My Experience with Word

I have been using Microsoft Word for nearly all of my life. I have become very familiar with it over the years, in terms of using it to write essays, but other than that I know very little. I would like to learn all of the capabilities Word offers. We talked in class the other day about how Word can be used to create images and edit pictures; I thinking learning these techniques could be very helpful in the future.
One other thing that I need to improve upon are my troubleshooting skills. Whenever something goes wrong or won't work, I usually just get frustrated at the computer instead of trying to diagnose the problem. If I can increase my general understanding of Word, I think I can get better at this too. For example, sometimes Word will automatically format the document and I can never figure out to stop it from doing so. If I knew why this happens, writing essays would be much less stessful.

Joe Hatch's Discussion

Joe talked about how many pop-up windows are used by hackers to make money. He said that everytime a pop-up ocurrs, the hacker makes a nickel or dime. Sometimes, the pop-up won't go away because the hacker has set it to keep ocurring. I can see why people do it; it's an easy way to make a good amount without having to put in any effort. If I knew how to do this, it would definatly be tempting.

I am from San Diego, California and have lived there my whole life. It's an awesome place and I wouldn't live anywhere else. I grew up playing a number of sports but when I got injured playing baseball, I started to focus on golf. Lucky for me, I live five minutes down the road from Torrey Pines Golf Course and I have spent a lot of time down there. The U.S. Open was recently played there and it was really cool to see the best players in the world hitting the same shots I have hit so many times. I couldn't help but think that with a little luck I could be playing in a U.S. Open a couple years down the road.

Athletics have had a huge impact on my life, and I could never go without them. Even though I have committed to golf, I still love to play basketball and football. I love to work out and feel it's important for everyone to live an active lifestyle. Another awesome thing about where I live is the beach. I practically live there during the summer. If there's nothing else to do, my friends and I will go down there and chill all day. I don't surf, but I love to boogey-board and just lay out in the sun.

I play on the golf team here at Trinity and after a dissapointing first semester, I am looking forward to playing lights out this semester. Concerning my computer experience, I have pretty much learned everything on my own. I took a class in 7th grade once, but I don't remember any of it. However, I feel I am good with computers and I think I'll enjoy this class. One more thing, my email address is rbarry@trinity.edu. Please email me if you have any questions.

Here's a link to the bird's eye view of Torrey Pines GC.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Torrey+Pines+Golf+Course&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.077336,56.25&ie=UTF8&ll=32.900921,-117.248325&spn=0.008125,0.013733&t=h&z=16

Hey whats up? My name is Ryan Barry.

My secret fact-I played golf in Scotland last summer.