h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have heard that we are due for more snow. The one thing I do not like about snow is when it freezes over, its allright when its soft.


JA

We had no heating in the office for a while but now its ok again. It did snow a lot yesterday lunch time but did not stick at all. Today its beautiful, sun and blue sky.

Nice day to go walking or horse riding - anything rather than sitting in the office!

For not replying earlier Julyflower. How are you keeping? I am bit run down at the moment but otherwise

JA

Never be about not being able to write because the same thing happens to me very often too!

It can be very busy at work and at home my teenager hogs the pc!

Its that time of year to be run down, you are in VERY good company. Not long now till it starts getting warmer...and its definitely lighter when I'm walking home.

roll on spring

Spring is my favourite time of year. It's the time of year where everything becomes alive again after the long dark months of winter.

I wonder if I am alone in finding the 'help' and information given via the guideml clinic very difficult to undertstand. It's bogged down with computer terms and if you do not have an LCCI in Computers you will not be able to understand it. When I have pointed it they said all you need is a basic knowledge of computers. I am afraid that is not true as I have been on CLAIT and that this an introductionary course to computers and you will never learn anything like that in it. I have been on Business Administration courses which have covered Word processing, Data Base and Spreadsheets but only a very brief introduction to desk top publishing which is guideml is. You have to be on a level 2 dedicated LCCI computer course which covered not only word processing, data base and spreadsheets but desk top publishing and basic programming. The standard of knowledge required in the LCCI 2 Dedicated computer course is much higher than in a word processing course. I have tried so many times to read the instructions about guideml clinic but it just goes over my head. They even say it is very easy to use, yes if your have basic programming experience which I have not. I find a easy to understand entry on guideml. The only option I have is either go to the library and get a book out on the subject or go on course.

JA

I agree entirely! and I'm glad its not just me!

What I did was follow the instructions to look at the codes other people had used on their spaces - then I did something I'm not sure is ok I cut and pasted theirs and adapted it for my own.....but it was ages ago and I'm not sure I could do it now without a struggle..

the other thing I did - if you look at my conversations (quite low on the left in my space !!!!) - I butted in on 2 very knowledgeable boffins talking about guideml and they were incredibly helpful and came straight back to me in language I could understand, with links and everything, it was wonderful! I was ultra impressed ! Try it!

I actually have to do some work in the website here where I work but its much much easier and there are no complications with pictures and stuff, its basic stuff like size of text and "bold" etc.

We get sent on courses like Word and Exel, I remember it for a few days, never use it and then forget it again!

If I need anything on my pc at home I ask my 14 year old daughter - they seem to have an affinity with computers

I am not a computer but using this through the cable tv email service. I have used this service through our local library internet but do not know how to cut & paste from it. If it is from a word processed document but then you could not you use the icons. It's very confusing, I have just been told how to put my U reference number and it just caused all my other previous guideml codes to not be recognised. I even checked it against where I got my code for my researcher number - correct.

Yet when I go to the Guideml clinic they say its easy to understand and I have to do is read the information given on it at the various postings. It might as well be written in Klingon.

I got the same advice last year as I did this year from the guideml clinic.
Its true unless you use something you will just forget how to use it. It would have been better if they had entries written in a more tutorial style fashion and not just pages and pages of codes on it. I do not find computers difficult to use its just that the help that is given here is put out in such a complicated way. You just have to be very accurate in how you type in the codes. At least when I did desk-top publishing it was taught in a more logical step by step fashion.

I thought I was the only one who had problems understanding guideml as I would see other entries of researchers who had been on only a month and they could get to grips with it.

BTW I have been to London for a make-over and a photo shoot and just recived the photos a few minutes ago by special delivery. It was done in Oxford Circus.



JA

I have the feeling you know way more than I do about html ....I started a computer course a few months ago...failed the first module (there were supposed to be 8) and gave up, whoops..

have you thought about asking one of the "old hands" !!!! or aces or whatever they are called!! Wasn't someone at the London mini-meet one?

Wow a makeover - was that a long-standing ambition of yours or was it a present someone gave you or wot? The nearest I got to that was the ONE time I won something, a weekend in Ragdale Hall - a wonderful health farm .... I took my mother and we loved it, I had a makeover but had to take my own photo!!

Are you pleased with how they did the photos...I'd love to see them


for the

I usually ask Manda, Kow or Loup to help me with Guideml. I have just asked SEF about a problem about putting my researchers U number on it as the codes he has given me has not worked.

Yes it has been along ambition of mine to have a makeover. I got this through winning a competition. I was amazed with the photographs as I might not a very good smiler. I have 8 photos in an album and 3 small photo cards.

I love the idea of going to a health farm or health spa being pampered. They have quite a few in Scotland and one is in Maidens not from the international golf course of the coast in South East Ayrshire.

JA

I had my daughter's photo taken professionally when she turned 13 to celebrate her becoming a teenager, they cost a fortune but are definitely worth it, 6 large photos in a really nice album.

I don't think I will ever be able to afford to go there if I was paying myself! but Ragdale Hall was GREAT, we had massages and a make up lesson and a floatation tank and ....we did our metabolic rate tests where they can work out how many calories a day you need to survive...without putting on weight ...we messed that test up because we were both giggling so much, we had to blow into huge plastic bags and we did look very funny.

Also it was summer so we were able to use the outdoor pool as well as the indoor..the only thing was we were a bit hungry ! but I think they have changed that now and starve people a bit less


all that has made me hungry so I'm going for and now!!
have a good day

That reminds me of something I heard that is supposed to take weight of instantly - body wraps. They either have it with polythene or bandage. I do not know if it really works.

I have just had a gammon roll.

thanks I hope your day will be good as well.

JA

That reminds me of something I heard that is supposed to take weight of instantly - body wraps. They either have it with polythene or bandage. I do not know if it really works.

I have just had a gammon roll.

thanks I hope your day will be good as well.

JA

~The best place for me to put a body wrap would be around my mouth!

someone brought after 8's today so lots of

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