It's occurred to me that I don't know what my handwriting looks like any more. I scrawl down things in my work notebook etc. but I haven't written out a full page of anything (like a school essay) for years.

Anyone else do 'writing' regularly?

I went for years without writing anything by hand. When I picked up a pen for the first time in years my hand began to hurt after only a few words (this was a few years back). I began incorporating note taking into my job and now do a little bit more of that (typically I try to write down what I'm working on and any reminders for the future). I still cannot write anywhere near as long as I have in the past, but it's better. My neatness has also improved since that first time back in the saddle, but I must slow down and consciously try to keep things neat if I don't want it to be sloppy (even so, as my hand gets tired/cramped things just become a barely legible scribble).

All of this is using block letters ("printing," as I was taught in school). I do not write in cursive format anymore. I have always preferred writing in block letters. It's neater and easier to read, IMO. It may not be quite as efficient or easy on the hands though. I'm not sure.

In my youth, a childhood friend and I used to compete with each other to write the smallest in grade 5 where we used to have to write 500-word journal entries in cursive format every day. We used to manage to write very tiny, but still neat. The teacher would review each entry and mark them for neatness and who remembers what else. She used to joke (maybe?) that she needed a magnifying glass to read our writing. I miss that.

I do write by hand sometimes, and I haven't noticed my writing go downhill - or at least if it did, I was able to fix it quite quickly

Did this thread slow down because the religious one started? That's it - superstar4410 is trying to DoS our thread! Time for a witch hunt

I noticed the correlation, as well.

This thread has reminded me that I should apply for a virtual debit card. They are the bee's knees. Generate a temporary credit card number, use it once, and burn it.

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My handwriting has always been generally poor. I never had any proper schooling growing up and I never wrote an essay until college. Older gents here will even remember that Allegro.CC taught me a great deal of grammar initially. My First Posts Actually Were Written Entirely Like This with completely wrong apostophes, it's/its/there/their/they're and so on. People like X-G and Miran yelled at me which encouraged me to improve.

Anyhow, I love that our society doesn't give a crap about cursive anymore and even handwriting is less essential. However, I'd still like to improve my handwriting... there's something elegant and professional about writing well, and worse still, something uncivilized and unintelligent about someone who cannot write legibly.

I became much better during my college days with all the required writing but it's still far from average. Thing is... I'm not really sure how to do it. Do I buy a book? Are books useful? Do I watch Youtube videos? I don't know. It seems like one of those "hands on" kind of skills where a teacher would be very helpful. It's a practiced skill with a finesse to it, as opposed to a remembered factoid or concept that one can simply Google.

We learned to write neatly in school because if we didn't we'd have to do it all over again. If you go slow it's not very difficult to write legibly. Especially with practice. If you write daily you get lots of practice. It all comes down to taking your time. It's hard to do that when you have to write lots in a short amount of time, but if you just want to improve the quality then you can define the quantity to match.

I recently noticed that Google Inc now provides the certificate for google.com
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So... isn't that technically a self signed certificate

Still sounds like self-signing to me.

I think it's the last post date (28th Jan in your case) rather than the last revision date (2nd Feb)

[edit] Also I think the 'Just Bored' thread has some potential to be long-lived.
also - has this thread really been running since September?