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Casual Articles - Yikes! What Crawled Into My Computer? An Adventure in Computing
One of the most important, but least understood or appreciated aspects of any business is its bookkeeping or accounting system. And, because very few people know much about the reasons for a bookkeeping system, most people are frightened by the thought of the work involved in setting up such a system, and the drudgery of daily maintenance. Why bookkeeping is important for your business? First of all, yo
Better that I'm patient with myself. There are times when my PC doesn't even turn on or my scripts do nothing. It isn't easy to determine what went wrong and oftentimes I have to start from the beginning. But when that happens I always consider it as an adventure in education.
Because of this, my book shelves are no
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Sometimes the problem goes away when I reboot my machine. At times it's a bug from a software I'm trying. Once it was a virus which left my PC blank even after I rebooted it. Often it's because I tinker too much with my computer. I'm not a techie. Many would probably refer to me as a luddite. I call myself a fiddler...because I fiddle a lot with my computer. I like to know how bits, bytes and chips all fall into place.
That is perhaps because I'm a writer. I struggle to make thoughts, words and paper form themselves into something readable. Or maybe it's because of my first experience with a computer, a worn-out, neglected Apple. The friend who gave it to me didn't teach me how to use it. He instead taught me how to open it and press a few chips into place if it didn't boot. I was intrigued forever!
I have a more updated PC now but that doesn't stop me from opening it and risking life with electrocution, or intelligence with surrendering to my shop's techie. At the very least I was able to install more RAM, a LAN card and a CD-RW (see, I can even talk tech-speak).
It's not only the hardware, however, that I try to learn. I also try to see how software tick. I've installed and uninstalled so much freeware and shareware that twice I had to format my hard drive to clear out the "garbage." Now I'm trying to learn Perl, which is the scripting used in Website maintenance. In case you haven't seen one, a particular string of Perl script looks like it was a result of a two-year old kid left alone on the keyboard.
So here I am, a writer used to weaving words together, now trying to unscramble them. Good thing my Website host is patient with me. So is my computer shop.
Better that I'm patient with myself. There are times when my PC doesn't even turn on or my scripts do nothing. It isn't easy to determine what went wrong and oftentimes I have to start from the beginning. But when that happens I always consider it as an adventure in education.
Because of this, my book shelves are no l
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That is perhaps because I'm a writer. I struggle to make thoughts, words and paper form themselves into something readable. Or maybe it's because of my first experience with a computer, a worn-out, neglected Apple. The friend who gave it to me didn't teach me how to use it. He instead taught me how to open it and press a few chips into place if it didn't boot. I was intrigued forever!
I have a more updated PC now but that doesn't stop me from opening it and risking life with electrocution, or intelligence with surrendering to my shop's techie. At the very least I was able to install more RAM, a LAN card and a CD-RW (see, I can even talk tech-speak).
It's not only the hardware, however, that I try to learn. I also try to see how software tick. I've installed and uninstalled so much freeware and shareware that twice I had to format my hard drive to clear out the "garbage." Now I'm trying to learn Perl, which is the scripting used in Website maintenance. In case you haven't seen one, a particular string of Perl script looks like it was a result of a two-year old kid left alone on the keyboard.
So here I am, a writer used to weaving words together, now trying to unscramble them. Good thing my Website host is patient with me. So is my computer shop.
Better that I'm patient with myself. There are times when my PC doesn't even turn on or my scripts do nothing. It isn't easy to determine what went wrong and oftentimes I have to start from the beginning. But when that happens I always consider it as an adventure in education.
Because of this, my book shelves are no
Credit cards are popularly used by busy people who do not have the time for breaking down their salaries to different personal and family allocations. It will really consume time if you will still segregate your money to allocate it for electric utility payments, or in buying some groceries or other items and other needs. They just resort to using their credit cards for easier payments for these acquired products and se
I have a more updated PC now but that doesn't stop me from opening it and risking life with electrocution, or intelligence with surrendering to my shop's techie. At the very least I was able to install more RAM, a LAN card and a CD-RW (see, I can even talk tech-speak).
It's not only the hardware, however, that I try to learn. I also try to see how software tick. I've installed and uninstalled so much freeware and shareware that twice I had to format my hard drive to clear out the "garbage." Now I'm trying to learn Perl, which is the scripting used in Website maintenance. In case you haven't seen one, a particular string of Perl script looks like it was a result of a two-year old kid left alone on the keyboard.
So here I am, a writer used to weaving words together, now trying to unscramble them. Good thing my Website host is patient with me. So is my computer shop.
Better that I'm patient with myself. There are times when my PC doesn't even turn on or my scripts do nothing. It isn't easy to determine what went wrong and oftentimes I have to start from the beginning. But when that happens I always consider it as an adventure in education.
Because of this, my book shelves are no
The best way to learn about the best way to list your auctions is by analyzing auction listings for items that are the same or similar to what you are selling. Try searching eBay for completed auctions of exactly the same item you are selling, sort the list by price (descending), and study the listings for the items that sold for the highest price. Observe the similarities between the words in the auction title, simil
It's not only the hardware, however, that I try to learn. I also try to see how software tick. I've installed and uninstalled so much freeware and shareware that twice I had to format my hard drive to clear out the "garbage." Now I'm trying to learn Perl, which is the scripting used in Website maintenance. In case you haven't seen one, a particular string of Perl script looks like it was a result of a two-year old kid left alone on the keyboard.
So here I am, a writer used to weaving words together, now trying to unscramble them. Good thing my Website host is patient with me. So is my computer shop.
Better that I'm patient with myself. There are times when my PC doesn't even turn on or my scripts do nothing. It isn't easy to determine what went wrong and oftentimes I have to start from the beginning. But when that happens I always consider it as an adventure in education.
Because of this, my book shelves are no
Article writing - why do it?Five reasonsThere are countless reasons to write and market articles. Here are my top five.1. Back links - When your articles get picked up and used by other newsletters, web sites and blogs, there is now a link back to your site. This is called a back link. The more you have, and the higher ranked the site linking back to you, the more i
Better that I'm patient with myself. There are times when my PC doesn't even turn on or my scripts do nothing. It isn't easy to determine what went wrong and oftentimes I have to start from the beginning. But when that happens I always consider it as an adventure in education.
Because of this, my book shelves are no longer exclusive enclaves of novels and books on history. Now found are a sprinkling of computer books from learning to build a PC to publishing on the World Wide Web. I'm comfortable with reading Chris Pirillo's computer newsletter, 'Lockergnome,' as well as Paul Meyer's business column, 'TalkBiz News,' both of which are electronic publications.
One thing I truly appreciate about owning a computer is that it has taken away my fear to learn new things, most especially about myself. After all, what I do has to have a direct correlation with who I am and what I still want to be. Thus, while I'm not an expert on computer technology, I have a gut feel about software and what they can do to enhance our work.
A computer crash! What crawled in? A bug, a virus, a worm, a trojan? A bit or a byte that went haywire? Or was it just me? Whatever. Somehow, something will always turn out right. Ultimately, I'll always be the better person for it.
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