Comment

Comment

n. Written feedback from BLOG readers, who may respond with constructive criticism, or contribute additions, changes, or corrections, or offer personal stories about their own experience or opinions, or ask questions, make suggestions, and so on.

NOTE: Ordinarily, BLOGS are all about POSTS and Comments. The AUTHOR POSTS something as a BLOG ENTRY, and then—if the AUTHOR chooses to enable it—people have a chance to respond by making Comments.

Here, the same is also true. See the COMMENTS (") TAB for how to view and make your own Comments.

However, if you're looking for discussion, that's something a little different. Comments will typically deal with GLOSSARY-related issues only, and are kind of like “Post-Its®.” You know, you stick a little note up there, and folks read it, maybe, as they're passing by. But, by comparison, discussions are much different. Discussions are all about dialog. Give and take. Conversation.

Well, to converse, Comments are not the way to go, in large part because they (Comments) are moderated, and there's therefore a built in delay before they appear.

What you want for conversation is the Stockclerk Google group. Check it out by clicking on the link below:

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Contribution

Contribution

n. Any worthwhile suggestion or nomination of informational content to the GLOSSARY. Contributions might include, but not be limited to:

• TERMS
• Definitions
• Usage
• Notes
• Tips
• PHOTOGRAPHS
• Illustrations
• How-To Procedures
• Reference information
• Etc., etc.

In other words, just about anything on-topic, such as you see throughout the GLOSSARY, would be appreciated.

Contributor

Contributor

n. Someone who provides informational content to the GLOSSARY.

NOTE: Original Contributors are those who helped me get started on the job. I've done my best to list them all under THANKS!

Likewise, I'll strive to ensure any other Contributors also get appropriate acknowledgment of any of their CONTRIBUTIONS that may get incorporated into the GLOSSARY.

PDF

PDF

n. “Portable Document Format,” a cross-platform standard electronic document format established by Adobe Software Inc. that functions somewhat like “digital paper,” allowing electronic documents to be viewed and printed in a consistent, fixed format across various computers and printers using a free, downloadable application called Adobe® Reader®.

NOTE: The main idea of a PDF is that everyone sees the same thing. Web pages may vary in appearance from one computer to another, because the web is a dynamic format. Things can move around, and fonts may vary, etc. Just resize your window to see why dynamic text is good! ...most of the time.

But, when printing, you'd like a “printer friendly” version, where layout and fonts and everything else is assured to be as the AUTHOR intended. With a PDF, everything “stays put.”

So, the good news: PDF versions of these pages are available! (Yea!)

The bad news: Google (who owns Blogger, etc., where this web site is hosted) doesn't yet have open sharing of stored PDF documents. (Boo-oo.)

So be it.

I've got PDFs, and you can get them for free, but to do so you have to CONTACT me and send me a valid email address so I can enroll you as a registered viewer of my stored PDFs.

At least for the time being, that's just how it works.

(And by the way—Scout's honor, cross my heart, and all that—without your explicit permission, that's all I'll ever do with your email address: just enroll you and enable you to view and download (and thus print out) nicely formatted PDF versions of these pages.)

For more information about PDFs and Adobe® Reader®, see:
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Photograph

Photograph

n. An image recorded by a camera, and provided in the GLOSSARY as an illustration to help clarify or illuminate a definition.

NOTE: In the GLOSSARY, photographs (and other graphics such as charts and diagrams) are reduced to black-and-white thumbnails so pages load faster, and printouts look better. Yet, all are “rollover” images, meaning that when you place your cursor over them, you'll first see a color version, and if you click, you'll get the full-color, full-sized version of the image displayed as a Picassa Web Albums page. (Picassa is one of Google's sister services to Blogger, where the GLOSSARY is hosted.) To return to the GLOSSARY, just use your browser's BACK button.

Images whose captions end with an ellipsis (…) have additional notes attached to the full-sized image in the Picassa Web Albums COMMENTS field. These additional notes are not in the body of the ENTRY, since they pertain to aspects of the image that are not readily visible in the thumbnail.

All thumbnail images are overlaid with a small magnifying glass icon in their lower right corner, to indicate a larger version is available upon clicking. All full-size images are overlaid with a “watermark” in the lower right corner that says “Stockclerk.blogspot.com.” Please always be sure to give credit where credit is due.

Contributions of relevant, good quality photos are always welcome! However, per the notes under CONTACT INFO, if you provide images to the GLOSSARY, you are thereby agreeing that they become my property, to do with as I see fit, without any expectation or compensation whatsoever. That said, I also will make every effort to give credit where credit is due, and will put a reasonable photo credit in the image's Picassa Web Albums COMMENTS field.