Changing the "Post" button location

get a shorter chair (LOL)

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

If I did I would be able to sit down, but not be able to get back out of it! Sounds like a very creative solution though. I guess my post did sound like the height of laziness. I guess I should be embarrassed about it, but strangely I’m not. No pride. Oh well that’s what happens when you get old.

-- Mike, American in Norway

i kind of agree with mike – sometimes i even forget it’s there!

You mean like put it right next to the “Preview” button?

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

I think he means have a link that would jump down here to the box, so that you dont have to scroll through all the comments to make your own…something like that I think…

-- If you can't build it, code it. If you can't code it, build it. But always ALWAYS take a picture.

There you go Charlie! See, the ideas are streaming in already. This could turn into a movement.

-- Mike, American in Norway

No DPB, I like to read the comments, I just don’t want to have to scroll down to the “post this reply” button.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Patron’s comment brought back memories of my father-in-law.

He used to always say, ”Sit on the floor, & let your feet hang.”

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

maybe you just need one of those new computers ,
that you can talk to ?

” say hello to everybody this morning ,
and tell that guy with the box ,
well done ”.

” POST “

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

Do you know where can I buy that computer? I would have gotten this reply posted sooner but I had to take the time to scroll down to the post button. Sorry for the delay!

-- Mike, American in Norway

Have you heard about a mouse with a scroll wheel?

-- Steinar, Norway - - Hegner SE

Hmm? I see the whole thing on my screen, your last message, the posting box and the post button. If i get long winded I have to scroll down to it.

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

I can’t use a mouse with my laptop while using it sitting in my recliner chair. Bob, you know I am long winded. Here I go scrolling now to post this comment. A lot of extra work. Whew! Now that I think about it, maybe I’m not so lazy, I just want to be more efficient. My wife might not be convinced about this, but in cyber space anything goes. Right?

-- Mike, American in Norway

If Mike wants it it has to be good.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Mike, I hate lop top’s key boards and mouses or mice ;-)) I don’t blame you for not wantiing to scroll!!

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

Check out these voice recognition software reviews.

The only problem is, they cost a few bucks $$$.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Stefang:
If you write
really
long
posts or
arrange them
vertically, you
get to the
bottom of the
input box, right by
the Post button!

-- Gary, South Central Wisconsin. So much to learn, so little time!

Hey Mike …I scrolled all the way to the bottom to post this…..but then it said I had to sign in first….so …scroll all the way to the top to sign in….then you guessed it….scroll all the way back down here to post….just glad there aren’t 50 more replys yet

-- Life used to be soooo much simpler!!!!

As soon as you saw put the post button up higher then you will need the two other ones up higher also and then every thing will be at the top and afte4r reading all of the posts you will have to go to the top. This is a lose/lose situation.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Well from all the comments I can see this is a pretty controversial subject. We have the “move” and “don’t move” factions facing off. I imagine we might have a few folks sitting on the fence. They might be a lot younger and not see the need for this proposed change.

I do hope however, that all of you out there will think carefully about this hot issue. As woodworkers we all know the importance of button placement. I’m sure most of you out there have read tool reviews where a tool was ranged inferior to another tool which had a better on/off button arrangement. This just shows the importance of ergometrics in our society. Karpel tunnel syndrom is a dreaded condition which we all need to avoid so we can continue chopping mortises and using our handplanes. Safety first should be our byword! And why shouldn’t this apply to computer use as well?

Once you become addicted to LJ and have to review and comment on a million posts a day, the seriousness of scrolling becomes uppermost in our minds (at least in mine). It isn’t like we want to do this. It’s more like we have to do it because we have lost control and have become totally obsessed, just like with our woodworking. Myself, I am going through withdrawal pains now that I have been spending most of my time in the house with my wife recovering from her hip operation. On top of that she thinks I am spending way to much time on the computer when I could be vacuuming and washing floors. To tell you the truth she just doesn’t understand me.

Well I guess I will conclude this comment now that the post button is in sight. I do hope my comments have woken up some folks who have been complacent with the current location of the post button. To Dick and Barb, I appreciate your attempt to help me out on this issue, but I don’t dare try a voice actuated program. If I start talking to my computer on top of all the time I spend on LJ I’m 100% sure my wife will throw me out on my ear.

And for you skeptics who think this whole subject was brought about because I am bored and miss my shop, I say think again! Change is what I stand for. Remember, while most of you sleep I’m awake doing my LJ work!

-- Mike, American in Norway

you tell us , mike !

we all need a good wake-up call once in a while .

now back to scrubbing .

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

We don’t want anyone accusing you of talking to yourself, do we? <(:O}#

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

I glad you are getting the message David, and to Dick and Barb, it warms my heart to see that folks in Hibbing Montana are also showing a lot of interest and awareness about this subject. Also I would like to say that if I want to have a conversation about woodworking in my house, I am forced to have it with myself, because nobody else is interested! They just want the finished product and not the unnecessary details. That’s why I’m so glad to have contact with all of you good folks who understand a woodworkers needs.

-- Mike, American in Norway

I think its important that you scroll down to the problem, because then you would be more inclined to read the comments and not ask a question that has already been answered.

-- Tom, Simsbury, CT

No, no, Tom. I don’t want to miss the comments. I don’t mind scrolling through them at all. It’s scrolling to the post button after I have typed in my own comments. I’m going to do that right now. Thanks for your input.

-- Mike, American in Norway

LOL, perhaps I should have read the your post a little more carefully. My apologies.

-- Tom, Simsbury, CT

No apologies needed. As I’m sure you guessed, this is serious business and I wouldn’t want any misunderstandings. Whoops, here I go again, that darn button is out of sight and I have to go through all the hard work of scrolling down to it. Thanks for you comments Tom.

-- Mike, American in Norway

mike ,
i think some things in life ,
are just meant to be hard .
maybe you need a box of nutrition bars ,
that the hikers use .
keep it next to your computer ,
and chew one before the long haul ,
to the post button ?

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

Mike – it sounds like you have a new project in store: A customized laptop holder (in wood of course – I would suggest black walnut to give it that “posh” look) that will fit well over the arms of your recliner so that you can use your mouse.

Hey – without giving away too many secrets of mine… if I can check out lumberjocks and post with a scrolling mouse while in my bathtub…. I am sure you will find a way :)

I am so lazy that when I stands I sits and when I sits I lays down.
Lazy Larry LOL

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

If you push the key that says “end”, it takes you to the bottom.

-- JJ...... I guess you could say I'm a 54 year old "juniorjock". — Make things with wood.

Yeah, but then yoiu have to get back up to the post button :-))

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

See what I mean about buttons being controversial? Even though I have mainly been having some fun with this post, there is some truth in it. We Americans are very button oriented and demand only the best configurations! Eureka! I don’t have to scroll to get to the button this time.

-- Mike, American in Norway