[AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives?

William Hindman wdhindman at bellsouth.net
Thu Mar 4 10:27:58 CST 2004


...AccessD was alive and well long before 2001 :)

William Hindman "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with
me." Disraeli

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bartow" <john at winhaven.net>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:51 AM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives?


> I don't blame you, after the run of luck you've had!
>
> I'm leery every time I do a presentation. I don't mind speaking in front
of
> people but it seems something always goes wrong - no matter how prepared I
> am. I've done presentations for conferences where the coordinator
guaranteed
> the equipment was what I asked for and when I show up they have projectors
> that don't handle 1024x768 which is the only res. at which my laptop's
video
> looks good (640 cuts the text lines up). I had another conference where I
> was setup 30 minutes early, everything worked fine, unplug my laptop and
the
> first presenter plugs his in, he goes on and finishes, I plug my laptop
into
> the projector and POOF my laptop's screen goes out. It took about 20
minutes
> to get it all rearranged so that my partner could run the presentation
from
> the projected image rather than the laptop, while I talked about it. (we
> were showing a new app. live of course.) Luckily there was a third
presenter
> that went on in our time slot and 500 people weren't just sitting there
> getting irritated. Took a month to get the screen replaced too :o(
>
> John
>
> BTW AccessD as we know it was formed in 2001 so I guess I have it narrowed
> down enough now :o)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of
> DWUTKA at marlow.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:47 AM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives?
>
>
> I actually gave a presentation on the 'indexing' capabilities I built for
> the archives last month.  After my track record with major changes/updates
> to the archives, I was just a little leary to give that presentation....go
> figure!
>
> Drew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Bartow
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:24 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives?
>
>
> Drew,
> Yes, it is an interesting timeline, I thought of a few of those things
too!
> :o)
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of
> DWUTKA at marlow.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:47 AM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives?
>
>
> Hmmmm, let's work backwards.  I know that the archives stopping archiving
> this past August/September (2003), because that's when I separated from
> Tammy.  I know the archives started using the 'Memo Field Indexing' in
April
> of 2003, because that is when my apartment caught fire.  I know I moved
the
> archives from Marlow to my home in early January of 2003, because my DSL
> company went bankrupt and pulled the plug on their network then.
>
> I have no clue when I actually 'started' the archives, other then a wild
> guess at about 6 months before I moved it home.  So I would say July or
> August of 2002.
>
> Drew (Interesting timeline, eh?)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Bartow
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 9:00 PM
> To: _DBA-Access
> Subject: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives?
>
>
> Drew,
> Someone recently asked me how long I have been on this list. The only
point
> of reference I could think of was about two years before I sent all my
> archives to Drew!
>
> So, Do you know when you put the archives together on your site?
>
> John "My memory is 40 years ahead of it time (I have a like I'm over 80)"
> Bartow
>
>
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