I started on my family slush history yesterday and decided to do it in HTML as it makes it easier to connect up the dots (links?) but alas I have forgotten most of my HTML and am going to have to relearn it. The simple stuff is still OK but I am going to have to look up how to do tables again because it is the simplest way to do an index. It should be fun and I will be able to link it to my web page if I want, although I suspect that some of it should never get out into the public arena for the sake of those who are still around and who might find and read it.
And I went out and pre-ordered a MS Surface this morning because I am going to find that I need to know something about Win 8 if I am going to keep on teaching computer to older people who have not grown up in the computer age. It is going to be Win 7 all over again but more so and people are going to expect us to know how to show them. At least the tablets are lighter than my Win 7 computer and I can probably slip it into my handbag.
Techie told me to get one directly from Microsoft but they courier them and I have discovered that it is not possible in a high rise apartment, and the Post Office quite rightly doesn't think that it is their job to take the parcels in. I was going to have it delivered to D3's workplace but she is going on holidays next week so that won't work. Anyway, with luck I will get my tablet before Christmas, which is when JB HiFi are expecting to get their first order.
Techie has promised to set it up for me and put in a start button. The sales person at JB HF said that they are having no end of problems with Win 8 on desktop computers so I suppose that there will be a Win 9 along before too much time passes. I think that is when I will give up and spend my time doing HTML and dredging up all the oddments of family history and its secrets.
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