Thing Nine

Funny, I was just cleaning out and organizing my email when I can across a "Welcome and Activate Your Account" email from 2006 from something called Writely. When I clicked on it now, it re-directed me to Google Docs. I vaguely remember at some point reading about having an online word processor and thinking what a great idea that was. Obviously, I even went so far as to sign up for it, only to never ever use it. Fact is, I generally have no need for that sort of thing, but now that my (other) professional life is taking off , I'm sure I'll be needing it all over the place. Well, not really, but I absolutely think it is great to be able to store documents online and have them be available for editing for selected people. I think Google Docs and Zoho are similar and that the more I used either one the better. I mean, it's just a matter of becoming accustomed, right?
I think the founding fathers would have been so excited not to have to write everything longhand. I, however, am sad to see the demise of cursive.
On another, not really related subject, I'm having something really weird going on with my last post. Every time I try to go into the edit posts page so that I can add a link into "Thing Eight," it flashes quickly on the edit screen and then disappears. I can right click and reload it, but the same thing happens. It's published with all the stuff, it's just that I am unable to further edit it. I think it must somehow be related to the Zoho presentation, so I'll have to remember that and find out what's going on.

Thing Eight

I figured, since it seemed I would have to sign up to Zoho for Thing Nine, when we edit a public document, that I might as well go ahead and do it now and use their online presentation/slideshow maker. It's kind of cool, but boy, I spent SO much time on it and it doesn't really have the sweet options that I would like. Granted, if I used it a couple of times it would definitely get speedier, and I'm sure I could figure out how to customize it so that the page appearance is better, but still it seems a bit clunky to me. With that said, I could see how it could come in handy. Not having to sweat importing a presentation to a new computer would really save a lot of anxiety, I think. It just wasn't as easy to manipulate as I would've liked.
Please forgive the cheesiness and roughness of the presentation, I HAD to force myself to quit or I would have spent forty hours on four slides:


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