~ 2008-10-13: Discovered that when I try to edit a migrated page the entire page gets messed up. That did not happen in AOL Journals. As it is, I have several issues with Blogger's platform, but I am going to stick it out here anyway. This Sprintedon blog has many internal links, and because I cannot easily change them here, I am changing them over at AOL. That is, I am replacing the AOL-type links with Blogger-type links. They work, and my entry doesn't get all messed up. Alas, I will have to delete this migration and try again with the fixed one. Hope I make it by month's end. ----- 2008-10-14: Think I solved my problem. I had chosen the yes option for the Convert Line Breaks box under Formatting in Settings. It is now set at no, and my pages are no longer getting messed up. ----- 2008-10-17: Have been busy updating my site map and the hubs and sub-hubs. Most of them now are correct for here. Need to check each post in this blog yet for internal links and other problems. Wish I knew an easy way to go from post to post. Over at AOL I could. More later. - 9:45 PM - Am fairly sure I've completed the hub and sub-hub updating, but I will check tomorrow. ----- 2008-10-19: I must say that having to move from the AOL to the Google galaxy has been teaching me useful procedures, thank you. ----- 2008-10-22: I did find that if I use the back arrow after I have published a changed post from the edit view area/ I am taken back to the post as it was before I changed it, but if I use the back arrow again/ I am taken back to the edit view area/ where I can then proceed to the next post I either want to edit and/or view. - 9:25 PM Have been taking out Technorati tags as I find them since labels are used here. Have around 150 posts to check yet. I know errors will remain, but I can do close text checks on other days. Changing the internal AOL links to Blogger-style links was my first concern. This blog will continue on, but not as it did when it was an AOL Journal blog. Rhodingeedaddee is my core blog here. ----- 2008-10-24: Am working my way, newest to oldest, through Sprintedon Migrataurus in order to (mainly) discover labels for posts. Am also removing all Technorati tags. ----- 2008-10-28 - 10:08 PM Just finished placing labels on the posts in this blog. There is more to do, but I feel better now. Had to place the labels list near the blog's bottom because I needed a template with a wide body and I did not want a long list to come ahead of this blog's posts. post 1006
Thinking Lizard
About Me
- brian (baj) salchert
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Friday, October 24, 2008
Experiment
Saturday, February 2, 2008
sw00792st93-before.during.redesigns
Five to eight times this year I have gone through the entries in this journal: redesigning, correcting errors, and/or double-checking. Daily life needs and sanity diversions often interrupted those runs. On one run I deleted my name from most entries. Then, within three hours after posting an entry which did not reveal my name/ someone went to my archives, took a picture of it, and shared it with a large site as though that someone had written it. Somewhat reluctantly/ I put my name on that entry. A day later (best I could tell through a Google search) that large site had either hidden or removed it. Honestly, what I posted wasn't to my mind all that special; but I would not care if some other person or persons used it as the base for something better. The main point here is that: in putting my name back on my entries, I was led to make other design changes. Wherever I saw entry-specific redundancies, I deleted what was redundant. Example: If in an entry's subject "poem15" appeared, and in that entry's body "poem 15" appeared, I removed the "poem 15" in its body because the subject matter is always boldly transferred to the top of that entry's body it relates to. Another such concerns the name I have given my journal (blog). That name shows in archives; besides, I have concluded it is just an added distraction; and, what if I one day decide to change this journal's name. That is not likely to happen, but having to remove the old name from who-knows-how-many entries// would not be a pleasure. What is most important are the subject and the body text pertaining to the subject. So, to the bottom of an entry go those journal-related bits of info I consider useful: the link to the homepage, my name, the AOL-provided entry number. Of course, these bits are not/ absolutes. - Have been thinking about it over lunch: am going on an entry-#-removal tour/ because my rationale for posting them/ has lost what little validity it originally had. That is why the crust of snow we got Thursday is melting. . 10:49 PM - Unless I missed one (or more), my tour concluded at 10:48. Actually did not expect to get done today. Will need to go back and check links, a task which will take a long while. There are also some other not-quite-right situations. - Brian A. J. Salchert
Monday, January 28, 2008
sw00791st92-latest.redesign
Last night I began another major redesign of this journal (blog). This page will serve as an example of what I am doing, but here are some details. The number which had been in the upper left corner/ will now be in the lower right corner. That number aids me in that it is the necessary Entry number AOL assigns to each entry (post). Every URI/URL in this environment--as I made note of months ago--has a specific structure which must be adhered to. The last partition of that structure contains the Entry number for the URI/URL it pertains to. The second last partition is for the subject information. It is the only place where changes can easily be made. The words "Sprintedon Hollow" will only appear where needed. The link to the homepage is being moved from its top right location to the bottom center location. Entry-specific information will now be given immediate visibility. Example: when an entry deals with more than two topics, each topic will be revealed on that entry's first body-text line unless in the subject space I have provided a general identity for its topics. My "piks" entries are designed less strictly. What gets shown depends on the body text presented. Still, somewhere on each photo entry the number for that entry will be shown. On occasion a photo or a scanned object will be on a non-piks entry. - Brian A. J. Salchert
Saturday, January 19, 2008
sw00786st89-notices
Through my window/ may be discontinued, or be weekly or monthly or only occasionally; or become something different such as a series of poems. Topics in general - 1) This Sprintedon Hollow journal 2) Poetics and/or other poets 3) Non-literary realms 4) Autobio vignettes RTJ (Regarding This Journal) group - Most of the 18 RTJ entries were indentified by posting-date in their subject space. Today I replaced those dates with content-revealing words. For one the words are: why.aol. st entries - Just finished adding the place-in-series number after each st in its subject space for the 2007 st entries/ and removing the st# information in the body of each 2007 st. Earlier I took out the dates in the January 2008 st entries and put somewhat vague but understandable information in. After today I will be limiting, if I can, a given st to one topic/ so that I can show that topic in the subject space. Surveys - Surveys annoy me. Too many confusing questions with allowed answers that exclude the answers I would give. - Brian A. J. Salchert
Friday, January 18, 2008
sw00785st88-update.report
Not totally finished, but all the major updates have been completed and I've begun working on second-level updates. Have opted to let users know where to find certain entries in the archives, and reduce the number of internal links. Am also adding "whatz-there" info to st entries, and I may yet have to provide links in the new st directory. As you can see, I've kept the st #, but I'm in a quandary about it. If I decide in favor of the #, I will add a # to each of the older entries in the st group. If not, I will remove the numbers from January's st entries. Want to make this blog friendlier. So, unless somebody persuades me otherwise, tags and bold copyright notices on every entry are history. More descriptive Subject codes and what is at the bottom of this page are the new norm. It is 9:36 PM and I still am seeking places to improve this Sprintedon Hollow. May test all the available fonts. I like Verdana, but I wish there were a size between 2 and 3, or that 3 were smaller than it is. - Until I learn more about fonts, I will need to stay with Verdana 2 as the fonts available to me are Arial / Arial Black / Arial Narrow / Comic Sans MS / Courier New / New Times Roman / Verdana. Do not know why but true type fonts are weaker, i. e. they are lighter on an online page and therefore are lighter on a printout. The one advantage they have is that they allot an equal amount of space for each character, a fact which has its uses. I do use Courier New sometimes therefore. - Brian A. J. Salchert
Thursday, January 17, 2008
sw00784st87-2topics
Copyright Information - My project this week centers on replacing Copyright © 2007 Brian A. J. Salchert Thinking Lizard All rights reserved. (and the like) from each of this journal's entries with the statement at the bottom of this entry. Am presently about halfway through June 2007. Through my window - This apartment building is lengthwise parallel with the apartment building about 20 yards north, but this one (although the same size) does not extend as far west. The weed grass yard between the two is not level, and at this time of the year about 30% light tan. A walkway of spaced hexagonal blocks runs at an eastward angle from that building to this one, connecting two plank passthroughs between apartments in each building. That building is on lower ground, and a scant open culvert runs parallel to the buildings about 15 feet out from that building. This morning when I looked straight out a squirrel was moving along the walkway from there to here. That/ near/ 8:30 AM. Then 6 mourning doves/ closer to here were pecking in the grasses near the hex blocks. At 10:22, while I was seated on my computer stool, I noted dark things to my right. I went to the window and saw at least 50 starlings on or near the other building. At 12:51 PM in the sturdy bush the usual cardinal sat, and juncos flitted around. At 1 PM several starlings momently swooped in. Then I got seriously into re- doing my blog. More about the buildings another day. Much of today the sky was cloudy. It is cold, and a sprinkling of snow has remained on the grasses. - Brian A. J. Salchert
Sunday, November 25, 2007
sw00720st45-thinking
Appears the basic colors this journal uses will not be changing. This means the usual text colors will be black, and most other text colors will be dark shades. Blue will be the link color. The background colors and the sidebar color will be the 80ffff light aqua/cyan, the c0c0c0 gray, and the 808080 gray. I am trying to quell my urges to/ change this journal's basic colors. There are times when consistency is not foolish. After posting a comment relevant to/ where geniuses come from and a 10,000 poets list idea at Ron Silliman's site, I decided/ that was the nth of what I cared to write there. So I applaud his new approach to handling comments. See Sunday, November 25, 2007. This evening I placed a comment relating to one item in Silliman's The Chinese Notebook at the connection above. Tomorrow I will check again to see if he allowed it. Did it in part to veer from the flow of comments about his comments decision. Was also at Mark Wallace's site. I had placed a comment there which I found he had responded to. I responded to it, and he again responded to me. I like Mark Wallace's thinking here. - Brian A. J. Salchert
Thursday, November 8, 2007
sw00690st33-blog.design
SH690update Hopefully, I've at last settled on at least the page, text, and link colors for this blogging endeavor. A silver gray (c0c0c0 / 192 192 192) is the page background color. The basic text color is black. Since the gray I'm using accommodates it well, the link color is blue. I may yet make heading background and sidebar color changes. Am beginning to settle into specific presentation patterns. The first line on most pages (entries) will be as it is on this page, beginning with the page's AOL entry number followed by this journal's name and a link to the site map along with one to the homepage. The last line on most pages (entries) will be as it is on this page because, even though placing copyright information on each page is not necessary, I want to reveal that information. See Homepage for related details. Had been conscientiously placing in each entry one or more extra- site links. That practice has been stopped in favor of only placing such links in an entry when they are pertinent. - Brian A. J. Salchert
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
sw00649st20-menagerie
00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99 aa bb cc dd ee ff For clarity's sake, I am going to let "a" = 10, "b" = 11, "c" = 12, "d" = 13, "e" = 14, and "f" = 15. ff = 255 and f0 = 255 - 15 = 240. ee = 238 and e0 = 238 - 14 = 224 | dd = 221 and d0 = 221 - 13. 17 is the difference between each adjacent set. 17 x 15 = 255. So, cc = 204 and c0 = 204 - 12 = 192. This page's background color is 8080c0 in HEX, or 128 128 192 in RGB. - Did get rain yesterday amid the gusts. Slept only 3 hours during the night: from near midnight to near three. The winds were quiet, but I had a physical problem that made me afraid to get back in bed. As it has been chilly, about every 50 minutes the heat flowed 9 minutes, going from near 70 to near 75. Before dawn/ the gusts returned and stayed, though they seem weaker and less prevalent than they were yesterday. It is AM 9:40. PM 5:22 - Sky is clear. PM 7:33 - 53.1° - Added some information to S H's site map and Autobio links entries so visitors will know Autobio contains an e-chap and where the 16 poems in it are. Am next going to the homepage about this. Well, I went, I saw, and I went away/ because I could possibly add other poems to Autobio. - PM 4:41 - If I didn't miss an entry, January is updated. - S T is becoming such a catchall/ it might also replace Regarding This Journal. - Tony Tost on being poetically out/in -- "Monday Evening Ideogram" 2007-10-22 ------------------------- teAchnology - about us - Brian A. J. Salchert
Monday, October 22, 2007
sw00648st19-war.religions
Overcast day with winds whooing and sometimes wheweeing. The storminess that was hanging out to the west of us appears at this PM 12:37 to be edging closer, partly because the storm band has widened. I'll know soon. - Continued updating. Made several homepage changes. Have begun working on January. Having changed the page background from 808080 to 8080c0 forced me make color changes on some entries. Shades of red have been problematical from the first. 808080's luminosity is 120. 8080c0's luminosity is 151. It seems kickin' crazy that I'm using colors I've been avoiding, but this page color, this purpled gray, is both soft and more luminous, and so it does not blare at my eyes and it contrasts well with black text. Even the link color I've been using seems more solid on this shade. - ------------------------- Ken Wilber's "Why Do Religions Teach Love and Yet Cause So Much War?" - Brian A. J. Salchert
Saturday, October 20, 2007
sw00646st17-blogcolors.and
Although I'm not an investor, I was in AOL's finance area earlier, reading about and taking notes on 15 stocks and 1 fund featured courtesy of Kiplinger. - Since the history of my writing life has lately become for me more important than the value of it, I may place my first poems (those I still have) up in this journal. The contrast between what I wrote then and much of what I have written this year is, I think, extreme and bewildering. - Just changed sidebar color. See homepage for code. - PM 2:23 - Today and tomorrow it might make it to 80, but the following three days it won't make it to 60: vuva-vuva-vuva-vuva. - Can't stop dickering with/ this blog's colors. - Florida beat Kentucky, and are now 5-and-2. - ------------------------- teach peace - Brian A. J. Salchert
Friday, October 19, 2007
sw00645st16-laborings
Hovering around 70 today. The sky's clear. The air's mild. - October changes are holding sway, leading me to do things one might not expect I would do. - Anyone know what a robin's egg tastes like? - Let's see: Have updated November, December, March, July, September, October. February is going to be the last month updated. It has the most entries. - Because I spent the earlier hours of this day laboring in here*, I haven't felt well since. Still have plenty to do; nonetheless, what I've accomplished I needed to, and am satisfied with. . * my apartment - ------------------------- teach tolerance - Brian A. J. Salchert
Thursday, October 18, 2007
sw00644st15-experiments
Much of what passes for and of/ life on this planet, passes because of what we (as individuals and as a community) do not know/ those moments/ when possessing the requisite knowledge or possessing it with sufficient confidence would have prevented a life from passing. - Via the Welcome screen/ I did some body . aol . com searches this morning, and will be entering yet another experimental health period. I have some lifelong afflictions I have been for years trying to cure or at least ameliorate, but most of what I have tried--much of which is still being recommended--did not work for me. Often those remedies made matters worse. There are numerous drugs, however helpful, I am at a point of refusing to use/ because of their side effects. I want those ingredients known to work. Therefore, though I find it difficult to eat nuts, I am going to try// eating walnuts. (One of my searches encountered a study which reveals the value of a walnut ingredient for warding off pancreatic cancer.) If I didn't have to eat walnuts to get that ingredient, but could get it in some liquid form, I would. Will post about my various food consumption and other experiments as I reach conclusions about them. Chocolate is one. Healthful as it is, what if one is allergic to it/ as I was when I was a child? The only without-a-test way I can find out is by eliminating it from my diet for several weeks. - Am diddling with my IE background colors this clear, cool, breezy day. - PM 2:44 Now, as small scattered puffy clouds ease east, I'm diddling with my blog colors. See new codes near bottom of homepage. ------------------------- Nemerov's "The Blue Swallows" poem with commentary and swallow photo - Brian A. J. Salchert
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
sw00643st14-updating
Since the inclusion of a slant homepage for Sprintedon Hollow, I have been (when I am in the mood for it) busy updating this journal once again. Today is such a day. The major benefit of this has been the finding of internal link errors. I use HTML, and AOL Journals has a built-in link-error detector. I have an MS operating system, and presently my 5 IE general-use rgb's are: 000 000 000 for text, 170 170 153 for page background, 000 255 255 for hover, 153 000 000 for visited link, and 000 000 153 for unvisited link. When I click on Edit Entry, the entry goes to TEXT mode, and the entry's colors become the IE general-use colors. If a link to another entry exists on the accessed entry, and that link's color comes up blue instead of red, something is wrong with that link's code. Conversely, if after a link has been inserted, and the entry's scroll bar has not been moved when the journal's scroll bar is moved down so that the page can be saved, and the inserted link comes up red when Save is clicked, that link's code is right. Therefore, I am trying to train myself to check the internal link colors when I click Edit Entry. ------------------------- Magic Smoke - Brian A. J. Salchert
Saturday, September 1, 2007
sw00611aih-9and
As It Happens 13 Had to turn on the heat this morning. 69 is a bit chilly for me. Welcome to September. § Finally finished posting 49 selected sonnets from my 1976: in 2006. Did the last six between 10 and 11 PM Aug31. Two of those were written in 1962. If you chance to read some, experience them however your aesthetic allows. Further information and links here. My aesthetic is chameleon-like, kaleidoscopic, cornucopian, uncertainty-driven. I am a hermit, a mystery munchkin, a ponderer. I'm a creature of contraries: emotionally edgy, yet rationally embedded with aspie characteristics. § I still have six months of first line and topic work to complete, and I am not in a get-it-done mood. § For the past week or so there's been a cicada or some such critter whining ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee most of the night. It usually starts its concert around 9 PM. Luckily I'm able to sleep through it. ----------------------------------- History of Labor Day Brian A. J. Salchert
Monday, July 23, 2007
sw00540rtj-first.last.codes.by.month
Regarding This Journal - E17 Entries so far by monthly major interior first and last codes: nov _ p00001aqi - sw00046usabys dec _ sw00047usabys - sw00056usabysc jan _ sw00057jc - sw00137pc feb _ sw00138olp - sw00241aih mar _ sw00242aih - sw00295math apr _ sw00296a - sw00356a may _ sw00357ut - sw00437a jun _ sw00438june - sw00527june jul _ sw00528ut [ These can be used at Google. ] [ Those ending with a "c" are contents entries which may have links to the contents listed. ] Brian A. J. Salchert
Thursday, July 19, 2007
sw00538rtj-search.testings
Regarding This Journal - Searching Sprintedon Hollow E16 [ 2007-07-20 update: Do read what is beneath this update. The most important month in my journal is March of 2007. Today I learned at Google how to access my archives one month at a time; but I have since learned I can only access the month in which my journal began. Don't ask why. Here is what is required: the first 3 sections of my URL demarcated from each other by a / with another / following the third section; then a section named archive (followed by another /); then the year of the archive being sought (followed by a /); then the number of the month being requested. This is how a November 2006 search looks minus the /'s: journals.aol.com thinkinglizard bajs archive 2006 11 So, 5 /'s will be needed. ] Since AOL uses Google Search, whatever works at the latter will also work here. The reason I have here replaced my usual Journal Links Center signifier set with SH sitemap: p00260jlctr is my extra-reason desire to emphasize the p00260jlctr signifier in its set because I also wish to emphasize the value of the like in my Sprintedon Hollow URI-URL signifier sets. As I have noted elsewhere, this journal can be searched (among the many other ways it can be searched) through the use of p00260jlctr alone or any similar SH signifier such as sw00537ut, which is the one just before this entry's sw00538rtj. To repeat further: "sw", which once represented Salchert's Weblog, now represents the "s" in Sprintedon and the "w" in Hollow. If I haven't made an error somewhere, "00538" represents entry 538. The signifier for the entry where this journal's alpha codes are explained is: sw00254rtj wherein the "rtj" represents Regarding This Journal. The "ut" above represents The Undulant Trees which is a book of mostly old poems I have not yet completed. Impediments!: I am, as I normally do, testing and testing; and, alack and alas, I have discovered that AOL does not search this site as Google does.So, here are some test results along with information pertaining to them. - : In AOL's search-this-site mode, tags take precedence; but not really. Best I can figure/ AOL wants a searcher to go to this journal's Journal Links Center or to this journal's archives. One entry I can access three ways; another I cannot access at all. There is no consistency. Besides, getting to 2006 is unnecessarily difficult. - : At Google, though tags are important there also, I am able to use the signifier type shown above. - : I am not in the mood to do so, but I am, therefore, going to return to using tlbajs# signifiers such as tlbajs260; or, whatever signifier or signifier set seems best to use for access here. - : Have concluded I need to change the names of some of my entries. Pooper scooper. By the way, AOL is not "Hell". There are things I can create here I cannot create elsewhere or definitely cannot create as easily elsewhere. Just certain things here are trying me; but if I am anything at all, I am persistent. "How Internet Search Engines Work" by Curt Franklin Brian A. J. Salchert
Thursday, July 5, 2007
sw00530rtj-why.aol
Regarding This Journal Internal Changes - - - E15 In spite of certain negatives, the positives here supercede what I have found elsewhere, especially for my creative projects, of which there will be many more, assuming I am granted the time to pursue and complete them. This entry is number 530, and I will not have been here a year until November 2nd passes. - I am shifting my writings about others to a Blogger blog, but what of that is already here will stay here. I know I could begin another journal in AOL space, but I have my reasons for not wanting to. If I ever decide to create a third blog, I will do so in yet another location. There are locations I will not venture into as they are too restrictive. That AOL in not forcing me to focus my journal on a specific topic (to belong to a foreign-to-me group) is the main reason I thought I might try journaling here a second time. That a female AOL representative convinced me significant improvements had been made here is why I did. However anyone or any entity views me, I am my own group. I cannot function in an Internet realm which refuses to sufficiently accommodate me. The end of my days as a viable human has become such a constant concern in my spirit it is as if it is a tangible creature, one that has found a rent-free space inside of me; but I am blessedly alive, and if no one visited my Sprintedon Hollow I could continue creating it in this space, given that this space or something in me did not prevent me from doing so. Besides, at least two of my entries have been linked to: one by a literary site and the other by a technology site. Shortly after I initiated this second journal in AOL space/ I ditched the visitor counter because it counted me as a visitor. There persists in me a wry strain of humor. - 9 of my books of poems are in this journal, plus 2 books which are in progress, plus the poems in my autobio entries. Paul Hoover on the powers of wonder Brian A. J. Salchert
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
sw00436rtj-codes.sitemap
[ last modified: 2007-06-04 ] Regarding This Journal Sprintedon Hollow Updating - E14 Have been updating this Sprintedon Hollow journal the last few days. Am not yet finished, but mostly finished. The sw00254jcctr entry was really an rtj entry. Accordingly, it is sw00254rtj-shj.codes.center now. My investigating has made clear to me the importance of what comes after the en dash. Therefore, my updates have concentrated on that portion of my URL structure. The "E14" above indicates that this is the 14th rtj entry. The "30may07entry" does not expressly reveal/ what type of entry it relates to, nor provide the sequence # for the entry; but, at this date, all regular rtj entries use this pattern. Admittedly I am experimenting. No other type of entry will use the pattern I am using for rtj entries. Throughout this journal each type of entry will use a pattern specific to it. I have assigned numbers to most of the central links sites. Instead of using simply "links" after an en dash, I am now using, for example, "links.entry5", which is the one for the math entries links site. Am considering placing a list on this page, but today I did just that at Sprintedon Hollow's Journal Links Center. Whenever I find that a further refinement needs to be made, I will make that refinement. I do not/ want/ to be ever making refinements, but things change and I must/ change with them. I have also been removing many tags, as I am learning more about what works best in that realm. - This journal's links center code is the Sprintedon Hollow code. It is the code for this journal's core sitemap/index/links entry. It is one of just two which I've allowed to retain the "sw-p". "00260jlctr" follow. Except for the few purposely singular entries in this journal, all of S H's entries can be accessed from there. No more than a search on this code is necessary. If you want to see the most recent entries however, link to the Sprintedon Hollow URL. In the code shown here the "jlctr" means Journal Links Center. As I have done on this page, each new page will show my journal's name, provide a link to my journal's Journal Links Center, and display thepage's AOL entry number in its upper right corner. Place your cursor over the Journal Links Center link to see its code. - - sitemap information at Wikipedia Brian A. J. Salchert
Friday, May 18, 2007
sw00428rtj-ascii.chart
Regarding This Journal E13 [ 2007-05-19: xdspny is a new code - it is for cross-disciplinary ] There was a time when I decided to not provide links to outside sites from entries in this journal. That time has passed. Today I decided I will provide at least 1 link to an outside site in each entry. In the prior entry there is one. I was earlier considering making these mystery links, but I may not. I know which one I am going to provide today, but I have not made a list. I will, however, be making a list for my own purposes. § I am still changing codes a little. One I plan to change later this afternoon is my "m" for math code to "math" since discovering "pind" for Prayers in December was preferable to just "p" for what I needed. § So, for those of you who use HTML, today's link is to a useful ASCII chart. You may wish to do as I have: place the link to it in your favorite sites section. Speaking of which, sort of, I learned how to code the section symbol I've twice used in this entry by referring to that chart. And those of you who already know HTML ASCII codes can just sit back and chuckle. I am not a tech geek. This forwards another point: most of the links I'm likely to provide will be ones to literary sites. Brian A. J. Salchert