Note:<888> 5/30/98 Sunday 7:50 P.M. EDT: I watched the NBC evening news about the tornado in South Dakota. The PGA on ABC was cancelled because of thunderstorm warnings in Ohio. At the end of the NBC news at 7 P.M., they said that a tornado hit near Albany in Mechanicsville, New York. I just picked over the Purdue chicken and made chicken salad. I am cooking some Ramen noodles and corn on the cob in the Microwave right now to go with the chicken salad. I might go out after dinner if the weather is not too bad, I will have to keep a weather eye to the weather. CIO

Note:<888> 5/30/98 Sunday 6:40 P.M. EDT: I drove downtown and drove over to Tod's Point. I went out to the Southeast point and enjoyed the view. There were about a 100 ducks on the water, that I was not sure what type they were. I then drove by Staples in Old Greenwich and purchased a mouse pad for $2.11 . The new mouse pad is soft rubber as opposed to the hard plastic pad I use to use. Hopefully it will not be so hard on my palm wrist bone as the old one. I returned home and watched a little television. I will go with ABC evening news at 6:30 P.M.. It is bright and sunny out and not too hot, but we're suppose to have severe thunder showers coming in this evening, and the television advises people to stay indoors to avoid the heavy rain and thunderstorms with tornado warnings. We're expecting at least an inch of rain. CIO

Note:<888> 5/30/98 Sunday 3:30 P.M. EDT: I was up at 7 A.M. this morning. I watched Robert Sculler of Crystal Catherdral while I had breakfast. Let's pray that his wife recovers from her recent surgery and wish them the best of our prayers. I went back to bed until 11 P.M.. I then went out and stopped by downtown, and then went by the Grand Union. I purchased two half gallons of Grand Union not from concentrate orange juice for .99 a half gallon, a quart of lemon juice $1.99, GU 2% milk $1.55, two ears yellow corn for .50, a pound of squash for $1.01, and a dozen large eggs for $1.39 for a total of $8.42. I also picked up a disgarded Compaq monitor downtown at the train station office park that did not work, so I discarded it. I noticed the Connecticut young file makers event at Roger Scherman Baldwin Park is under way. It was overcast and sultry downtown at noon. I made a phone call to a family member. I cleaned my apartment after having dinner of chicken breast, Ramen noodles, and corn of the cob. I listened to www.ttalk.com weekend broadcast while cleaning. The sun is out now, and I am sure it is warm, but my air conditioner is keeping me cool. I will go out in about ten minutes and face the heat. CIO

Note:<888> 5/30/98 Saturday 11:00 P.M. EDT: I rested most of the day. I worked on trying to post a Real G2 *.smi file, but at the moment, don't think it is possible to post a Real File in G2 *.smi format. I noticed the G2 file did not install the Real Plugin for playing realtime *.rpm files which RealAudio 5.0 had, so I reinstalled RealAudio 5.0 to have that plugin activated. I am listening to www.ttalk.com Saturday broadcast at the moment. I posted a new sound file, Maurice Ravel's Bolero www.mikescott.net/bolero.htm . CIO

Note:<888> 5/30/98 Saturday 3:05 A.M. EDT: I went downtown and about 9:30 P.M. and sat out in the rain in front of the Senior center and had a cup of coffee out of my thermos. Downtown was quiet for a Friday night, I guess it was because of the rain. I took a walk around the train station area, and observed the sewer project which looks completed and the black topping is done, and now they have to stripe the road. I walked through the train station underground parking and noticed they had a disgarded 14 inch color Compaq monitor there, which I did not retrieve, since at the moment I don't need another. I will look tomorrow to see if it is still there. I chatted with acquaintence about life in Greenwich in general. I stopped by the Greenwich Police station and reported to them about a five billion dollar crime I had heard about on the internet from www.ttalk.com. Apparently software pirates in Thailand have procurred a copy of Windows 98 and are selling it in Microsoft boxes with the holograph security code label "exact duplicates" for $8.69 to $9.00. I guess they somehow obtained a prerelease copy of the software which is not due out for another month. Basically one could call this a classic case of industrial espionage, and I have advised World Bank and Monetary officials to take appropriate economic sanctions against the offending countries and parties involved. If I stole a 100 Boeing 747s and parked them in my country, I am sure there would be a big Hell a Bellou, but the economic community seems to have been slow to respond to this incident, and it shows that not only the United States Department of Justice is out to lunch on the Microsoft antitrust case, but it is encouraging economic sabotage of the vital corporate materials in the computer industry by not protecting their intellectual property rights in the world community. I knew the Asian community here was being incredably sneeky and tight lipped, and I think it is now safe to assume they're involved in a great deal of economic and industrial espionage and sabotage in their activities. The proof in on the streets of Thailand. Remember once you steal from somebody, they will be far less likely to help you out when you have a real emergency in the future. Once burned thrice shy. I think the Chinese groups who are using Thailand for computer software piracy should be censured, and if I were Microsoft and IBM; I would remove all commercial Chinese versions of my software from general distribution until this case is ironed out. First thing I would do if I were Microsoft is remove the Chinese character code for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 from my web server and if another country in another part of the world did the same thing, I would remove their language characters from the server. Sooner or later what may seem like innocent crime will lead to other major misjudgements in the international community, and what we have learned from conventional wisdom over long periods of historical engagement still applies as far as I am concerned. - - - _ _ _ - - - CIO

Note:<888> 5/29/98 Friday 7:40 P.M. EDT: I downloaded and installed Microsoft Liquid Motion Free Beta animation designing program. It looks promising, but it did crash on me once, so if you try beta testing, it remember to save your work frequently when designing a cartoon with it. Well the monsoon rain storm finally came. It is raining cats and dogs outside, so I guess once it is all over, we should have some fresh air for our evening strolls. I suppose this the normal effect near the ocean on unusally warm days, one gets a moisture buildup in the upper atmosphere, and generally around sunset or shortly before, one gets a heavy thunder shower. I hear quite a bit of thunder at the moment. I watched Peter Jennings on the ABC evening news, and besides covering Barry Goldwater's passing away, he mentioned there are over 200 million cars in the United States, so people are not easily empressed by them since, they're as common as horse manure. In fact having been a pedestrian for a great deal of my life until ten years ago, I actually notice pedestrians more than drivers. Still in the unfriendly weather that we frequently are not use to encountering an automobile can afford us protection, but conversely it can also take us to locations where the weather is more inhospitable than what we're use to encoutering. I remember driving through the Colorado Rockies in December during an over two foot blizzard at night in a Subaru without heat or snow tires with no place to pull over or no money to afford to stop, until I picked up some used snow tires at Vale and continued on to Stapleton airport where I called a relative and they thought I was deranged, needlessly to say I never called that relative again. Thus being a cleaver mechanic and fairly good on driving on snow and not minding too much cold, I made it through that blizzard when all the snow hot dogs were comfortably drinking their beers at the local ski chalets. I think a few truckers were watching over us. See you all on the rebound. CIO

Note:<888> 5/29/98 Friday 5:55 P.M. EDT: I went out for a short spell. Today is definitely a major air pollution day. One can hardly breathe in the ozone carbon monoxide filled environment of the area. I guess all the automobile traffic along the Interstate 95 trying to escape to more friendly environments compiled with the smoke from the fires in Mexico have created this condition. What we need is a good soaking cool rain shower to put the environment back in order. I stopped by the library and chatted with a fellow Illinoisian who has a sense of humour about our predicament here. I mentioned to him that Winston Churchill was in the visitors gallery with J.P. Morgan when the stock market crashed in 1929. I stated that since the British are the largest investors in American they can effect our financial prospects. I read the Town and Country article about Prince Charles collecting petrified wood for his garden. I also thought they had enough dead wood over there in England, but I guess he is going for anything over a 100 million years old. I was upset to read about Barry Goldwater passing away, since I campaigned for him against Nelson Rockefeller while at Greenwich Country Day. Of course he is a pilot and any pilot knows lots of places to hide out where people won't bother them. I also read the Nantucket Magazine, and it showed Reverend Anderson fighting the fire when Prestons Airport Bar and Grill burned down. I suppose the Nantucketeers could never afford to replace it after it burned down. They're so poor with nothing but their scallop money that I doubt if they would know what to do. Realistically there once were a few old guard New England families in Nantucket, but when the new money New Yorkers started showing up, they retreated to more sedate family retreats in the mountains. Of course once you start heading to the mountains, there is a lot more territory around you than on the tiny island of Nantucket. I suppose one could escape to the Rockies, the Alps, the Candian Rockies, or some Alpine summer wonderland. I here tell they have very good windsurfing on the Northern Netherlands coasts and in the lakes of Austria. I suppose one could go up to Scandanavia and enjoy the all day sun of the summer, and walk around the beaches starkers like they tend to do. Of course the Victorian crowd have a network of retreats that are well remember in literary folk lore, and I suppose although they are in somewhat disrepair, they are probably still usable. I here tell the wealthy industrialists of the midwest shunned the shores of the Coasts which are over populated to enjoy the more sedate areas like Mackinaw Island or some of the great old Railroad Tycoon lodges in the Mountains of Idaho or Canada. For the real adventurist, I suppose one would not be too crowded in with the grisslies in Alaska. Well I am can't even afford to visit West Point tomorrow for graduation, so I guess they will have to come down here and visit me. I know the army likes walking, so they can all walk around Greenwich as much as the feel. If you see anyone in blue jeans, they're probably just pretending to be in the Navy while they collect hay for the horses in Back Country. Of course Back Country probably goes all they way up to the Artic circle. I suppose Montreal or Toronto this time of the year offer outdoor entertainment in less hectic surroundings, not to mention the down Easterners in Maine who are only four hours away if you're lucky ride from here. The hottest I ever was in New England was camping out in a tent in June in Hanover, New Hampshire besides the dishwashing duties in Nantucket. I have not checked my Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm yet, but I will post it with this once I retrieve it. I also noticed some people in rented Rolls Royces are putting on the Connecticut young film makers show in Baldwin Park, to try to attract more young people in the business. However unless one is Hebrew, I would avoid that crowd since they tend to be like gypsies trying to feast off the gullibilites of younger people. I dare say they're probably not even paying for the park, fly by night crowd if I've ever seen one. Remember not to screw up where the boss lives, or it could be your job or your livelihood. CIO

Note:<888> 5/29/98 Friday 2:25 P.M. EDT: I worked until 8 A.M. this morning on routine system maintenance. I had the Purdue chicken for dinner. I went to bed and got up about 1:30 P.M.. It feels like it is hot out. I was told the normal temperature for this time of year should be in the mid 70s. I looked at 1997 Forbes Four Hundred Query Page , unfortunately they keep forgetting me. I added Download NetShow 3.0 beta Services to my computer. It looks like a promising alternative to RealAudio. I added Software Library: Wintune 97 to my system and ran it. It recommended changing one item in the properties from a Desktop to a Network System for faster performance on my system. I added Logtime 2.0 NewApps.com - Category: Online Timers to my system and startup to monitor my ISP connect times since MCI limits one to 150 hours, but yet does not provides away to know when one has reached the limit. I installed the Cyrix 6X86 Control Panel to tweak my IBM Cyrix 6X86 233 processor CPU Performance Enhancing Utilities . Be sure to save your original setting before making any changes with this utility if you use the Cyrix 6X86. It seems to have done its thing all right though. I also looked at the usual tech stories this morning. Well I guess I should clean up and have something to eat. I don't know if I want to face the hot weather, but I suppose I will go out for an errand. By the way I have 400 megs free on my hard drive with another 150 megs of stored Microsoft Updates and program downloads stored on the drive. CIO

Note:<888> 5/29/98 Friday 4:10 A.M. EDT: In process of cooking 7 1/2 pound Purdue chicken, it should be ready in 1 1/2 hours. Having a Minute Maid orange soda. CIO

Note:<888> 5/29/98 Friday 3:30 A.M. EDT: Yesterday I went out in the morning, and Greenwich was not yet busy. I made some of the usual rounds. I made my 11 A.M. appointment. I stopped by the library and came home for lunch. I went back out about 1:30 P.M. and walked around downtown a bit. I chatted with a chap trying to sell lottery tickets on a Red Jeep Cheroke wagoneer for $50 apiece in front of the post office. The lottery benefits GEMS the local Emergency Medical Service. They are finishing up with the sewer construction. Lots of people were out shopping. I stopped the library again and chatted with some locals. I chatted with one of my neighbors about English gardening, and she showed me her garden. I went to bed about 5 P.M. and woke up about midnight. I have been having a quiet morning on the net doing some minor adjustments of the system, and reading some tech messages. Today is suppose to be in the 90s, so if one has not acclimated to the summer heat, it is cooler in the morning. My air conditioner is working fine, and I am cool and comfortable on these warmer days. CIO

Note:<888> 5/28/98 Thursday 7:30 A.M. EDT: I email IBM this message:

To: ISOURCE
Subject: RE: Scott's www.mikescott.net/ibm01.htm page IBM directory.

5/28/98
Scott's IBM page
http://www.mikescott.net/ibm01.htm
The IBM page is taking quite a few hits
http://www.mikescott.net/stats.htm
I might try to finish what I have in the bookmark.
http://www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm
I am quite burned out after maintaining the directory for 3 1/2
years and well over 30,000 hours.
Over the last year when I realized the Microsoft and IBM pages
were busy, I gave them prominent display on the homepage.

On May 5, 1998 I installed a new motherboard and IBM Cyrix 233
processor. However until this past Sunday I had to keep reinstalling
the Win95 operating system. I thought the problem was the recent
Solar Flares on the Sun.


It turned out that my old memory was faulty in the new system.
I purchased a 64 meg DIMM at CompUSA in Norwalk on Monday for $119,
and ever since then the system has been running flawlessly.

To make the directory I have to use Netscape 3.04 for its bookmark
capabilities. I have yet to reinstall it, since I am worried it might
corrupt the Win95 operating system with outdated *.dll files and other
changes.

I subscribe to about two dozen email tech news letters from Netscape Inbox
Direct
http://form.netscape.com/ibd/html/ibd_frameset.html
I also subscribe to IBM's email newsletter.
I also look at the IBM and Lotus pages everyday.
I collect the links in the Netscape 3.04 bookmarks,
editing each link to be uniform in my directory structure.
I start each IBM link in the bookmark with "IBM,".
As you can see I start certain subcategories with user friendly
IBM subheading to bunch them together.
After about two months of collecting all the latest IBM links,
I have to take the Netscape bookmark, and with a text editor
I use the OS/2 editor since it does not put in line spaces,
and edit cut and paste the IBM Netscape bookmark links from the page and
place them in a seperate file.
I also take out the top headings installed by Netscape and the
bottom heading in the page, if they're still there, so it is just the links.
Then I use the OS/2 Boxer editor to Search and Replace the Netscape link
code on the page, leaving simple HTML code of the links.
Note: the Search and replace string for the boxer editor is
AD*"*"*"*"*"*" for search and replace with nothing "no code", this takes out all the Netscape date code.
I then "select all" and unindent and left justify the code.
I save it and put then add it to the existing ibm01.htm page.
Then I put in <h1>*</h1> at the top of the page and save it.
I then open the file in the Netscape 3.04 bookmarks and sort if
alphabetically.
I then save it.
I then go through the same Boxer OS/2 progress again to remove the
Netscape date code with Search and Replace and unindenting.
Once I have the clean file,
I put my ibm01.htm page header information code and bottom header
information at the top and bottom of the page.
I usually take the top dozen links from the original ibm01.htm page
that have primary links and financial links and once again place them
at the beginning.

When you have the IBM list in the Netscape 3.04 bookmarks for sorting
alphabetically you can use
LinkSweeper
http://www.lss.com.au/lss/windows/ls/linksweeper.htm
to remove outdated and broken links.
I did this once and it did a very good job removing about 1,500
outdated links.

Thus you should have an updated "ibm01.htm" page.

However a great deal of the work is surfing the email newslinks
and webpages for IBM links to add to the directory. Since I worked
on a lot of different categories, I kept a lot of different links in
the bookmark as I compiled them since IBM links pop up all the time
surfing various other sites.

It is important to edit the links so that links like IBM, Networking
links appear in groups together, by opening the Netscape bookmark
properties to edit the link, and also to reenter the link in different
subcatgories, like IBM, Ebusiness etc. Thus duplicate links appear under
different names.

Anymore questions let me know.

Remember I have spent up to 30,000 hours on the site in the last 3 1/2
years constantly, and I am quite burned out from it all, and I have
depleted my extra financial resources on the activity.

You are the first person from IBM to email me, except John
Patrick at the Internet division who links the site. I have
let the site go by word of mouth to keep it perspective, since it
is all done on a shoe string budget.

Anymore questions let me know.

Yours Truely,

Michael Louis Scott
71 Vinci Drive
Apt. # 206
Greenwich, Connecticut
06830
203-531-6754
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ISOURCE [mailto:isource@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 9:57 AM
> To: mikescott@ibm.net
> Subject:
>
>
> Thank you so much for all the hard work and effort you have put
> into your Web
> site. I have looked at it and bookmarked it for my records.
> Will someone else
> be updating the site? If not, I would like to know how it can be
> updated since
> I am interested in keeping it going. Please send a response to
> tracisal@us.ibm.com. Thank you.
>
>
> IBM iSource, your electronic source for the latest IBM information.
> Send e-mail to: iSource@us.ibm.com.
> To view, modify, or update your subscription , visit our web site:
> http://www.ibm.com/iSource
>

End of Message

Time for another nap until 9 A.M.

Note:<888> 5/28/98 Thursday 6:00 A.M. EDT: NYPD in process of arresting someone in Queens? on "Supreme Court Mental Hygene Warrant". I guess we better dress up and clean up when visiting New York. CIO

Note:<888> 5/28/98 Thursday 5:45 A.M. EDT: I downloaded Lotus Notes 4.6 while I took a nap from 2 A.M. to 4 A.M., but I could not get it to install properly since I don't have a Lotus Notes server, so I deleted it. IBM should get its act together at Lotus and make software installation a no brainer for the general public. I suppose we could move Lotus out of Academically backwards Cambridge, Massachussetts and put it in some intellectual zone like Beverly Farms, Massachussetts. Back to the net. New York City Police broadcasts should be picking up. Lots of traffic I am sure. CIO

Note:<888> 5/28/98 Thursday 12:55 A.M. EDT: I went out at 11 P.M.. I linked policescanner.com - live police & fire broadcasts from my homepage. Right now a 100 motorcycles are doing over 100 miles an hour on the Grand Central Parkway. I went for a walk when out. The sewer project is still underway, but just about done. I noticed a distinct smell of methane sewer gas in the air. I hope it all does not blow up. I guess if the present temporary line blew up, it would take out the railroad bridge, and then we would have quite a bit of traffic congestion. Tonight was really quiet. I noticed three disgarded computer shells at the train station office building. Most of their parts had been stripped. I did pick up a sliding keyboard drawer for my backup bedroom computer. I took out the two four meg chips out of the left side 386 and put eight one megs. I put the two four megs in my sound card on the main computer. Thus I should have superior sound. I suppose more people are not eating out with the market down, so they're feeling poorer. Well back to net. CIO

Note:<888> 5/27/98 Wednesday 8:45 P.M. EDT: I was up at 3 A.M. this past morning. I surfed the net. I updated my system with a few shareware program. They are DOWNLOAD.COM -- RAS Professional if you have multiple ISP dialups, DOWNLOAD.COM -- CD Streamer to encode CDs, DOWNLOAD.COM -- vTuner for listening to broadcasts. I also downloaded the Real G2 beta Real G2 which has some very interesting features and works fine on my system. They recommend that you keep Real version 5 and install into a different directory. I also already have Link Sweeper which is useful for proofing ones bookmarks. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm which has not been doing well the last couple of days. Well it's only a demo portfolio, I am not lucky enough to have that net wealth. One of the interesting happening on the net this week is Second Int'l Harvard Conference on Internet & Society . I slept from 1 P.M. until 6 P.M. this afternoon, and had a ribeye steak for dinner and am now having my coffee. I have a 11 A.M. appointment Thursday morning. I have not been out today yet, and I still have to shower and cleanup. I updated Scott's Computer Setup . This past morning from 3 A.M. to 6 A.M. I installed my old two 8 meg simms in my backup 486 computer along with the Diamond Stealth memory card. I am only running Win 3.1 on it and OS/2 since it has two slow hard drives. I am finishing up listening to www.ttalk.com and www.dailybriefing.com . The new Real G2 has interesting setup presets. I guess more audio will be appearing on the net. Well lets finish the coffee and clean up. CIO

Note:<888> 5/26/98 Tuesday 5:10 P.M. EDT: I went out about noon. I stopped by the Putnam Trust Office on Mason Street and got money to fill up the car at Exxon with $11.50 of premium at $1.43 a gallon. I went by the Hospital Thrift Shop and they some new furniture offerings. I went down by the harbor at Grass Island and sat out in the sun from 12:30 P.M. to 1:30 P.M. and observed the harbor and got a little daylight. I did not notice much nautical traffic. There is a sporty sailboat at the Greenwich Harbor Inn from the Guernsey Islands that has been here before. I went up town to the library. The library parking lot was full, and I adventually found a parking space. I read the Greenwich Times and the four weekly computer publications I usually read from last week. I will still have to read this weeks when they come in. I went by the Food Emporium and purchased 2% half gallon Sealtest milk for $2.05, a Purdue chicken at .99 a pound for $7.51, two ears of corn for .50 for a total of $10.06. I went by the Arnold Bakery Outlet in Byram and purchased 3 loaves of Healthnut bread for $3.87. My purchase card was filled up, so I got two free French cheese cakes, and also a breakfast ring pastry. I returned home and had a light dinner of peanut butter sandwich, Ramen noodles, cheese cake and soda. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm for you investment research, it was down a bit today. Perhaps nice warm weather brings out the Bears. I noticed the usual air traffic today. Lots of prop planes instead of jets. CIO

Note:<888> 5/26/98 Tuesday 10:45 A.M. EDT: Surfed the net until now. All systems go. Enjoying exploring the net instead of working on the bookmarks. I have had breakfast and will now shower and go out. Looks to be a sunny day. CIO

Note:<888> 5/26/98 Tuesday 7:00 A.M. EDT: System has run fine all night without any problems. I guess it is all back up and running fine now. I did install the HP Colorado Cheyanne Backup 3.11 and made a full backup. I also installed my copy of Wordperfect 6.0. I did notice when I installed the Cheyanne backup, it slowed down my system a little bit on starting up by about 5 seconds, but everything once they system is up and running seems to going great. I have not had any system errors or crashes all night, so I think I am back to normal work routine. I will go out for a little daylight this morning. CIO

Note:<888> 5/26/98 Tuesday 1:25 A.M. EDT: I was up at 9:30 A.M. yesterday. I watched the Memorial Day cermonies on TV from Arlington. I had a friend come down at 1:30 P.M.. We went to CompUSA in White Plains. They had 32 meg DIMMs on sale for $59, but they were out. We had them check the store in Norwalk, and they said they had them. We went up to the store in Norwalk, and apparently the report of them having them was false, but based on the inventory at the beginning of the day. The manager Aaron was very helpful, he offered to let me have the 64 meg DIMM at the 32 meg sale price of two for $119 plus tax. I got it and thanked Aaron. We drove home and I installed the 64 meg DIMM changing my motherboard setting to 3.3 volts for DIMMs. It was hard getting the 64 Meg DIMM installed since the motherboard had a little flex, so I removed my periferals in the slots and lowered the motherboard from the bottom of the case. With the motherboard exposed, I was able to install the DIMM no problem in slot one. The system booted fine, and I opened the CMOS to recognized the memory. I accept the CMOS default of 10 ns and automatic for memory. I then removed my one meg memory card and activated the onboard memory setting it at 4 megs when the system booted in the CMOS. I installed the driver from the Cdrom that came with the motherboard for the onboard memory. The system seems to be working great, and I have not had any problems. I guess my old memory was a little buggy. Everything is working fine so far. I gave my friend dinner and we watched the History Channel until 8 P.M.. I went to bed and got up just now. I will probably go back to bed shortly for a while after testing the system for a few minutes. CIO

Note:<888> 5/25/98 Monday 3:00 A.M. EDT: I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm and Scott's Stats www.mikescott.net/stats.htm . CIO

Note:<888> 5/25/98 Monday 2:30 A.M. EDT: I was up at 2:30 A.M. Sunday morning. After breakfast I cleaned the apartment and watered the plants. I did a little computer work tweaking the system. It all seems to be fine. I went out at 7:30 A.M. and had two croissants from St. Moritz and ate them in the park in front of the senior center. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I stopped by CVS and purchased two boxes Kellogs raisin bran for $1.50 each,CVS antacid pills $2.99, European Mystique Coco Shampoo and Conditioner both .99, CVS mouthwash $2.39, CVS toothpaste 1.39, Edge shaving cream $2.39, Licorice twists .99, CVS disposable razors $1.79, CVS peanuts $2.29, CVS gum drops .99 for a total of $19.87. I sat in front of the senior center and watched the morning Starbucks crowd until 10 A.M.. I drove down Steamboat Road and observed the water. The sewer project is still under way. I drove by Grass Island and observed the harbor. I notice a gal in a new white Ford Escort with a driver who looked a bit like Queen Elizabeth. I returned thru Bruce Park and drove west on the Post Road back home. I chatted with family members. I went to bed until 2:30 P.M. when a guest showed up. We drove back down to Grass Island and sat for a while observing the harbor and the nautical traffic. We went for a drive up North Street and down Round Hill Road looking at all the new housing construction. On Close Road I noticed two homes that look like they have been abandoned for some reason. We returned home for a slight rest at 6 P.M. went to the Hunan Gourmet for dinner. I had the spicey Shrimp and Scallops with vegatables on rice. We returned home and watched 60 minutes. I fell asleep and my guest left. I went to bed until 1 A.M. and got up and started my laundry, and I am doing drying now. I had Ramen noodles for a light breakfast and ice tea. I will surf the net this morning. The computer system seems to be running fine. The only non Microsoft program I have on the computer is RealAudio 5.0. My Cheyanne backup 3.11 program does not work, but would if I reinstalled it, however I think it might write older files to the operating system, so I won't restore it just now. I have the key data files on tape. Well back to surfing the net. CIO

Note:<888> 5/23/98 Saturday 11:00 P.M. EDT: I finally got the system up and running since I had made backup copies of system.dat user.dat and system.ini. To make backups of them or replace them when restoring a faulty registry one needs to use the attrib command. I have updated all the Microsoft updates. The system seems stable, but I have yet to put it through its paces. I have not been out today. I had a dinner guest down for dinner. I slept five hours this afternoon, and I am back up to bed shortly. Have a good night. CIO

Note:<888> 5/23/98 Saturday 9:30 A.M. EDT: I downloaded the updated version of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 available today, however when it went to install it crippled my system and kept it from booting Windows. I had just made backup copies of my system.dat, system.ini, and user.dat files, so I restored them and reinstalled windows and set it up. When I tried to install the cdrom version of Windows 4.01 it would not install, acting as if I had the updated version on my system, which I may have, but it would not start. I finally put the Internet Explorer files in the recycle bin along with the *.cab files, to be restored if needed. The iesetup.exe file for installing IE 4.01 for downloading would not work. The Outlook 98 setup.exe does work, and right now I am downloading a minimal installed of IE 4.01 and Outlook 98 which will take about an hour and a half. This is real pain, and I hope it installs, so I can do a proper update of IE 4.01 and the other updated programs. I will let you know in about two hours. At the moment I don't have a web browser. Maybe it was my system, and not MS, who knows. What a pain. CIO

Note:<888> 5/23/98 Saturday 2:00 A.M. EDT: I was up at 10 P.M. this past evening. I was up until 2 P.M. yesterday. The Greenwich family crowds were out in full force yesterday. Lots of mothers and tiny tots strolling around. We had a sunny day for a change, so the library construction was busier. I noticed a 727 jet with Blue and Gold tail fin landing about noon. Perhaps some VIP flew into the area, it was not the usual green plane, maybe it was a U.S. Navy executive jet. Greenwich Avenue sewer project is suppose to be finished yesterday, so maybe the Avenue traffic patterns will be back to normal. I noticed a retired Greenwich resident checking out the Windows 98 book from the library. I guess I should have looked for it first. I will have to check and see if there is another copy tomorrow. I chatted with a young Greenwich high school teacher about life in general, which I am sure he found interesting. I heard rumours about Tall Ships on the Hudson yesterday and this weekend. The Indian Harbor Yacht Club has a sail boat the Windsong, which I believe was the name of Marjorie Post's Yacht. I am still trying to remember the name of Czar Nicholas' Yacht, I believe it began with an "S". Well the next three days are a holiday weekend, so I am sure people are trying to relax. Hopefully we will have some decent weather for a change. Thrift shops have the usual assortment of goods. Greenwich seems to be getting back to normal after a confusing week. Well have a good holiday. If anyone spots the Norwegian sailing vessel the "Viking" in their travels, please email me its location. CIO

Note:<888> 5/22/98 Friday 7:55 A.M. EDT: I caught up on my sleep on Thursday. I chatted with friends and family members on Thursday, and they seem to think the country is being invaded. Perhaps it is because so many people here have prospered recently, they are all traveling overseas, and we are recieving visitors back. I strongly urge visitors to observe the universal rules of ettiquette when they travel, and if they have any questions to consult with their travel advisors. Besides West Point graduation next Saturday, we have Yale University's graduation exercises this coming Monday up in New Haven. I was advised the Greenwich Harbor Inn is pretty busy. I noticed the night before last, it looked like all the lights on Long Island were out, but maybe they were just in the fog over there as usual. I did see the North Shore lights blinking this morning as usual. Traffic congestion on Greenwich Avenue will continue to be the rule, since sewer construction is still underway at the bottom of Greenwich Avenue. Visitors at the Greenwich Harbor Inn will have to walk via the Train Station overpass or around on Arch Street. The guests who visited us recently in large number to purchase Powerball lottery tickets seem to have all dispersed. I checked with Wells Fargo security about whether their services are available in this area. Their alarm company is in New Jersey. We generally use Wells Fargo Security or Burns Security in Greenwich since they are old family friends and tend to have a professional attitude particularly Well Fargo security. However Well Fargo seems to have disappeared, so perhaps Wackenhut Security is still in the area. Needless to say the Greenwich Poice know a lot more than they tell the citizens. I did not get yesterday's 65 email messages since my email program crashed and ate all the messages. I noticed that MCI provides account information on the internet about people's telephone records which might not be very secure and outside intruders could possibly check other people's telephone records. We tend to be an established community here, and have a fairly well developed infrastructure with the New York Metropolitan area, and I suppose newcommers who think they know it all might not be aware that we have a highly skilled group of professionals in the area at our disposal. Well hopefully Greenwich will be a bit quieter this morning, and I will get to see a bit of daylight for the first time in about a month. The computer seems to be running all right. I have not been paying much attention to tech recently since I hope to get a little exercise like I did last night while the weather is desent. I did noticed Rib Eye Steaks are $2.99 a pound at the Food Emporium. The night before last all the Grand Union computers were down possibly because of solar flares, so I explored the Food Emporium. Somebody has started some nonsense rumour that the White Syberian Tiger has escaped from the Bronx Zoo, and is on the prowl, but I did not see any evidence of it around last night. If it should approach you I would advise you stay calm and hope your beeper works. Perhaps you could try to lure it into a local grocery store and show it the meat counter. Tigers tend not to be a threat except when they're hungry, so hopefully the Tiger is finding plenty to eat if it actually did escape. I did not know the Bronx Zoo had a Syberian Tiger since I rarely go to Bronx except for when I use to travel through it on the way to Manhattan, but I have not been to Manhattan in six years. Last time I went there I went surfing at a local pub in Chelsea on a Sunday night. Yeh, they use to call me "Moon Doggy" at the Beach. I don't surf, I just have an interesting Karma around the oceans having lived near them for a number of years. Perhaps an alligator or dolphin adopted me years ago in the early 1950s down in Florida. I do remember a number of strange fish and reptiles. Well off to see the daytime powerful people make their financial decisions. See you on the rebound. By the way this Sunday is Queen Victoria's 179 birthday, so the Anglophile community should have some sort of party at the Greenwich Country Club where the replica of the Queen Victoria Golf Trophy has been displayed for quite a few years, I believe the original melted when the Club burned down a number of years ago. Of course one would have to be invited if there were such a party or be related to Queen Victoria or Prince Albert or one of their relatives. Well we're all dirt poor here, so I guess we can't afford to put on the old feed bag and entertain. No evidence of the Cykedas showing up in the food chain yet, but their basically a grub, so I guess you could eat them. I missed my Thursday appointment, since I needed my rest. CIO