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Now has me thinking of bees that make chocolate instead of honey!

What would those hives smell like?

Does the idea of my tracking folks who read my journal scare anyone? I think it’s pretty safe, as we know who’s on a friend’s list already… but does time of viewing upset anyone? My knowing that ‘someone’s on leftyrok’s friends page right now, for example?

Should I not put this little number on my entries?



Site Meter

Sunset today was lovely, a soft orange and pink deal, with very vivid clouds. If I’d had a digital cam, I’d have snapped a few dozen images.

I’m back… I walked to the beach, and spent some time contemplating life, the universe and everything.

My conclusions? Think in smaller bits.

Wrote another note to my sweetpea today… Now I’m debating mailing them off one at a time, or as one bundle. I’m leaning to two bundles, one mailed Thursday, so she is sure to get some, and the others to be mailed on Saturday, so she’ll get ’em as a treat when back. I’m thinking of firing off some chocolates, too. *note to self – only send mail via the post office… far more reliable. I love her… she’s not really far away… I have her with me… but I yearn for her to laugh with me anew, and to come home soon.

The beach was beautiful, solitary. I could hear my love’s laughter in the waves, and it made me smile. The music in my mind was and is a curious mix of B-52s, DMB, and Rusted Root.

I’m getting a bit off on my AOK script design. 999 wild horses running around isn’t funny, just chaotic. Can’t seem to make furious george aggressive enough… I’ll work on it more…but there are some neat ‘moat’ river ideas…

Off to catch up and see if I have any evil news for you all.

No call about the apartment. Ack, I’m a little disappointed, but not too unhappy about it yet.

How not to have Scotto kill you with repeated blows to the head by a blunt object –

Do not call, letting it ring until voice mail picks up, then hang up, and call again (repeat until Scotto is in a deep lather, from trying to think, and ignoring the phone) and then give pointless information that could’ve been left of voicemail in the first place.

To save lives, I have programmed a macro into my phone. The same line has to wait at least 10 seconds before reconnecting, else they get dropped straight to voice mail. Also, I now have a workable ‘do not disturb’ button that drops folks straight into voicemail.

For work, feel free to ignore.

http://www.princeton.edu/~hannahk/web2.gif

http://people.ne.mediaone.net/lmhansen/index.html

other snippets on how to connect access to the web.

http://www.mvps.org/access/modules/mdl0052.htm

http://www.mvps.org/access/modules/mdl0037.htm

note –

‘*********** Code Start *************
Sub TestHTTP()
On Error GoTo ErrHandler
Dim objHTTP As InetTransferLib.HTTP
Const conTARGET = “http://www.mvps.org/access/acknowledge.htm”

Set objHTTP = New InetTransferLib.HTTP
With objHTTP
.About
.HttpURL = conTARGET
‘.DestinationFile = “j:temptest.htm”
.PromptWithCommonDialog = True
If .FileExists Then .OverwriteTarget = True
If Not .IsConnected Then .DialDefaultNumber
.ConnectToHTTPHost
.WriteHTTPDataToFile
End With
ExitHere:
On Error Resume Next
Set objHTTP = Nothing
Call SysCmd(acSysCmdRemoveMeter)
Exit Sub
ErrHandler:
MsgBox Err.Number & vbCrLf & Err.Description, vbCritical + vbOKOnly, Err.Source
Resume ExitHere
End Sub
‘*********** Code End *************

as an example.

from – http://www.princeton.edu/~hannahk/WebPubl.htm

How do I create a procedure to add data to my database?
This is much more difficult and requires creating an idc (Internet Database Connector) file.

Design an Access 97 database or use an existing database
Use the Save as HTML option under the File menu. This starts the Publish to the Web wizard.
Select a table, query, or form to use as the basis of your report.
Choose the Dynamic HTX/IDC option
Provide the Data Source Name. This is the name that the Web server uses to identify your database.
Save your database htm/idc/htx files to a directory on your hard disk. Modify the htm/idc/htx files that are created with a text editor such as WordPad or a Web authoring tool such as Claris HomePage.
Move your database file (.mdb) and the htm/idc/htx files to a Novell directory. You will need to create a special subdirectory and register it with the Web server administrator.
Demo of adding data to the Student Jobs database. The URL is

http://winweb.princeton.edu/dbwtest/hpajb.htm

always close on a song…

especially if it’s a little floyd.

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Where have you been? It’s alright we know where you’ve been.
You’ve been in the pipeline, filling in time, provided with toys and ‘Scouting for Boys’.
You bought a guitar to punish your ma,
And you didn’t like school, and you know you’re nobody’s fool,
So welcome to the machine.

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
What did you dream? It’s alright we told you what to dream.
You dreamed of a big star, he played a mean guitar,
He always ate in the Steak Bar. He loved to drive in his Jaguar.
So welcome to the machine.

hmm…

some little ether-mouse has seen fit to nibble on my ‘tales’ folder at my website. I suspect I burned it up when transferring some new data over there this morning. I have backups of my poems, stories and snippets at home, though, so it shouldn’t be too inconvenient to patch up.

Having a day.

hurry up and wait seems to be the nature of the beast.

I have a beautiful window of opportunity that’s opened up, but nothing to do the processes on. drat. I think I’ll end up waiting around an hour, then get it late. perhaps I should go questing for food now… that’ll cause the stuff to get here earlier.

I’m rather concerned about Katherine, but I think she’ll come through her trouble-time pretty well. I just don’t like to have any friends suffering for any reason. I think that she realises how many people care about her, and want only the best for her well-being.

On another note, I must research shopping carts (of the online variety.)

Another day, another $.34 (after taxes.)

woo. Or even Wu! (Doug, that is) harper #1 in my book, and all around swell guy apparently called danny up last night, giving out his new phone number… sadly, he either doesn’t have the line hooked up yet, or some other weirdness is causing conection trouble. but rest assured that we’ll hear from him soon.

I have no plans for saturday…what to do. maybe just have a rest? my forward week is looking busy, update ID, take car eof a few bills for Suzy while she’s in the pokey, birthday goodies for Derek & Kevin. I should spend some time with Danny and Ray this weekend, I really haven’t spoken to Ray since oh, maybe a month or so ago. Perhaps Saturday will be good for that.

reviews on the googly eyed scotto are mixed… I think I’ll save it for ‘surprised or hyper’ moods when I get my paid account.

Doing a contract job for food for the poor. I have mixed feelings about feeding people overseas when there are hungry folks in my city. Is it wrong to want things better locally first, and then spread out from there? Another tactic is to hit the hungriest first, and go to the less hungry, I suppose… but how does a person calulate that sort of stuff? “Well, 1000 people died here last week… only 800 in haiti died.” The economy of human life is a difficult one for me to calculate. Is it wrong to feed the hungry at all? Opposing nature? (Don’t look at me, I’m totally in favor of good works… and opposing nature. If I wasn’t all my friends with glasses would be much worse off, not to mention the my back, athsmatics, and other ‘defectives’)

ok,how cool is this?

I founda huge security hole in the mall’s library ‘info’ kiosk. I’m actually typing this in in front of sam goody at the pompano beach mall.:) Just as afyi, go to the seflin ‘search this site’ part of the library computer, and delete the part that mentions the library’s address! hee! I’m going to check my email next. (anonymously, of course) then call Ol’ Malam up to see if anything’s on for today. See you kids soon!