun is shining and there is a rather stiff breeze blowing, great for when your hanging washing out, but not so great if you are a 4 year old holding a sticky lolly pop and your hair keeps getting blown on it.
A four year old always has a different perception of the weather…its windy, then for us females its good washing weather..a four year old…. kite flying weather!
When there are big white fluffy clouds in the sky you can make and find fantastic shapes in them…of course when its windy they do not last very long!
Computers! naa they will never catch on?
bellow are a few quotes from people who think that the computer will not be really used :o) Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." --The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957 Strange eh? how time changes things? Most of us have a terrabyte hard drive or at least an external one... what would happen if we had NO electricity?
John Keats
I’m an avid fan of John Keats, read his poetry when I was young and to this day still love the Ode to Autumn. It was sad how he died such a young man, I visited the Keats and Shelly House at the Spanish steps in Italy this year and was moved by the simple rooms and wonderful pictures of him so carefully preserved at The Keats-Shelley House it contained a lock of Keats’s hair, his death mask, some original letters, and various other mementos and pictures .
.Just wonderful to sit and read his books in the same room where he sat.
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