> I groan at the thought of adding another place to log into I do too, Ann. I suspect that one reason why we see so many people so absorbed in their telephones while they're walking down the street, is that they're spending all the time checking inboxes, and no time living their lives.
One of the secrets of managing your time in this hectic world, and of keeping some sort of grip on things, is to reduce the number of your inboxes to the minimum, and this is one of the reasons why I won't join things like Flickr and so on. I sometimes envy people like my mother, who had a letter-box and an analogue telephone (with a real dial), and that was how you communicated with her if you couldn't visit in person. In many ways it makes life much simpler and sometimes I feel nostalgic for it. On the other hand, I have just had superfast fibre-optic broadband installed, and signed up for a new mobile phone contract (50% cheaper than the last one - see http://www.billmonitor.com/) . But I sure as hell don't want to spend my life checking any more inboxes than I already have. B > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Ann Sanfedele > Sent: 27 May 2011 18:28 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PDML Flickr Group goes live to much fanfare > > Miserere wrote: > > >On 25 May 2011 22:30, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >>So, when I post a peso from flickr, should I also post it to the pdml > group? Or are you looking it keep it to the collaborative project? > >> > >>It's easy enough to do, just click Actions-> post to group-> pdml > >>-- > >>Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > >> > >> > > > >I would post the PESO to the PDML while adding the pic to the PDML > Flickr group. > > > > > > > > > Just so you know - I did, I confess, thought you were suggesting > moving > PDML over to flicker somehow... > Although it is difficult for a number of reasons, I do look at photos > posted here by people on flicker , though > less often than if they are not .. > > I wonder if people on macs or with the latest WIndoze stuff (7) have > less problems. > > If I just click on the link from the list in NEtscape it freezes my > computer.. so I need to cut and paste... > if people have put brackets around the links I have to "Reply" to their > messages so I can cut the < >'s out. > > Miserere - just wanted you to know that I don't think what you really > mean to do is bad conceptually, its > just that flicker does really give me a hard time . I can't look at > photos with white backgrounds on the web - > thas my eye problem. > > From an asesthetic point of view, once I could click and see the stuff > on a black background (which I found by accident > when I tired to enlarge a photo) then I ws fine.. but it is slow going. > (I have XP, btw) And from a purely aesthetic point of view,. > I hate square thumbnails - unless the original is square. > > I groan at the thought of adding another place to log into -its just > too cumbersome for me.. I can barely deal with > my website and ebay and cafepress and the list... can't bring myself to > blog, never go to discussion groups where > the interface is web based like the Pentax official one or Dgrin... > well, almost never. I barely even look at the > mail regarding Scrabble anymore. and Facebook I only go to under > duress > and I don't even read the comments if > any peopl make on my own web page - email is my friend. > > So sorry I'm no gonna collaborate and sorry I misunderstood > originally... > When Godders was here he was joking about telling someone who had > complained about the chit chat and not enough tech talk when he joined > the list, Godders told me he quipped to his friend something like "Its > a social list of people with a Pentax habit" > > But despite that aspect, there is tons of good info here and comraderie > so I got scared for a minute that it would be taken away - > and really, my only way to communicate on line comfortably is in email > - > where I can set the screen color to a soothing 18% gray, > make the font REALLLLLY big and see what I'm doing. > > ann > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
