Friday, June 6, 2008

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Word


This was a task I could sink my teeth into, a search for a mysterious missing word.
First step: Watch Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom to get my head in the right place.
Second step: Eat cheese sandwich and a glass of milo... I may need the energy.
Third Step: Put on my Sherlock Holmes deerstalker hat and light up my calabash pipe.
Then my quest began.

For this task I installed FireFTP to my Firefox browser, a rather simple task that could be describes as... elementary.

I found this far easier than the telnet task as I didn't need to know any special commands, it was easy to navigate around the Curtin site. Even though this was, in my opinion, a far better experience as a user than telnet, I still found it far less compelling than working with modern browsers to locate information on the web. My experience with FTP, these days, is limited to "getting" and "putting" web page files to and from servers, a task it performs superbly. I can see how those with a history using this type of application enjoy it, and I respect it as tool in kit for in the development of the web experience, but when used to perform functions like in this task it lacks the bells and whistles that I enjoy. Some would see that as a positive.

In no time I tracked down the rouge file. I laughed triumphantly as I deftly dragged it over to my desktop and eagerly opened it... there it was beaming out at me. I turned to Watson (my cat) and rhetorically asked " What matters Watson?" I took the calabash pipe from my mouth and thoughtfully curled my bottom lip "CAPITALIZATION MATTERS" I declared. "Elementary my dear Watson, elementary".

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