If you are on the Visual tab you need to type the text you want to add a link to first, then highlight it and the link button will become available. The link button is on the top row of formatting buttons above the input text box where you type your blog words and is the 10th button, looking like a chain link.

If you are on the HTML tab you should see a blue underlined ‘link’ next to the font formatting buttons b (bold) i (italic) above the input text box, click ‘link’.

A pop up occurs with a url input box, click to the end leaving the http:// if you are going to type the address in yourself, if you have copied the url then paste (ctrl-v) it in there. Enter a title, this is not what will appear on the blog but what will show when moused over. If the site is not on yours, you should click the check mark box on to open the link in a new tab/window. Click Add Link this will take you back to your blog input text box.

If you are on the html tab, you NEED to then add text before the < / a > code, this is what will show in your blog for the visitor to click. Don’t forget to add a space if there is text around your link put it before or after the code or the space will be underlined within the link DawnDrury.com and you are done.

Here is a picture of my scrambled eggs.

Julie in the movie started blogging about her cooking Julia’s recipes, which I believe was an everyday blog entry.  I’m wondering if that contributed to her making it to the top of the list of blogs or if it was more her topic of Julia and cooking each worthy of their own blog.

Another, thought to ponder is the length of the entries.  If the movie was true to the length of the entries they showed, then short and to the point or long and captivating are both pliable to the readers interest.

How often should one blog, what do you think?  Daily, weekly, or when the topic presents itself that you just have to blog?  You are the reader. How often do you want to read from the blogs you follow?

If my memory serves me right, it’s the computer that ran DOS (disk operating system) that I used for my High School Senior computer class.  Otherwise, it was my next compute the Apple IIgs that was suppose to be great for graphics. It was even signed by (I think) Woz, something like that spelling. However, back then memory cost a lot and the programs needed more than what the basic computer came with making it an aggravation to get enough memory to run the programs think we went back to the store like 3 times increasing memory just to get the thing to run. We finally got enough memory to run the current programs I had gotten.  I did get fed up with it and it lost it’s charm after all that fuss.  Don’t remember much else about that Apple, except it had a little mouse learning program where you drive a car and I had my mom try it.

Don’t remember much about the High School computer class except I loved it and my teacher said I was the only one in the class who thought to put a code line that had it read when screen full pause and say press a key to continue.  Now you must remember this is years ago and the program was say to give you all your contacts.  However, it ran it in a list mode contact after contact, line by line and this assignment had hundreds of lines that ran. So, I just thought this is dumb I can’t read the list if it prints every line and scrolls to the end without stopping. So, I programmed an if screen full then pause and instruct them to press a key when ready to see next screen full. Just made logic to me… This was my first introduction to the computer programming world.

Did you learn in school or on your own how to use a computer?

Eventually, as you all know, the World Wide Web affectionately called the Internet for short became visually user friendly. My next online was with AOL and it was fine but expensive and it was more geared towards Community.  I live in a rural area and grew up basically alone, no neighbors, or friends near by for that type of comradeship.  A co-worker introduced me to Earthlink, remember rural area living, so we had to have dial-up and as those of you in neighborhoods got cable I did not.  Yes, it was very slow using but not having used anything else at least I was online and had a browser, not a community, to just go where I wanted to go online.

The World was now available to this country gal and she surfed for hours at a time.  Thank goodness for unlimited dial-up…