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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Booting the memory hog

I'm going to an electronics store to play with the handheld PDA's, or personal digital assistants. Sounds pretentious to me. And what's wrong with personal analog assistants? Anyway, should I end up gainfully employed, it might be the perfect thing for taking notes while

Kipper

Made a pile of Blog stickers yesterday, and submitted them to blogstickers.com. But Hubby made this one: I miss Rimmer. He was so acidic, so irritatingly obnoxious you couldn't help but miss him when he went. A kipper is a smoked fish (mackerel?) often eaten for breakfast

Chronicle code

I have some re-coding to do. Chronicle currently treats each entry as a separate entity, I want them grouped by day, with only one date header, and sub headings for each entry title. Not sure how to do it right now, it's in the publish method. Need to

Life Expectancy

Oh my, this is depressing: Your average life span is: 87 years old By modifying your Health, Lifestyle, Diet and Environment you can live to be: 99 Years Old You were born on Monday, March 3, 1975. You have lived 9,884 days and have 21,725 days left to

Monday Mission

The PromoGuy dot Net Monday Mission 2.12. 1. What helps you get started every morning? Breakfast. Without breakfast I'm tetchy and irritable. And probably irritating too. 1. What is the most memorable thing anyone has ever made for you? Hubby planned a trip to San Diego for

Ice Age

Saw "Ice Age" last night with Pat and Jodi. Great film, shame about the mass infestation of pre-teens who think it's acceptable behaviour to talk ALL THROUGH THE FILM. And applaud at random moments. Why? What's the point, other than irritating everyone else in

Friday Five

The Friday Five. <li><b>What is your favourite time of year?</b> <br>Spring/summer.</li> <li><b>What is it about your favourite season that, well, makes it your favourite season?</b>

C.R.U.D.

Create, read, update, delete. The basic four functions of a bit of database code. I've got three of them done for the Export dialog on Chronicle, only the update is left. Then comes the dialog that pulls all of the previous four into one place, then comes the

Running on fumes

Last night was our first marital running-out-of-petrol drama. It happened under near textbook conditions: after dark (10:30 pm), in cold weather (-9C or 15F), without cell phones, and after a stressful day (building inspection day for the house). Happily we were on a downhill slope, less than a mile

Google madness

Google has deleted references to the leading Internet critic of the Church of Scientology, Operation Clambake. It's still there if you search for the words "Operation Clambake" but Google has voluntarily shredded a part of their supposedly impartial searching system to cut the site out of

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