"brian whatcott" wrote in message
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If I may make an editorial (not to mention impudent comment...)
...this note, that you think of as severely curtailed - is about the right
length for newsgroup readers like me. It leaves me wanting more.
Sometimes, after the third screen of your longer peerless tales, I give
up.
Brian W
Hi, Brian :{))
Editorializing and impudence are welcomed. You've no doubt seen that I
handle Boob and Willy without killfiling or going into a tizzy :{)) - and,
even, sometimes, get useful info from them by not reacting as many others
do.
It wasn't the note which was curtailed. It was the internet availability.
As to editorializing, I "get it" - but there's no way to tell the story in 3
paragraphs, and to break it up into bite sized chunks (admittedly,
sometimes, when it's going out over winlink, the much-slower-than-dialup and
subject-to-propagation-issues HF radio link for my son to post, I DO break
it up into one-screen chunks because the connection can't stay up for long
enough to do it in one piece) - but it doesn't parse that way - he stitches
them back together before sending them off for me. A little like watching a
video with 3 or 4 avi files. Unless you can stitch them together (my VLC
videolan viewer does that for me), trying to get the entire picture (pardon
the expression) is much tougher than, in this analogy, just sticking in a
DVD and settling back, hitting the pause button if you like, and watching.
That said, there's lots of movies I have on my HD that we haven't, and may
well never, watch(ed). My logs may well be similar.
Meanwhile, there's a referendum on the subject I initiated over in Cruisers
and Sailing Forums, a web-based place. There have been suggestions for a
blog. However, maybe it's just me, but I have a couple of friends who put
out blogs, and while I get a notification of them, with the link to go see,
much of the time, I don't - because a) it's another step, rather than just
opening the mail (which I already had to do to see the link) and b) at
least, in the ones I see, they don't present in an easy-to-read format, and
have everything ever done there as well, cluttering up the instant (as in
instance) post I might like to read. The ones I've seen (granted, there may
be other formats) also require a further mining to get to what it is they're
talking about on the notification, rather than just opening that instance.
However, blogs seem to be a frequent enough suggestion that perhaps I'll ask
my son, the Google wizard (ex-employee, author of the most-used Chrome
browser app), who's offered, if there's a way to set up a blog for me that
would meet my perceptions of shortcoming.
However, if I went to that format, likely I'd not then go to the additional
effort of putting notices here and the other places my log postings go. In
the ongoing referendum mentioned, there was some discussion of ego-centrism,
which I admitted might be true - but my real purpose in putting the logs
where I do is so that someone like I used to be (pick any time prior to now)
who could find my foibles, disasters, explorations and successes valuable,
might see them and store them away as I used to do, in great volume, in my
very earliest days in RBC and the dozen or so Sailnet mailing lists I used
to be on (before they killed them and went to forums). Now that the world
has gone to forums, rather than usenet (just like usenet superceded bulletin
boards - yes, I'm THAT old), if you're not on full-time broadband, getting a
broad-spectrum view is very difficult due to the need to not only open the
web page, but then navigate around in great detail. Worse, for my archiving
purposes, getting all the stuff I might like to store into my computer is
vastly more difficult than just pulling an email or usenet post into a
folder.
As to the bandwidth issue, we're currently helping our buddy boat with
access to our router (he's nearby) so he can do some setup for his time
ashore when they expect to sell the boat. In two 3-hour sessions, some of
which were my refreshing the page on the above referendum, and sending new
comments to those commenting, we've managed to use more than 400MB. Our
subscription will end in another 300MB, sometime today, if this holds. Yet,
my posts here usually, even in the most extreme, don't exceed 25K. Thus you
may have a better appreciation for why I say that anything web-based is the
bane of my existence. Those ashore don't usually have those issues :{))
So, I continue here, in a text-only format, getting each post as it arrives
if I have good enough connectivity, or the digest, if not.
So, as usual, this is long - and, likely, you've left before this point
:{)) - but I'm interested in various blog formats (which won't change my
posting style, but may limit the bandwidth here) in case they might be
useful.
In any event, you know in advance what you'll get with one of my logs; if
they're tiresome, I imagine folks ignore them after having read the first
few :{))
L8R
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