-=PCTechTalk=- Fw: Reply for Lil
- From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:43:24 -0400
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger"
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:02 PM
Subject: Reply for Lil
>
> Lil,
> It's no problem at all. I'll try to give you enough info to
> allow a decision to open or not?
>
> I'm sorry I didn't think of it myself but I keep forgetting
> that dialup is still alive and well. An explanation of several of the
> things involved might help.
>
> First I must assume that you are not aware of what TinyUrl can
> do for you.
> I suggest you go to http://tinyurl.com and the example page
> they have posted. That will explain what 6cyv5x (sp?) is all about. While
> there you are presented an opportunity to drag the TinyUrl link to your
> links bar in your browser. Once you have the TinyUrl link on the bar you
> can automatically generate a TinyUrl from that long url in the Address
> block of your browser and the tinyurl is automatically entered on your
> Clipboard for easy pasting in your next communication. Neat huh? <g> Of
> course that eliminates the spelling problem ,6cyv5x (sp?) !
> Now comes the good part. You'll find a page explaining their
> Preview feature. By enabling the Preview you can view that last tinyurl
> I sent as it was originally configured, all four lines of it and you are
> presented with a link to take you there. How kewl is that?
> If everyone added the tinyurl link to their Link Bar and
> Enabled the Preview option we'd eliminate all those three metre long urls
> that break several times.
> The original link is helpful and you'll know where you're going
> but I'll still try to explain the subject matter.
>
> Lastly, in my own defense, I submit the minimum amount of
> information possible because of the training I received at the knee of my
> great uncle.
> He was a Maintenance Supervisor for the Union Pacific Railroad
> stationed at Donner Pass in the High Sierras here in California. As you
> can imagine the conditions high in the mountains made things tough for the
> maintenance crews. Rock slides, 20 foot high snow drifts, freezing
> temperatures, thunderstorms, washouts from torrential rains, all meant
> frequent derailments for trains trying to get over The Great Divide!
> When a train left the tracks my uncle called out his crew and
> they labored around the clock until the train was on it's way again.
> Once the train rolled out, as supervisor he was required to
> file a report explaining what had happened to delay the train.
> For years he filed voluminous reports explaining every detail
> of the accident.
>
> After one such report he received a telegram from the Chief of
> Maintence for the entire railroad advising him that they didn't need that
> much information.
> All they wanted was the basic facts of what happened.
>
> His next report:
> "Off again, on again, gone again, Finnegan"
>
> I will try to give you more information to work with but that's
> my story and I'm sticking to it!
>
> Roger
>
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> -=PCTechTalk=- Hellooo Roger - iCopy
> a.. From: "Lilian" <lilian.oswaldocruz@xxxxxxxxx>
> b.. To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> c.. Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:04:13 -0300
> Would it be too much to ask you to roughly say what the link is all about
> when you post them? It would be terribly helpful... for those on dial-up
> (me...) it takes ages to open the site and then discover its not something
> I
> need or am interested in Tinyurl is great, but what is 6cyv6z??? <g> On
> the
> other hand, the links you send in are so good I wouldn´t want to miss
> anything. :o))
>
> Lil
>
>
> "From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with
> which I will not put."
> - Sir Winston Churchill
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