we set C’s mom & dad up with a computer recently, and I gave them one of my gmail invites. (I believe everybody should have a web-based mail account, and there’s nothing else I know as well *and* can recommend. no, not even on my own domain…long-time readers will know of the craziness I’ve gone thru with my web hosting.)
so, last Friday we went over to help out with some stuff and C taught mom his “compose in word” technique. we bumped up the default font in word to a 14 point sans serif, and she asked if we could do the same in Gmail.
which of course just meant increasing the font size in firefox (IE? what IE?)…except that strange things happened to the edge of the composing box…must be one of those frames things….
sigh. but they *are* online, and Dad is apparently have a good time futzing about with Google. (I may have to get him the Google Hacks book for his birthday.)