Prompted to give Google Docs a go I find within a couple of minutes I am Google-smacked!
Overwhelmingly impressive.
e-Life transforming. e-Things will never be the same.
I've only just crept on from Word 2002 in the last few weeks, so to be hit with so much more I feel like someone who has been trying to ski on a dry-slope strapped to planks of wood who has just been let loose on an Olympic Piste in the latest Salamon gear!
My 'MyStuff' days (six months actually) are also numbered. I knew that I had to 'populate' such a resource with material to give myself something to play with, but Google Docs without any doubt, on first impressions takes what MyStuff could have been in the commercial arena and realises it.
Google Docs has translated the desiress, hopes and expectations I had for MyStuff into a user-friendly and intuitive interface.
All I want to do now is share, share, share ... and go and compare.
And write more and read more and never leave my desk again.
In fact, I may re-instigate my exercise-bike as work-station. This is a standard exercisebike with the handle bars removed. Instead I have a lectern of sorts with a keyboard sensibly covered in a plastic skin. In this way I can type and bike!
Yee-ha!
(The second term of the day, did it with heebie-jeebies an hour ago, that I have put through the OED online)
Between them, the OED online and Google Docs leave me feeling like a kid on Christmas Morning with two brilliant but quite unexpected gifts!
Yee-hoo-oo-o!
And then I put a document into Google Docs, my piece on H808 First Impressions (below) and out of curiosity had it translated into French.
OMG
Though I understand French well enough to work in the country and can speak it OK, my written French is attrocious. Has this just given me the facility to communicate at a reasonable level with written French? Its an incredible, by default personalised language learning tool if nothing else.
Perhaps I could head for France in the next couple of months after all?
On verra.
I've regained the will to live.
