Sunday, January 8, 2006

Right, I've had enough. I've spent virtually the whole of Sunday trying to sort this one out. Diagnosis, fix, next cockup. I finally worked out via Google & the helplinethat IE5 & RU are incompatible on Mac. (Could have located it in RU's instruction notes if I'd had the wit. It's this fundamental lack of digital common sense that makes me reluctant to start all over again elsewhere.) The high point this afternoon was downloading Firefox & seeing the toolbar displayed. Thought I'd cracked it, only to find a.) that the homepage box will only allow me to type into it some of the time, & b.) it won't allow me to paste pictures. Final pisser: I can't simply reverse the process & re-install on the pc because, having had to download from scratch as instructed, I'm using a trial version of RU. If I try to download it again, its robot at the other end will assume I'm trying to squeeze extra free deal from it & will block the submission. Folks, it's been fun. More than fun; it's been enormously rewarding - creative stimulus plus regular interation with a circle of good friends. But there just aren't the hours in the day to get the pleasurable bit done plus all the labour that a non-techie like me would have to put in to learn the characteristics of new software. Many thanks for the suggestions, guys. If I had the basic technical know-how I might make the leap, but I don't. Be good, one & all, & play nice... 5:59:02 PM    Mmm? [] This will be my final attempt to upstream out of a homepage in Firefox that's only working fitfully. Just as I thought I'd got it fixed. Sometimes it will take text, sometimes it won't. And nothing's upstreamed since early this morning. Sick & tired of this fannying around with RU, but deeply reluctant to start all over again with Blogger or TypePad. Well, here we go. Might see you on the other side, then... 4:41:31 PM    Mmm? [] TESTING (AGAIN) 2:18:14 PM    Mmm? [] Well, I'm still here. Problem diagnosed: IE5 in Mac doesn't support rich text format & so the toolbar doesn't display. Partial solution: installation of Firefox as my secondary browser (because Safari doesn't support rtf either). Continuing problems: now I can't cut & paste from Word to home desktop; it just won't take. I format all my paragraphs in justify. Is there any way that I can html 'justify' into the works? If so, what's the code? If I can get that sorted, much against the greater part of better judgement & only pro tem, I'll stay with RU. 9:13:54 AM    Mmm? []

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