Technical Issues and How To information

I've been having problems posting to the blog lately. I wrote up a lovely post about what my job is like and for some reason it won't post. I can't post at all using my computer, and whenever I email the blog contents to Dave (so I can post it using his computer, like I'm doing now) or myself (so I can post at work), it doesn't arrive. Very peculiar. (You'd think I could figure it out as a former tech support rep for the very email I'm using... ) My computer has been acting strange in general lately. Next time I turn it on I'll put the post on a USB disc so that I don't have to rely on the internet to transmit it. Just know that it is on the way. Some day soon you will get to learn about what it is I do all day.

In the meantime, here are a few How to's for those of you who are relatively new to reading blogs. If you get the email version, remember you can post comments if you go to the website version, located at www.nielsam.com. You can ask questions and we will follow them up in future posts so other people can read the answers too. Or you can just let us know you're reading the blog.

If you missed some posts or want to read the older posts again, you can read older posts by clicking on the archive links on the left side of our website. (By the way, the blog titles listed on the left are always the ten posts previous to whichever you are reading, but since it is only ten posts, you need to use the archive links to get older ones.) By clicking on the archive from 08/01/2005 - 08/31/2005, for example, the website will pull up all of our posts in August, but only the last ten will be listed by post title. So, to read the very first post in August, you have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the website because they are posted in reverse chronological order.