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the click conundrum	4:20pm 5/8/2008
It always used to bug me watching people older than me and less fluent with computers confusing single and double clicks, either endlessly double clicking on things that only need one click, or clicking once and wondering why nothing was happening. And yet as time wears by i find myself falling victim to this same confusion. I don't know whether it's due to my recent Mac conversion or because older brains invariably shed their computer savvy.
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matthew	6:13pm 5/12/2008
you should try my job. Training people on new paperless software....and you realize midway through that they have no idea how to even use a computer let alone learn the new software... "okay, now move the mouse to the top right hand corner of your desktop" NO! - I'm not kidding! That's actually happened! I've almost slapped a few of 'em...

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6:15pm 5/12/2008

ahh, i see part of my punctuation screwed up the comment piece..lets try that again...: you should try my job. Training people on new paperless software....and you realize midway through that they have no idea how to even use a computer let alone learn the new software... "okay, now move the mouse to the top right hand corner of your desktop" -user physically picks mouse up off desk, moves it to top right hand corner of desk, a places it back down- NO! - I'm not kidding! That's actually happened! I've almost slapped a few of 'em...

matthew	6:16pm 5/12/2008
ok, that one worked...-mental note "don't use arrows on Ted's comment fields"-

ted (www)	1:33pm 5/13/2008
Yes, arrows (specifically, "greater than" or "less than" signs) wreak havoc with web pages as they are the basis of HTML. I could change my code so they get encoded and don't interfere, but that would deactivate all HTML submitted in comments. I'll have to ponder on a "smart encoding" solution.

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