Dmitry has taught me the value of good design meeting documentation and how to really use it to move forward.
We are working with some fast-thinking researchers, who are great at talking through their design decisions. When they re-visit the decisions, they keep making use of the good notes from the previous meeting, in order to remember and pick up the thread of thinking and move forward.
I have never seen notes put to such positive use before. This is a Big Lesson for me.
Steve’s work Helpdesk asked him to reboot our household router to get his laptop to see the internet, even though he was not wireless, but wired, and the SAME wire worked perfectly in the family computer.
And it worked!
And now we both know to try this.
I learned how to add a button to share a post, from here, on Facebook!
When you see a post you want to share, click on Leave a Comment and you will see a new button to Share on Facebook.
You also see the button if you come into the blog and click on a calendar date.
This will put a link to the blog entry on your wall. Try it and tell me how it works and what you think. I suggest you find a favorite entry for that.
Thanks for playing along!
I learned how to make links in this blog!
I can make external links, such as this one to Sally’s blog.
I can make internal links, to an entry here in my blog such as this one with my first external link, to my fuel company.
Yay!
Gale taught me that there is a difference between having a personal Facebook page and a business one and that you can get in big trouble for using a personal page for business. It seems that many people don’t know this. But now you do.
From Gale:
“I learned that when the temp is this cold, my garage fridge turns itself off and the food in the freezer defrosts.”
I learned, from Gale as she learned from Dott, that she can fix her ongoing no-incoming-email problem by turning her Droid off and then turning it back on, at least once a day.
Too bad none of the techs in the Verizon store could tell her this!
I have learned SO much, today, about how to use Digital Credit Union’s deposit-from-your-computer function. Over the course of the day, I’ve gone from total frustration and a gazillion failed attempts, to a string to of two successes in a row, using the hints that came from my friends on Facebook!
Here’s the deal: When you hit the “scan” button, the DCU function controls the scanning settings, and is really stupid, with few options. Over and over, it could not detect the proper size of the back AND the image was too light.
So this is what works: scan the checks to a file (one front, one back) first. My superprinter does that quickly and well, with default settings. Then run PC Deposit, choosing the file option. It worked!
I got this idea from Rita, who said change the scan settings. PC Deposit won’t let you change settings but my scanner figured it out automatically! Judy said put a dot in every corner and that may have helped, I’ll try it without next time and see. Both of these ideas came from Facebook, within hours, and I would never have figured this out on my own.
Thanks, friends!
I have learned that my iPod and my heart rate monitor do not play well together.
It’s just a little Nano, and it doesn’t look like it would cause much interference, but sure enough, if I wear it at my waist, the receivers show all kinds of whacky numbers.
If I move the Nano to the treadmill (where Planet Fitness is cool enough to have an iPod-specific connector!), then the watch-receiver gives good numbers but the treadmill display gets confused. If I turn the iPod off, the watch and the treadmill both show the right numbers.
I have also learned that I really don’t need a heart rate monitor, because I can look at a number and say “that’s not right!”. I basically know my heart rate as I exercise, from all these years of learning how each rate feels.
But I love gadgets, so it’s nice to know how to make them work.
I learned that even though Verizon is ditching their “new phone every two years” plan, they will still honor discounts already earned by sticking with your old crappy phone for two years or more.
And I learned that if you get a heavily discounted phone and sign up your adult children for two more years, it doesn’t mean you are committed to keeping them on your plan. They can move their contract to their own deal without penalty, at any time.
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