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 > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com