{"id":1383,"date":"2012-02-29T05:45:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T10:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rockwellblake.com\/blog\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2014-11-27T19:11:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T23:11:14","slug":"clicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/29\/clicking\/","title":{"rendered":"Clicking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you a novice WebSerfer?<\/a>\u00a0 If you are well acquainted with the way things work in Web Ville you can stop reading now.\u00a0 If you are still learning how to get around the Internet, I\u2019m talking to you.\u00a0 You may have missed the crumbs I have tossed around the text of RockwellBlake.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Where I have wanted to add content but not words, where attribution is my intent but I don\u2019t want to clutter the text with titles, authors, sources and definitions, I have made the text \u201cLive\u201d. \u00a0That is to say, if you use your mouse<\/a>, you know, that thing under your right or left hand.\u00a0 Use that mouse to direct your cursor<\/a> (the thing that moves around on the computer screen when you push that mouse around on the horizontal surface supporting that mouse which is under your hand) over a word that looks a little funny. You know, blue or red or underlined or just plain different from the text surrounding it, and click on the word, book title or whatever.\u00a0 Please take note: that is not a double click, or even a triple<\/a>.\u00a0 One click is enough\u2026. Oh, by the way, the button to click, according to standard practice, is the one on the left side of the mouse.\u00a0 Please remember this for future reference.\u00a0 That right side of the mouse button is the one you don\u2019t use until you receive a special instruction to \u201cright click<\/a>\u201d on something.\u00a0\u00a0 Not that everyone will profit from this rumination, and that is why I tried to put you off reading this far down the page if you are already tired of this old news.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have a soft spot in my heart for anyone who profits from this little blog.\u00a0 A long time ago in a city far away I noticed an Apple store with a big sign out front. They were letting people take a Macintosh home for an overnight visit. Well, you can imagine my delight to be able to play with a new machine <\/a>that was such a big deal<\/a> way back then.\u00a0 Anyway I got the Mac all set up and guess what.\u00a0 I couldn’t do anything with it.\u00a0 I did not know that I had to \u201cDouble Click\u201d.\u00a0 Few moments in my life were more frustrating than that evening when I gave up, unplugged everything and got that computer ready to take back to the store.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This brings me back to my intended reader.\u00a0 If you are from my generation<\/a>, or just technophobic<\/a>, I hope you will click on anything that looks different on these pages and blogs.\u00a0 I think of it as an egg hunt or a virtual adventure.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I know this may seem totally useless to the \u201cin crowd\u201d, but at least one person out there surfing the net missed my crumbs because the stuff I just talked about was new to that person.\u00a0 This little blog is for those who may come to read and need this primer<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you a novice WebSerfer?\u00a0 If you are well acquainted with the way things work in Web Ville you can stop reading now.\u00a0 If you are still learning how to get around the Internet, I\u2019m talking to you.\u00a0 You may have missed the crumbs I have tossed around the text of RockwellBlake.com.\u00a0 Where I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,73,52],"tags":[77,75,27,74,76,61,72],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","category-mechanics","category-personal-history","tag-crumbs","tag-cursor","tag-internet","tag-mouse","tag-old-news","tag-rock-eater","tag-tenor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC00698-800x533.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2kj1l-clicking","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}