You do know that you can click, hold down the button and drag to select text a character at a time.
But didjaknow…
You can double click on a word, and it selects the whole word. You can also double click on a word, hold the button down after the second click, then drag your mouse and select more whole words at a time.
You can triple click to select a whole paragraph. Triple click, hold the button on the third click and drag to select whole paragraphs at a time.
If you have anything critical on them, make sure you make multiple copies. Check your copies every year and make a new copy on new blanks, so one of your disks will likely stay good. Put them on hard drives (a terabyte, 1000gig, drive is now under $150) and keep them in your computer, where you can get alerts on potential drive failures. Encrypt them and upload them to a web server somewhere.
Just be aware that nearly 20% of CDs recorded 10 years ago are corrupt. 7% of disks recorded in 2002 are corrupt, but nearly 20% of them are difficult to read or partially corrupt.
They don’t last forever, and “Oh oh, I can’t read this one” is too late to do something about your baby photo backups.
Some brilliant soul takes a literal look at one of my favorite videos ever. I remember coming home from school and watching the original on “Video Hits with Samantha Taylor” on CBC. I think I might prefer this version, actually.
As homeschoolers, we ask ourselves this question quite often.
In an interesting essay, David Orr argues that the current system isn’t producing the type of people that the world needs:
The plain fact is that the planet does not need more “successful” people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every shape and form. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these needs have little to do with success as our culture has defined it.
This blog is a dump of great links I find while working on the net all day.
It *used* to be my personal blog, but the posts were getting lost among all of my weird links, so I moved my personal blog to Lego and Sawdust. Go there if you came here looking for woodworking, religion or family discussions.
I have left all the old posts here because the search engines bring lots of people. Any posts that aren't about weird links from the net will be on my other blog. Go there.
Because it's the source of most of my hits recently, here is a link to the "Faith" category of posts, where we discuss our recent decision to leave Christianity and the fallout that is occurring.
