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Hi everyone,

I am not sure that this post will ever be read as there appear to be so many, but I will give you my 2 cents anyway...
My name is Daz, I live in the north of England after living in London for most of my life. I am into virtually ANYTHING to do with computers and love learning. Trouble is, I can never seem to finish a project before starting on the next, so I always have lots to do. I have a baby boy who's 1st birthday is in a few days time, and I love him to bits! I am a pretty good and keen mIRC scripter, so if anyone needs any help on the IRC side of things, or maybe a bot made for a channel, or even an op, please give me a shout and I will be only to happy to help. I have to admin, I spent hours onight looking around for a decent shell account and everyone I found was asking for silly things, this is the ONLY one I could find that met my needs. At the moment, I know nothing about Linux hence why I would like a free Linux account. When I can do lots on Linux I will of course pay for an account. It's good to be here, and I hope to soon become a big part of this community which so far I have to say, appears to be very unique and excellent! Anyway, enough about me as I can babble on all night. I hope to bump into a lot of you during my time here, and if you ever need anything at all, my services are at your disposal!

Cheers.

Daz!

PS. Ignore the name, although it says Cute-N-Fuzzy, I am really a big snarling lion!

I would, if I could. I need my CPU-power myself, for my calculations. However, if I had a server, then I would. But that's no problem, since I don't have a shell account on a Phoenix server currently. That might change sometime, but now there is no need. =)

I'll give stuff without a second thought!

Hang on...I already do that, infact, I give alot of stuff to this community

Well, I'm honest. =)

By the way: I understand that you want to drop some color onto those colorless and boring forums, but that kinda reminds me of nasty mIRC scripts on IRC. ;)

To be serious: I'd greatly appreciate if you used colors only where appropriate. They desturb the clean design of this forum and do hilight your posts, which is just annoying if there is no real reason. But please don't take this personally. =)

Hi there,

There are several reasons I use colour the main reason, is that I am dyslexic. While this doesn't usually affect my typing, it SERIOUSLY affects my reading. Basically, this is a fairly unique way of not getting my posts noticed, but me finding my posts a lot easier. I also like a little bit of colour as that is me through and through, plus it often helps me illustrate things a little better. I figured no one else seems to take the time to use it, so I do. However, I will try not to use it for now, but if I get confused, I am afraid the colours will be back. In my humble opinion, colours are there to be used and they are no different from using an avatar, or a signature block. I am not sure if everyone is of the same opinion as you but my suggestions would be for you to request the colours are removed from the the forums or maybe, if you see blue and purple, to just skip that post as you know it's me .

However, as I said I will to refrain from using colours, as I HATE stepping on peoples' toes.

Thanks.

Fuzzy

if blue posts help your reading, then knock yourself out..

Welcome aboard.

Colors are there to be used, that's true. But they are to be used for highlighting and, as you said, for illustration. So those are special cases. Where I write in italic you could write in colors. Maybe you'll also find that this is a lot more practical to do. But I'd suggest using bold or italic faces instead of colors, so text-mode browsers can display them correctly (if intended to highlight things).

Thanks, for the friendly welcome and kind words Zogo!

I am happy to be here. As I stated earlier I will see how I get on and revert back if needed. I don't like stepping on other peoples toes if it's not necessary, and I do sympothize with mm_freak's point of view.

Fuzzy

Cute-N-Fuzzy wrote:Hi there,

There are several reasons I use colour the main reason, is that I am dyslexic. While this doesn't usually affect my typing, it SERIOUSLY affects my reading.

Im dyslexic (and dyspraxic (however you spell it)) too. I like the blue. it beats the normal black and stops me fealing quite so depressed and smotherd by all the informaition i get in black, its like when my teachers mark my work in red it makes me feel realy bad and usless (i preffer green) But i suppose if my like of certen colours is slightly unique then Id better leave it (rock on blue!)

Well said fishpoo222!

I honestly couldn't have worded it better myself. It's nice to have someone in the same boat as me who understands. I also struggle with words in big blocks too...

ni hi your site is the best the stuff on the olympics is very funny and your baby rocks (maybe thats why your called cute-n-fuzzy - its not you posting all this but your super ineligent son (ni hi)

Welcome Cute-N-Fuzzy, glad to have you here

i'm not sure about this...but if i'd have enough hdd space and cpu power maybe....but my current pc sucks...