a new thing
do i really learn a new thing everyday?
Friday, July 23, 2004
toy doll eroticons
hey you 2 (or 3 maybe, if i'm lucky!)... well, i just learnt something new about 5 minutes ago. it's a little bit nerdy / techno-geeky though so promise not to mock me for not having a life!
one of the interweb message forums that i frequent is the toy dolls's board, idle gossip and earlier today ki_boy complained that when he did smiley's :) etc that they were just showing up as exactly that- a colon and a 'close-bracket' (parenthesis? plural is parentheses so what's the singular?). anyway, i digress! when you type a smiley in a message it usually converts it to a
or a 
or various other smiley's. it worked on other peoples posts and so i set about todays task.
one of the interweb message forums that i frequent is the toy dolls's board, idle gossip and earlier today ki_boy complained that when he did smiley's :) etc that they were just showing up as exactly that- a colon and a 'close-bracket' (parenthesis? plural is parentheses so what's the singular?). anyway, i digress! when you type a smiley in a message it usually converts it to a
or a or various other smiley's. it worked on other peoples posts and so i set about todays task.a quick look through the settings (i never claimed it would be a dificult task!) and i found this:
Always enable Emoticons: Yes No
and i thought ah, that'll be it then! maybe he knocked one of these radio buttons. so i hit 'reply' to reply to his post and inform him of my findings and saw underneath the text area that there's a ticky-box for 'disable emoticons' so all my hard work was in vain! so, anyway, i learnt three things today:
- how to disable/enable emoticons on a cutecast message forum
- that there's usually a quicker way than my way, and
- parenthesis is the singular of parentheses (i checked at dictionary.com
wow, three new things today! and i still have to try and burn my first dvd-r tonight so i'm sure i may even learn more, but i'll not be greedy, three will do for now.
MaFt
