Friday, June 03, 2005

Fair warning on spelling.

I am a horrible speller. Always have been, always will be. It's one of those things that I've just had to accept and live with.

Go figure, I can remember from 1981, on an Apple ][e computer, under DOS 3.3, that executing these commands would turn off the checksums, which was useful if your disk had an error on it, and you needed to recover that data. The part of the disk with the error would usually read in 90% of what you needed, the rest would be garbled. Repairing the garbled part was much easier than trying to recreate the entire file.

CALL -151 [RETURN]
B942:18 60 [RETURN]
BAAA:00 [RETURN]
CTRL-C [RETURN]
LOAD {FILENAME} [RETURN]

** In these days, the [ENTER] key was still called a [RETURN] key. Remember, you know, the days of typewriters, teletypes, etc? The return key was for a "carriage return", meaning the print head, or the carriage that held your paper to return to the start position, usually advancing your paper by a line.


Well, I guess that has successfully dated myself hasn't it?

Now try and answer this. I can remember this code from over 20+ years ago, yet I still have to fight to try and come up with the word "aproprate" (heck, even here it's spelled wrong) Editor's note: Sorry, I cannot help myself - I have to at least post that I appropriately noticed the spelling error.

So I will apologize now, in advanced, and from now on, we won't mention it again. I'm sorry that I'm a horrible speller!

Now before you go, ERRRRG, ARRRGH, SPELLCHECK you DORK!!! Spell checks are useful, but if you can't get close enough to the word, a suggest spelling doesn't help! It's even worse with a dictionary. Ahh, the trials and tribulations of a BAD speller.

You may have noticed on the sidebar, there is a katiecee. She is my savior when it comes to my spelling. She has been kind enough to run through my rambling and correct what she can. And at time that can be the *HUGE* undertaking. Thanks BIG time sweetie! Love ya always!

So I will be getting some new stuff posted in the next while soon. Perhaps a bit more on the technical side of things.

Till then, Cheers!

1 Comments:

Blogger katiecee said...

I am always happy to provide a bit of wordsmithing since you keep my puters happy...now please replace my sound card.

9:57 AM  

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