I feel like I have a lot to add, but my brains a bit addled. So I'll only say this (and it may drive Tom mad) all that stuff about aperature and F-stops was really valuable to learn, and then really easy to forget as taking pictures became more instinctive.

Huh, I used to shoot indoor theatrical shots with 800 speed film. Very low light. I'd have to be careful to have a stable shooting platform, but I always got lots of very good shots.

400 was usually my default film speed and I got some pretty good theatre shots.

Megan, I have a K1000 too, but I haven't actually used it in yonks.

What I really have found I need is a camera that will let me take good pictures of things that are happening on stage, well lit on stage (and likely moving around quickly on stage), when I am in a crowd, in the dark. AKA "I'm at a drag show". What the heck camera and setting do I use for THAT?

Meara, I have a little Canon A85 digital and I have found that the best setting for taking night action shots is the "action setting" (It's one of thsoe cameras with settings for portraits, landscape, action, etc.) , because it gives you quick shutter speeds. In plain autofocus and all those other specialized settings they seem to put more priority on aperture over shutter speed, leaving you with blurry messes. I missed many photos of my nephew in the Canada Day parade one year before I figured that out.

I was really pulling for the special adapter a company was working on about 10 years ago that would have let me take the back door off my K1000 and make it digital. (or other SLR)

I wonder whatever happened to that? It must have run into price/performance and other issues.

My cordless phone is for crap. I think it's about time I stop trying to leverage my investment in Uniden's 5.8GHz technology and start from scratch--but where is the market now? What's clean and crisp tech? I have no interest in an answering machine--I just need something with expandable cordless handsets. Anything else that's default these days is probably enough.

I gave up a long time ago, and just got a really long cord.

So I'll only say this (and it may drive Tom mad) all that stuff about aperature and F-stops was really valuable to learn, and then really easy to forget as taking pictures became more instinctive.

I totally agree. I had to really think about what was what to explain it because I don't think about it now.

Does Thunderbird hide all of its attachments? Eudora had a folder with them all sitting right out there so I could image index and copy and paste them without going through the app. I can't work out how to do that with Mozilla.

I think you need to set preferences in Thunderbird and pick the folder you want to use for downloads.

Me stupid monkey.

I'm trying to add Kerfuffle Bunny to youllallpay.com. I want it to be its own separate thing, i.e. if you go to youllallpay.com/kb you will not get You'll All Pay the dormant blog but Kerfuffle Bunny the comic.

I have a directory on the server labeled "kb", and I have WordPress and a comics plug-in, but I don't know how to install them so that if you go to youllallpay.com you'll get the blog as it is and if you go to youllallpay.com/kb you will get the spiffy new comic. I don't know where to install them, if I need to install wordpress to the kb directory since I already have wordpress on my server space and if I don't need to install wordpress anew to the kb directory how I configure wordpress so it leaves You'll All Pay alone and adds Kerfuffle Bunny...

I'm probably babbling.

Any insights?

What folder is it under?

I don't know if Wordpress is any different than some other sites I've used, but if there is a HTML folder on your account, it would have to be under that.

Hmm.