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Hierarchies - Chapter 7 (continued) (Continued from a bit of chapter 7 posted on Monday | Archive) Meg buzzed through the menus of the outliner program until the word "instant" caught her eye. "Instant outliner." That might be it. And sure enough, when she expanded the menu, among the options that flew out was "Open buddies." Buddies. That has to be related to the feature that works something like an IM client, Meg decided. She selected the item called "Open buddies" and she was not altogether surprised (but she was a little freaked out) to find a listing of the real and dead and fictional so-called people who had surfaced in her Google searches. - William Blake - Paula Tubbs - Jason Calacanis - Charlie Eppes "Oh boy," she said out loud. "Am I ready for this?" The flash of freaking passed quickly; she was already on to more detective work. Something was wrong with that list. A name must be missing, because she'd had five responses from Google. No. I've only had four. The one from Stewart Brand was for Brian. I'll bet Brand is on Brian's buddy list. I gotta call him. First she pinged him on Gtalk: Can you take a call? The answer came right back: give me 5 min Meg glanced at the clock in the corner of her computer's desktop. 4:54 AM. Cautiously, she clicked on the first name in the buddy window, William Blake. Indented in a single outline node was the same message produced by the Google search: My Dear Miss Meg Harkin, Our place is where our fellows dwell, and the degree of our acquaintance matters little. Yours very sincerely, Clicking on each of the other names had the same consequence; same messages she'd seen before in the search results. But the last buddy, Charlie Eppes, had written something new: Meg, this might make things more clear. Click on 778. She clicked, but it didn't clear anything up.
Clipping coupons To take her mind off the problem, to earn Amy some cash, and to get something accomplished while she waited for Brian, Meg turned to the last of her shopping list for Christmas. Her mom was left to buy for, and her sister-in-law. Let's see if I get any ideas from some coupon Deals & Bargains, she thought. Maybe I can find a nice magazine cover poster for Laura and use a coupon from the All Posters coupon page.She found one she liked herself, an old Lippincott's cover, chose a frame and bought it, using the 20% discount. Chronicling my life without Word Well, it seems I do depend on Word for some formatting chores. Can I use WordPad to do things like removing extra line breaks? Usually I open a Word doc and do the replace all thing, like find ^p^p and replace all with ^p. Seems like in the olden days I used to use a plain DOS text editor for stuff like that. If I was my friend, Henry, I'd just whip up a little gawk script. I'm not that geeky. |
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