It's spelled w00t, Mr. Orientation. Who knows what crazy information first years are getting now?!...

Yeah, I said I'd keep you posted (still so funny!) on the message board situation. Still no word from the University on deletion of my account (though my supervisor was under the impression that the faculty of science allows you to keep it.) I've finished writing the PHP and translating the archives to XML (at least, for now. Improvements can be made, but they can be made much more easily now that the data is separate from the representation information (if all of the last sentence plus brackets seem like gibberish to you, don't worry. I barely understand me these mornings...))

All I need now is a host. I've been looking and the cheapest one that gives me what I want is TextDrive, which is $5 a month (I assume US dollars), via PayPal, excluding domain registration. The other one I'm looking at that I've heard good things about is Lunarpages. Which works out to (if I prepay for a year, including domain registration) $110.35 US ($145 Canadian). Finally there's Micfo, whose one year is $91.35 US ($120 Canadian).

I'll be sure to keep you updated. If you want to see the "new look" (it's not really that new; one slight modification that may not stay), it's sometimes up here. I say sometimes because that's my laptop, and it's not always awake. It's also not up to date, but just a display demonstration (but it will link to the posting form for the real message board.)

Hey Al, no complaining, I'd kill for a weekend like that. Hell, I'd kill for a weekend, 'cause my next day off is Sept. 11.

Fuck, I have to give a two day training session starting tomorrow. Two Days! Of Me! Talking! mostly.

Then again, I guess I knew what I was getting myself into, but still, crazy. No West Ed for me, more like North Ed - education building! Woot, training!

well, have fun at WEM... I hafta say I'm kinda glad I can't go... not so interested in going to something I thought was amazing when I was 6... it'll probably knock the wonder and awe back a lot.

So... instead of WEM-ing it up, I get to watch race-walk races all morning, go to a staff training session in the afternoon, and a goodbye party in the evening. yee haw, and I thought I was going to get some rest this weekend...

well, I hope you and your cousin and whomever else chooses to go have a great time Ed.

what the hell have I gotten myself into this year?? I'm so entirely screwed. ah well, too late now.

Beck, your invite to gmail is sent... just letting you know in case it goes to the trash.

Hey Folks,
I had mentioned that my cousin and I would be going to the waterpark/fantasy land possibly. The plan so far is that we would go on Saturday. Most likely to fantasy land during the day, and then to the WaterPark in the evening.

Here's the thing... I need to know how many passes to ask Rich to buy. He can get passes for cheap through his work. I think that they are 15 dollars for each but Rich thinks they are 15 dollars to get you into both. He's going to phone me at noon or so to let me know... at that time I have to let him know how many passes to buy. SO... if you're interested, and think you can come... try to give me some sort of definate answer before noon tomorrow (the 27th). I might pick up extra passes (especially if its 15 dollars for both).

Sorry to all who I talked to for the short-notice... but, thus is life. Let me knOw if you can gO!

-e-e-e-d-d-d-d-d-

Gah, 32 suffixes in Esperanto.

yes, Ed
I am interested in the "Gmail"
Please hook me up also.
i_hate_genetics@hotmail.com

thanx

Hey Ed, hook me up on Gmail: percman66@hotmail.com.

http://esperanto.org/

Here's that study on spam, Beck: Spam is beginning to undermine the integrity of email and degrade life online. Here is the highlight:


Some emailers are more responsive to spam than others. One-third of emailers have
pursued an offer in an unsolicited email by clicking on a link to find further information.

Further, 7% of emailers report that they have ordered a product or service that was
offered in an unsolicited email. Herein lies the problem: While some have suggested that
if people simply stopped responding the spam industry would dry up, some bulk emailers
claim that even 0.001% positive response rate is a break-even point.



So, if spam continues, they will make money. You can't stop everyone on the internet from clicking on spam offers. For some reason, there are people who are truly and honestly interesting in purchasing '/1_a_G..r,,a'. (Damnit! I'm behind again. It's 'CiA^l*i~s' now!)