OK. Here goes one of my shameless confessions. It is time to admit the truth. Time to bare even more of my inadequacy in front of the entire world of TOTV.
Here goes....
Sometimes I have one heckuva time doing a search on TOTV.
Now, just so you know, I am a girl who sort of, kind of, a little bit, maybe knows her way around boolean technique. I can Google 'til the cows come home. I know about keywords. Really.
But for some reason, every once in awhile, I get all bogged down when I try to do a search here.
Just now, I was looking for a recent thread. I knew the title of the thread even. I plugged it in. I told it to look for threads.
Wellll, I know for a fact that it did not look.
That search engine, or whatever it is called, lied to me. LIED TO ME!!!!
It told me it could not find any matches.
Welllll, I knew better. I knew there was a match out there. So I just showed that old search thingy. I sure did.
You see, sometimes I remember pieces of information that are most often completely useless. But in this case, that ability turned out not to be useless. For some reason, I remembered who started the thread. And so I went to that person's page and I clicked on the list of thread starts there and AHA!!!!! There was the thread.
I went through that whole rigmarole after having tried 3 different times to get it under "Search."
Now before anybody gets all into thinking that I am either a dingbat or that I am just griping, I must tell you true that Patience is not my middle name where computer stuff is concerned. So I am sure this is just me -- and my problem. But I still need help. Help!
Please, SOMEBODY PLEASE, explain to me, in succinct terms, how to do a search on TOTV. A search that works every time.
There is a treasure of information in this place. But sometimes I can find what I am looking for and sometimes I cannot.
Where oh where do I go wrong? Will somebody please point me toward the card catalogue?
Thanks.
Oh, and here is a little song that came to mind while I was writing this plea for mercy. I sometimes think in old song lyrics. I know. It's weird. But I do. And this song came to mind. And I bet most of you remember it. Even though we were in the fetal stage at the time......Yeah, right....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nTbEJ1SYN4
Boomer