[AccessD] Access 2007 - Microsoft is just plain stupid.

Andy Lacey andy at minstersystems.co.uk
Tue Dec 11 01:55:42 CST 2007


Sorry Rocky but this moderator has been crossed. Drew's topic started on
Access security. How we got here I can't remember but let's either get back
on-topic or keep out.

Thanks

-- Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
> Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software
> Sent: 11 December 2007 06:19
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2007 - Microsoft is just plain stupid.
> 
> 
> John:
> 
> I'd take this off-line but I actually don't have your email 
> address.  So at the risk of crossing the moderator:
> 
> When he was six my son couldn't sit still.  He was eventually 
> diagnosed with ADHD by a reputable professional.  Whereupon 
> we immediately fired her ass.
> 
> 
> He was emotionally about three years behind and 
> intellectually about three years ahead.  Couldn't sit still 
> for 6 minutes.  Unless he was really absorbed in something.  
> Then - no time limit.  
> 
> He was eventually diagnosed with ADHD by a reputable 
> professional. Whereupon we immediately fired her ass.  
> 
> Now he's 11 and...normal. Does his homework.  Sits at his 
> desk in class. Practices the piano. 
> 
> He was actually the poster child for this:
> 
> http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2007
> 1209/HEALTH/31
> 2090003
> 
> 
> That ADHD net is being cast wide and far.
> 
> Watch out for this.  All boys are "hyper".  Some more than 
> others.   Visit
> his class.  Watch the girls sit obediently and color.  Watch 
> the boys move restlessly around the room.  
> 
> They're a trial.  But of course, there's nothing much else 
> really worth doing in life (IMO).  Ask Donna Cook.
> 
> Rocky
> 
>  	
> 	
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:25 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2007 - Microsoft is just plain stupid.
> 
> Susan, in fact everyone does not know the rules.  I just 
> discovered the rules a few years ago and I am darned old.  Of 
> course I didn't much care back then and don't particularly 
> care now.  I have more important things to worry about.
> 
> We have been working with my six year old son Robbie to "get 
> no marks" at school.  He's a hyper little guy and drives his 
> teachers crazy.  So we started doing a "no marks for a week 
> and you will get a prize".  The teacher was out for a couple 
> of days and the substitute teacher gave him no marks. When 
> the teacher came back, home comes a mark.  We are talking to 
> him about the mark and he says "I just can't do it with my 
> teacher.  I gotta get her out of there.".
> 
> Now THAT worries me!!!
> 
> ;-)
> 
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
> Susan Harkins
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 5:08 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2007 - Microsoft is just plain stupid.
> 
> Arthur, I think everyone knows the rules. However, sometimes 
> our fingers and brains aren't in synch. It happens to me all 
> the time. I suppose it's up to you whether something like 
> this bothers you, but seems like a waste of good energy to me. ;)
> 
> Susan H.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Speaking of rants, it irritates the hail out of me when people
> > incorrectly use "it's" when they intended "its". There is a very 
> > simple
> rule here:
> > "it's" is a contraction of "it is", as in "it's raining 
> cats and dogs
> > and there are poodles all over." "Its", on the other hand, is a 
> > possessive pronoun of neutral gender, as in "Despite its 
> intentions, 
> > China was unable to confine its populace to having merely one child 
> > per
> family."
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