Dummy no longer!
January 7th 2008 22:45
Well, my great intention to write something here each day that included the word I’d been sent from Dictionary.com hasn’t got off to a good start. For those who’ve just joined, what I’m going to do is include in this post the word that’s arrived in an email from Dictionary.com, and let you guess what the word is. However, today there’ll be two words, so keep your eyes peeled.
Part of the problem is that I’m spending almost all day in front of a computer at the moment, and last night I actually took a break from it when I got home. I did ten pages of proofreading for an evangelist who’s done some writing on the problems with evolution, and some other odds and ends but in the end my brain was feeling a bit friable so I left off earlier than normal.
During the day at work I’m having to scrabble to get to grips with the various programs I’ve mentioned in earlier posts: Adobe InDesign, PowerPoint, Access and Excel (which I think I’ve spelt as Xcel previously because I had an idea in my head that that was the correct spelling). I’m closer to understanding them now than I was, but as always it’s getting fluent in them that’s the trick, and I’m certainly not that at the moment.
I’m not one of those people who likes to sit down and read the manual from start to finish. I prefer to have a project to get on with – or at least a pretence of a project – and then I’ll go searching for what I need. It isn’t always the easiest approach, but it works in principle.
But I do like to have a manual – a hardcopy one, that is. Trying to find solutions in the program’s help area, or online, never seems to me to be as successful. In-program helps have improved, and so have online ones, but this is one area where the longer they keep producing manuals the better.
At the moment I’ve got a couple of the Dummies ones, and a couple of the Fast & Easy series. Both are equally good in their way. Sometimes I wish the Dummies ones would get on with the job a bit faster (the Fast & Easy certainly do), but they’re still very helpful.
So, have you sussed out the two words yet?
Part of the problem is that I’m spending almost all day in front of a computer at the moment, and last night I actually took a break from it when I got home. I did ten pages of proofreading for an evangelist who’s done some writing on the problems with evolution, and some other odds and ends but in the end my brain was feeling a bit friable so I left off earlier than normal.
During the day at work I’m having to scrabble to get to grips with the various programs I’ve mentioned in earlier posts: Adobe InDesign, PowerPoint, Access and Excel (which I think I’ve spelt as Xcel previously because I had an idea in my head that that was the correct spelling). I’m closer to understanding them now than I was, but as always it’s getting fluent in them that’s the trick, and I’m certainly not that at the moment.
I’m not one of those people who likes to sit down and read the manual from start to finish. I prefer to have a project to get on with – or at least a pretence of a project – and then I’ll go searching for what I need. It isn’t always the easiest approach, but it works in principle.
But I do like to have a manual – a hardcopy one, that is. Trying to find solutions in the program’s help area, or online, never seems to me to be as successful. In-program helps have improved, and so have online ones, but this is one area where the longer they keep producing manuals the better.
At the moment I’ve got a couple of the Dummies ones, and a couple of the Fast & Easy series. Both are equally good in their way. Sometimes I wish the Dummies ones would get on with the job a bit faster (the Fast & Easy certainly do), but they’re still very helpful.
So, have you sussed out the two words yet?
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And how are you apart from playing silly games on the Internet?
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Great fun, though. Must admit I prefer word games to Sudoko or any number-type games, or cryptic ones.
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