Good advice from Frank J. Some commenters over at Space Politics should read it.
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Good advice from Frank J. Some commenters over at Space Politics should read it.
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Good points. Personally, I only write what the mind control satellites tell me to write, so I’m in good shape there.
Frank is excellent and funny as always.
Should the title read “How Not To …” or is this the next step in a process for you? 😉
Here’s one thing I’ve noticed about crazy people’s websites. A sane person will divide their topic up into subtopics, with a separate page for each, and provide navigation allowing the user to peruse each subtopic or not as they see fit. A crazy person’s website will always be one big massive page 20 feet long. I finally concluded that it’s because each part of their truth is so important that they can’t let anybody take a pass on reading any small part of it.
The people that generally seem to type in all caps are mostly novice computer users. They generally just learned how to double click their mouse and just so happened to find this thing called Internet Explorer that carries them about the intertubes. To me these people type in all caps for much the same reason that the first telephone users, upon discovery that they are talking to someone on the other side of the country, felt the need to yell into the receiver in order to make sure their voice was heard. I guess this would put these people more into the stupid category than the crazy category.
It’s also my experience as a computer tech that the stupid computer users are ones that will point to their desktop computer or laptop and call that the “hard drive”. Then, they point to the standalone monitor and say that’s the “desktop”. And it’s only the sum total of the “hard drive”, the “desktop”, the mouse, and keyboard described together that is the computer in it’s entirety. So, if they ask if I can pick up/move their computer they mean everything computer related sitting on or under the desk. Or, if they call and say their desktop won’t power on, 8 times out of 10 it’s the monitor that is turned off/unplugged. I even had one customer insist that he was defragging his desktop, “because he read that on the internal net”, but he was actually just degaussing his monitor over and over, “and it’s still SLOW!” And they are the ones that will request you plug a new copier (which is actually technically a printer) into their hard drive.