"Put a link on the Internet" to .. what?

[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

OK, this isn't nearly as good a story as teenage horse porn, but ..

"I want to make a link for people to type in my email and be directed to my web page."

OK .. where? On what page? Or did you want to embed it in an email you're spam- uhh- sending out to people?

It went downhill from there.

The worst thing about teaching idiots buzzwords is that they use them as indiscriminately as they use everything else, and bumble around until they find a meaningful combination by accident. The best thing is that they're usually trying to do something that's not even theoretically possible because what they think they want doesn't actually exist, or they're trying to do something I don't have to help them do on the phone. Like edit the HTML for their site.

(oh, and the real beauty of this one is that she turned out to want the search engines to bring up her page when people searched for her email address, which is something that will usually be done for her when the search engines index her page. Assuming she didn't want her page to pop up every time anyone types her email for any purpose in anything, which is something I'm kind of glad people like her can't do ..)

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[sheryls.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD THE SMOKER COMPUTER.

nothing worse than opening a computer and having it smell like a freaking ashtray. actually, it's worse than an ashtray, it's like sticky, sickening, at least 4 year old tobacco resin. ugh. once we thought one of the computers in for repair was a beige case..and it was sticky to the touch. one of my coworkers shot the Fantastik at it...and as the brown dripped down the side, we realized: that case was grey.

yu-uck. and all the dustbunnies inside have solidified and..alsdkfja;sdlkfja.

thank god i quit smoking. and when i did smoke i didnt do it indoors.

and yes. usually every holiday we go to my fiancee's parents house, at least one day is spent blowing the dust out of their pc, ridding it of the 13 viruses and 200 pieces of spy/ad/malware they've managed to build up. "it just got so slow for some reason!"

[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's at least anorder of magnitude worse than an ashtray. I grew up around chainsmoking parents, I know ashtrays. The crud that condenses inside a computer over years of being around smokers is a whole hell of a lot nastier. And toxic. Rumor has it there are serious OSHA regulations about working around or breathing that stuff .. although most places that actually do repairs ignore most of them.

What's even funnier is people think we don't *know* they smoke around the computer ..

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Worse: Heavy smoker with a rabbit cage next to the air intake...

[sheryls.livejournal.com]

UGH.