Grieving for Kimberly's Hard Drive and Topic Terms Database

[hpfgumoderator]

Hey, it's Cindy, posting from the Mod account because Yahoo doesn't 
like Cindysphynx anymore.  :-(

Kimberly wrote:

>Truth is, in the tradition of bitter Irony, I had decided to upload 
>my catalogue when I had at least 100 posts done, and therefore my 
>computer crashed at 97.  

Oh, Kimberly, that's just awful!  I wish I could do something!  If 
the problem was that Windows XP crashed and needed to be re-loaded, 
it still might be possible to salvage what was on your hard drive.  
I had that type of crash earlier this year, and Luke, the quick-
thinking list elf advised that my hard drive might be salvageable, 
and he was right.  Let me know if you think this might help and I'll 
explain further.  (Yes, you can still get me on 
cindyspynx at comcast.net).

On another note, our Topic Terms database is getting big (almost 300 
terms now) and probably harder and harder to use.  So here's a 
helpful tip.

Once you have entered the Topic Terms database and 
selected "Printable Database," you get a huge long alphabetical list 
of the terms we are using.  If you're scanning for a term that might 
meet your needs, you can scroll through the whole list, of course.  
If you're like me, your eyes start to cross before you get halfway 
through if you scroll, though.

The other way to use the printable database is to search it.  You 
hit "CTRL F" and you get the "Find" window.  For example, if you 
have a post that talks about the Second and Third Tasks, you might 
want to know whether people are entering those Triwizard tasks 
separately or lumped together under "Triwizard Tournament." You 
could search for "task" and find that out without scrolling to "S" 
for Second Task and "T" for Third Task.  

Anyway, I'm taking some time to beef up some of the descriptions to 
make them a bit more searchable (for instance, specifying 
that "Triwizard Tournament" covers the first, second and third 
tasks, even though we all know that).  

Just thought I'd share.

Cindy