Redecorating

A bit of redecorating on the ole blog has resulted in a bit of seasonal dressing.

The free backgrounds available on the Cutest Little Blog On the Block are great but I noticed on several blogs that the background margins overprinted the text. This is just a matter of adjusting the width of the blog text. I tried it out on my own blog. Here's how: change the header-wrapper width and the outer-wrapper width from 800px (that's pixels) to 775px. It drew in the text margins just enough so they are not overprinting into the side margins of the background template.

Your mileage may vary.

*Photo courtesy of Microsoft Clipart

I am begging you

Please, please...

If you leave a message on someone's blog and expect a reply, please make sure you have an email address visible instead of no-reply @ blogger. This seems to be prevalent lately and I get really frustrated when I compose a reply to a comment and then look at the email address. *sigh*.

Don't know how to make your email address visible on comments? Here's a quick tutorial:

• You need to log into your blogger account 
• and go to 'Edit Profile'. It's right under your picture in the Dashboard (that's the first page that opens up when you log in). 
• In the first section labeled 'Privacy' you should have 'Show My Email Address' checked. 
• Now scroll down until you see 'Identity'. 
• See where it says 'Email Address'? 
• Type your email addy there. 
• Don't forget to scroll all the way to the bottom and click on 'Save Changes'.

Old School

The CarGuy watches a lot of Discovery Channel. Especially the, you guessed it, car and motorcycle shows. There is one show that always talks about 'old school'.

Well, I went 'old school' today. I needed a list of the files in a folder. The only way I know to get that in a Windows system is to use the 'print screen' function. What a pain. This folder contained more than one screenful of files. So I decided to go 'old school' and use MS-DOS.

Here's what I did:
1. Open a command window by clicking on the start button and then clicking on 'Run'. In the window type: cmd.exe and click 'OK'.
2. Change directory to the proper directory (folder)
3. Type in: dir_>_output.txt (where the _ is a space) (this puts a list of the files into a text file.
4. Type in: output.txt (this opens up the file in notepad.
5. Print from here

Hope this wasn't too technical for you.