31st January 2001

Working with tech novices can be frustrating at times, but you can learn a lot from a "dummy." I use that term VERY loosely; at one time, I was one. In many ways, I never outgrew the label. Anyway, there's a crucial member of the Lockergnome team who isn't terribly into technology. No worries; I've learned to listen to the frustrations and watch the workarounds. That's a tip in and of itself; take note, geeks! I was away from the office and someone needed to find out what font I used for Lockergnome's Web site. Comic Sans MS, for what it's worth -- but they didn't know that. Using logic, one of them copied some text directly from LOCKERGNOME.COM then pasted it into Microsoft Word. That braniac KNEW the rich text formatting would be preserved when it was pasted into the document. From there, the team observed the "Comic Sans MS" font face listed in the toolbar. I would have NEVER thought of doing that in a million years. Intelligence comes from those who know far less. That's ponderous, man. Ponderous.