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Of course the term you’re writing about should be ‘freshly baked’. One of the reasons advertisers use such poor grammar is that it turns a meaningful (but dishonest) term into a meaningless one-and questions of honesty don’t apply to meaningless phrases.

And to me, “Home made” should mean made in a home, not just ‘on the premises’. And I think that ‘homemade’ should fall into that meaningless word category I was talking about, but I checked an online dictionary & found it as a word with the same meaning as ‘home made’. I suspect pollution of the English language by advertisers, but if it’s been accepted then I guess I’d just be wasting my time protesting that “it just isn’t right”.

Of course the term you’re writing about should be ‘freshly baked’. One of the reasons advertisers use such poor grammar is that it turns a meaningful (but dishonest) term into a meaningless one-and questions of honesty don’t apply to meaningless phrases.

And to me, “Home made” should mean made in a home, not just ‘on the premises’. And I think that ‘homemade’ should fall into that meaningless word category I was talking about, but I checked an online dictionary & found it as a word with the same meaning as ‘home made’. I suspect pollution of the English language by advertisers, but if it’s been accepted then I guess I’d just be wasting my time protesting that “it just isn’t right”.

I’ve never had it lock up on expenses but did have it lock up consistently on a news service-Mobipocket if I remember correctly. My problem turned out to be that the news service (which was installed automatically along with the Mobipocket Reader) had a PC component that hadn’t been installed.

I’m still not entirely sure of the details, but I think the problem occurred because I sync it to 2 PC’s and one of them crashed on me. When reinstalling ‘everything’ I saw no reason to reinstall the software that was already on my Palm (actually a Sony Clie) & maybe I should have done so.

Anyway, my solution was the same as yours-disable the service. (Don’t remember whether I was able to disable the news service or whether I disabled synchronization of the entire Mobipocket service. Either should have worked as there’s no reason to ‘synchronize’ reader software-at least not that I can see.)

I’ve never had it lock up on expenses but did have it lock up consistently on a news service-Mobipocket if I remember correctly. My problem turned out to be that the news service (which was installed automatically along with the Mobipocket Reader) had a PC component that hadn’t been installed.

I’m still not entirely sure of the details, but I think the problem occurred because I sync it to 2 PC’s and one of them crashed on me. When reinstalling ‘everything’ I saw no reason to reinstall the software that was already on my Palm (actually a Sony Clie) & maybe I should have done so.

Anyway, my solution was the same as yours-disable the service. (Don’t remember whether I was able to disable the news service or whether I disabled synchronization of the entire Mobipocket service. Either should have worked as there’s no reason to ‘synchronize’ reader software-at least not that I can see.)

Hopefully you mean a 20-gig hard drive rather than 20-meg. If so then Win2K should run OK provided you can find the correct drivers. I’ve run Win2K on a 300-MHz machine before.

If your 20-meg statement is correct then I think you’re probably stuck with DOS.

Hopefully you mean a 20-gig hard drive rather than 20-meg. If so then Win2K should run OK provided you can find the correct drivers. I’ve run Win2K on a 300-MHz machine before.

If your 20-meg statement is correct then I think you’re probably stuck with DOS.

I’ve got to admit that I’ve never understood why all countries that I know of use the ‘proper’ format for time (hr mn sc) but not for dates.

By the way, I prefer to avoid the numeric representation of months when dealing with people. I haven’t encountered a lot of confusion over which month is meant, but whenever I have encountered it it’s always been due to the use of numbers. I have yet to encounter someone (English-speaking) who doesn’t understand what month I mean, without even thinking about it, when I say ‘September’.

I’ve got to admit that I’ve never understood why all countries that I know of use the ‘proper’ format for time (hr mn sc) but not for dates.

By the way, I prefer to avoid the numeric representation of months when dealing with people. I haven’t encountered a lot of confusion over which month is meant, but whenever I have encountered it it’s always been due to the use of numbers. I have yet to encounter someone (English-speaking) who doesn’t understand what month I mean, without even thinking about it, when I say ‘September’.

“And please don’t tell me not to have NULLS in the db — there’s several text boxes in the form and no reason to have a default value for them.”

I dunno. To me, having a problem with NULLS in the code sounds like a reason to have a default value for the text boxes. But I’m not telling you to eliminate the NULLS-maybe you have a better reason for having them than for not.

“And please don’t tell me not to have NULLS in the db — there’s several text boxes in the form and no reason to have a default value for them.”

I dunno. To me, having a problem with NULLS in the code sounds like a reason to have a default value for the text boxes. But I’m not telling you to eliminate the NULLS-maybe you have a better reason for having them than for not.

That’s a new one on me-probably because I don’t work in insurance. I’ve never been able to buy insurance to cover an accident or illness that’s already happened, whether I know what the costs of the accident will be or not. But then I’ve often run into the problem of ‘small minds’. Contractors who won’t give an estimate because the job “isn’t worth their time” (so quote an estimate high enough that it will be worth their time-let the homeowner decide whether or not it’s worth doing why don’t you?).

I’ve understood that, in theory, anything can be covered by insurance if you’re willing to pay a high enough premium. In practice most insurance agents will tell you that something simply isn’t covered rather then quoting you a premium. Gets my dander up sometimes-they have no idea of my income or preferences, but they’re perfectly willing to tell me what’s worthwhile to *me*.

That’s a new one on me-probably because I don’t work in insurance. I’ve never been able to buy insurance to cover an accident or illness that’s already happened, whether I know what the costs of the accident will be or not. But then I’ve often run into the problem of ‘small minds’. Contractors who won’t give an estimate because the job “isn’t worth their time” (so quote an estimate high enough that it will be worth their time-let the homeowner decide whether or not it’s worth doing why don’t you?).

I’ve understood that, in theory, anything can be covered by insurance if you’re willing to pay a high enough premium. In practice most insurance agents will tell you that something simply isn’t covered rather then quoting you a premium. Gets my dander up sometimes-they have no idea of my income or preferences, but they’re perfectly willing to tell me what’s worthwhile to *me*.

UK must be on the leading edge of this then. I’ve heard of a few modems with both USB & Ethernet connections, but none (so far) with only a USB. Thanks for explaining it.

UK must be on the leading edge of this then. I’ve heard of a few modems with both USB & Ethernet connections, but none (so far) with only a USB. Thanks for explaining it.

Doesn’t surprise me. Our high school was rated for 1200 students. Right now it has 1600. Voters approved building a second high school two years ago. Estimated cost was 50 million dollars. (At the time the student population was 1500, IIRC, and estimated to be 2000 in 4 years.) Then they took part of the money the voters approved & remodeled the current high school. Then they went back to the voters & asked for another 12 million dollars to build the second high school Then they dedicated part of the money for the new high school to artwork. Then they went back to the voters & asked for another 10 million dollars to build the new high school. Final plan for the new high school was for it to hold 1200 students-not bad if their earlier estimates had been accurate, but a little big for the reality.

Guess what? Last May, in a special election, the voters voted *against* building the new high school they’d approved 2 years ago. Wonder why this so shocked the authorities? Especially after they announced that they were laying off several teachers due to a budget shortfall. (If they had handled the planning correctly they wouldn’t have needed to hire more teachers for the new school-unless they intended to reduce the average class size, in which case they’d need to hire more teachers whether they built the new school or not. In the plan they worked out however, they planned on duplicating a number of ‘special’ teachers like foreign languages. Never mind that there would only be enough foreign language students in each school to occupy those teachers only part of the day, it was still ‘necessary’ that each school have its own full-time teacher. No wonder the vote went against them.)