Help Help Hell Born Premature Understand Nothing

[Caro]

Originally Posted by starshooter

i think what you were referring to are called "crackers", not "hackers" and there's a huge difference between these two groups of people...

Ah yes - I'm just getting used to that new term "crackers". (we use it here to describe a slightly 'unusual' aka crazy lol person )

Though the people who had their various sites invaded call it hacking - and they are techies themselves...

How do you define the difference?

Caro

[eliterate]

thank you very much ed, have only just found your reply becouse I was whallowing in misery at my incompetance (and lack of spelling skills) thankyou again. elizabeth

[eliterate]

Originally Posted by mindykoch

eliterate, I am so glad you spoke up! That alone is the reason I know you are going to be just fine. If you will just keep speaking up when you have questions, you are going to get all the intensive care you need. I think we all remember what it was like to be the new kid on the block and the best thread of hope I can extend is... Baby, we have all been there! If we could do this, you can do this. You will be able to tag along. Especially if you keep speaking up, find a supportive team, and keep trying every step of the process. I have complete faith in you!

dear Mindy, thank you so much for replying. Have only just seen it due to my self induced sulk at being so useless. Thanks again and brace yourself for more silly moans from me! Elizabethxxxx

[eliterate]

Originally Posted by webmack

You'll do fine here.

Just take your time, breathe through your nose, enjoy the learning, continue to ask for help when you need it - you will come to appreciate the intelligence, wisdom and generosity of this community.

And if you can continue to churn out attention-grabbing headlines like

Help Help Hell Born Premature Understand Nothing

you'll soon have a devoted following.

Best of luck - Mack

Oh yeah - something practical: I use a simple spreadsheet to keep track of accounts, user names, passwords, etc. Google docs works fine. Lots easier than all the cryptic sticky notes that used to festoon my monitor...

Dear Mack, oh dear have only just seen your reply and 'thank you' to the power of a trillion. I get so excited at the idea of understanding the web and then sink in to the depths of primal sludge when nothing seems to work. At school my biology prof noticed that my experiments were totally atipique. Thank you again for sending me a message. Elizabeth

[eliterate]

Originally Posted by Annie Binns

No worries!! Take one pre-season lesson and watch the video and play around with what Ed is teaching. Then do another one. You have plenty of time to work on the pre-season training links before these guys really get rolling. And once they do roll, they give you information on a very manageable daily (usually) basis.

It's so much fun that after the first few days you will find yourself checking the training section HOURLY because you can't wait for the next lesson.

I can barely use a cell phone and my shoes have Velcro instead of laces -- so if I can do this, you can do it!!

Dear Annie, thank you so much for writing. I really sank in to a primal sludge about the 30 day thing. i seem to understand everything but nothing works! thank you again for writing; you make me happy!!!!!!!!!!!!! elizabeth

[eliterate]

Originally Posted by webmack

You'll do fine here.

Just take your time, breathe through your nose, enjoy the learning, continue to ask for help when you need it - you will come to appreciate the intelligence, wisdom and generosity of this community.

And if you can continue to churn out attention-grabbing headlines like

Help Help Hell Born Premature Understand Nothing

you'll soon have a devoted following.

Best of luck - Mack

Oh yeah - something practical: I use a simple spreadsheet to keep track of accounts, user names, passwords, etc. Google docs works fine. Lots easier than all the cryptic sticky notes that used to festoon my monitor...

Dear Mack, do you think there is a team out there that will welcome a huge laibility? elizabeth paris

[eliterate]

hello Tamsin, thankyou for answering and your good advice. I live near Paris and if you want to visit you are very welcome. Would love to hear from you again elizabethparis@orange.fr

[lisahartwell]

Elizabeth, do me a favour and just......Breathe!

Everytime you start to panic because you don't understand something, take and deep breath and calm down.

You need to tell yourself that you will understand these things and you will get to grips with all the teaching. Constantly telling yourself that you are not clever and not able to understand the internet will attract more confusion.

And tell others that you may be new but you are keen to learn and have skills in other areas - then you are more likely to attract team members.

At the moment the preseason is all about tools. The reason we are tackling these before the challenge because they require some getting used to.

So, if you have a problem, please post it in as much details as possible. Someone will attempt to answer it. All the moderators on the forum have different skills too, so it depends on the subject as to whether they can answer your question. Eventually, someone will come along who can offer advice.

The more you panic and stress over the small things the more likely you are to give up because you see it as a huge obstacle. Instead view these difficulties as minor hurdles that you can easily get over.

Lisa

[webmack]

Originally Posted by eliterate

Dear Mack, do you think there is a team out there that will welcome a huge laibility? elizabeth paris

Yep, Elizabeth, I'm pretty sure that's what every team is looking for - a huge liability...

Seriously, you'll do fine in the 30DC (and have more fun) if you stop defining yourself and introducing yourself to others as a huge liability. It's OK to come here with zero experience and zero knowledge - that doesn't mean you are incompetent, useless, or some form of primal sludge.

Lighten up on yourself, head on over to the Team Talk Forum and introduce yourself as a curious, enthusiastic fellow learner. You won't have any problem finding teammates.

By the way, you already have mad skillz - you rank in the top 20 on Google for "atipique." Well played.

[MarkFishgrab]

or just write them all on the underside of your keyboard like I do.