Took Six Months Off Of My Life!

But maybe with the proper warning, it won't harm your life expectancy.
Jott is supposed to make your life easier. Missy can tell you that I need help when it comes to texting/text messaging/SMSing/TMing. She watched me try to contact Bob on my cell phone in the car on the way back from SCLA and is probably still laughing.
Laugh no more, Missy! A text message from me is just a cell phone call away! Well, at least now that I've set it all up ...
What Jott does is allow you to speak your message and then it uses some space-age technology to transcribe that (better than the closed captioning on tv news shows, I hope) and send it to the cell phone and/or e-mail address of your choosing.
So now when I want to contact Bob, all I do is pick up my cell phone, turn it on (because it's never on), squeeze the voice command button, say "Name Dial," then "Jott," and then when Jott answers, say "Bob" and then give my message in my clear, Mid-Atlantic accent. Jott tells me "Got it!" and I can snap that puppy closed. In a minute or so, Bob's cell will ring and he will have a nicely typed text message with punctuation (thanks for the tip on doing that by hand, Sarah and Missy) and everything. A back-up e-mail goes to his account.
Bren listened to me say naughty words as I was setting up the account. I wanted to be able to Jott to my Twitter account as well (because one can) and I couldn't see how to do it. It was very frustrating only because I'm a poo-poo head. The "add" link was on the left, but in very tiny letters. Well, all those letters look tiny to me these days. Why don't they make the buttons on cell phones bigger? Why don't those young whipper-snappers speak up? Ahem. Sorry.

Curse You, MicroSquash Outlook!

I've just spent ten minutes on an internal e-mail that should have taken 30 seconds. I haven't used Outlook much and so I really don't understand it. And we all know how well I take to things that are new. Okay, not as badly as some ...
Anyway, it's almost imposs. to send an e-mail until you have your recipients straight and they have to be separated by semi-colons rather than the commas used by just about every other e-mail format I have ever used since I started messing around with the internet in 1995, and I started out with Pine-mail in ascii!
All I was trying to do was point out the handy article on creative dramatics in the latest issue of Book Links to my co-workers (who are scattered to the winds today: one out, one at circulation, and one busy putting together a storytime) and I had to re-send this e-mail over and over until I figured out I need to
1. use the semi-colons
2. delete the set of addressees with the commas
before it would actually send it.
I think.
Perhaps my co-workers have received six versions of this not-so-critical e-mail.
This is even worse than the confusion I have over tags (such as in the block below on my posting screen, which you can't see, but I assure you is there). Here in Blogger tags are separated by commas. Some places they are separated by spaces so you can't have two-word tags unless you run them together as one word or, in the case of some sites, put a "+" between them. We all know that my persona is alllllll over the web at this point (just click on the tiny claimID button way at the bottom of this blog to see some of the bits I know about), so I'm taggin' like a third grade class at recess here. Consequently, my tags might fall short of ideal. "You're It!" "Am not!" "I tagged you!" "You missed!" "Did not!" "Did too!" ad fisticuffs.
If I learn anything more about Outlook, I'll let y'all know when I stop bleeding.