Note:<888> 01/31/07 Wednesday 2:30 P.M.:   I installed the Vista language updates which took a while.   I rested while they were being installed.  I ordered seven cartons of New York Seneca Ultra Lights 100s in a box for $12.49 a carton plus $14.46 shipping for $101.89 total.   I will now do the Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I will then do one from the first hard drive to the Bytecc external hard drive.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/31/07 Wednesday 4:05 A.M.:   Windows, Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates - Microsoft Fetes Vista With Glitter And Hype - CRN .  Gates, Vista - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates Unveils Availability of Vista, Office 2007 .  Estación Lidar Camagüey .  IV Workshop: Ilhabela, Brasil .  GEO — Group on Earth Observations | Home .  eGY: The electronic Geophysical Year .  Microsoft Answers 'Vista OEM' Questions - News and Analysis by PC Magazine .  I went through my email.  I will now do a Vista Complete PC backup of my primary computer, while I work on configuring the Epox server Vista beta 2 server.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/31/07 Wednesday 2:25 A.M.:  I bet a good portion of the world is going through the turmoil of configuring Vista today.   I finished configuring the Vista beta 2 server on the primary FIC computer, and I have the server now running off of it.   I will use the Epox backup server running Vista Beta 2 Server for backup, and the Epox computer can also be used for a regular computer work on its XP partition.   I have to install the last Adobe Reader and Sun Java programs for Vista on the primary Vista computer.   I chatted with two relatives.   I reheated the remaining onion soup in the General Electric microwave oven on one vegetable cycle.   While doing that I toasted two English muffins or four halves that I cut into quarter wedges, and I put them on top of the soup in the large 18 ounce Cobalt Blue soup bowl, and I sprinkled five tablespoons of grate parmesan cheese on the mixture, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I also have to do some configuration work on the Vista beta 2 server on the Epox backup server.   One of these days I will get around to checking my email.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/30/07 Tuesday 7:30 P.M.:   I woke up at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 toasted English muffins with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I was able to fix the Vista Server beta 2 boot manager on the FIC server with Download EasyBCD 1.52 - NeoSmart Technologies .   I chatted with a relative.   The relative told me that Al Gore supposedly was the first person to be interviewed on CSPAN.   When I went to Lookout Mountain Camp :: at age 10 and 11 back in 1960 and 1961, I was about the youngest camper in the camp with campers up to ten years older than me most of whom were from prominent southern families.   Thus I could have been in camp with Ted Turner, Al Gore, George Bush, or Bill Clinton, and I was always the small brat kid, one of three Yankees in the entire camp of about 300 boys.   http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/lookout-mountain-camp-1961.jpg and http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/lookout-mountain-camp-1960.jpg .   Thus some of my older fellow campers would be around 66 years old today.   I will now go back to configuring the FIC server.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/30/07 Tuesday 8:35 A.M.:   I installed the Vista beta2 server on the primary FIC server in a secondary partition, and I configured it a bit.   It does not come with the Windows Media player, and the Media Player 11 for XP can not be installed on it.   For some reason on the FIC server, Vista server beta 2 messed up my XP boot manager which I repaired, but then the Vista boot manager did not appear, and when I repaired that again, the XP partition would not work.   I did not have that problem on the Epox server.   I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed.  I will eat a couple of scoops of butter pecan ice cream first.   I have plenty of time to work on it all when I wake up later on today.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/30/07 Tuesday 3:55 A.M.:  I went out after the last message without cleaning up.   I went downtown, and I used the ATM machine on Greenwich Avenue at Putnam Trust Bank of New York.   I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I chatted with a Greenwich taxi driver from Columbia.  In front of CVS by the garbage can, I found on the ground a Verizon Wireless telephone card for $30, and when I got home, I called them up, and they gave me the PIN number, but their computers are not working to see if the card has any money on it.   A $30 balance is apparently only good for 60 days.   After my walk, I sat out for a while.   I then drove down by the waterfront.   The Delamar on Greenwich Harbor is still flying the Canadian flag, so I am sure any Canadians would feel comfortable there is they came down here to visit our warmer weather by Canadian standards.   Microsoft Launches Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 to Consumers Worldwide: Flagship products available at over 39,000 retail locations and online around the world. and  http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/vistaofficelaunch/images/01-29Celebration2_lg.jpg .  I will now go through my email.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/30/07 Tuesday 1:00 A.M.:  Microsoft Vista is now available to buy Windows Vista: Home Page and http://mikelouisscott.com/visbeta.htm .   After the last message, I chatted with a relative.  I made and ate the same meal as last night.   I chatted with my friend in Manhattan, and my friend was unable to attend the Microsoft Vista Launch in Manhattan.   I guess he is reducing his carbon foot print from the upper east side to midtown Manhattan, but it has been a cold day, and it is currently 19 degrees Fahrenheit Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .   I took a nap.   I watched the presentation on Cspan 2 of the Harvard Club of Manhattan www.harvard.edu presenting Prince Charles The Prince of Wales their environmental award, and he spoke at the presentation about the global environment The Prince of Wales - The Prince of Wales is presented with the 10th Global Environmental Citizen Award in New York .    Earlier I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes, and I also washed the dinner dishes.   I will now go out briefly on an errand.   I will not bother cleaning up to reduce my carbon foot print, and I will not be walking downtown this evening, since I am a bit tired.   I figure moving around at night probably reduces my carbon foot print, since less people are moving around.   I should be back within the hour, but I will dress warmly, since it is a bit cold out.   A relative sent me a New York Times article about taking Niacin, which I have done since about 1975 regularly.   It supposedly helps one reduce cholesterol, and I think it also builds brain synapses.  However, I also use cinnamon on my oatmeal, which frequently makes me smell like the rear end of a horse.    Back in a while.   CIO        

Note:<888> 01/29/07 Monday 7:00 P.M.:  For some reason the Bill Gates Webcasts Bill Gates Celebrates Worldwide General Availability of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System January 29, 2007 1:45 p.m. PST 4:45 p.m. EST  web cast is not available yet.   He is suppose to be back in Seattle, Washington tomorrow for some comedy television show.   I changed the Nvida setting to display in clone mode on the Sony television, but it came out in black and white on the television.   I tried installing the Nvidia drivers again, but it still was still in black and white.   I have the connector for its connecting cables sitting on my right mouse pad, and I adjusted it tighter, and it finally worked in color on the Sony television.   However, the Nvidia setting only showed a regular television and not a HDTV, so I restored my Vista Complete PC backup, and I am back to normal again.   I would recommend to any new installers of Vista Business and Ultimate, once they have installed it to back it up, and then to back it up again after they have configured it which can take a few days depending on the hardware, software, and drivers that one is using.    Since I run a fairly simple system, it is not too difficult.   However, one also has to download Vista versions of software and drivers, which I keep saved on my second hard drive in case I had to reinstall Vista again.   I am waiting for the evening news to end before I chat with some relatives.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/29/07 Monday 3:55 P.M.:  I was awake at 2 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 toasted English muffins with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I picked up my mail downstairs.   I will watch this at 4:45 P.M.Bill Gates Webcasts Bill Gates Celebrates Worldwide General Availability of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System January 29, 2007 1:45 p.m. PST 4:45 p.m. EST .  I will then shower and clean up and go out.   Life on the quiet side of Manhattan has its advantages, since we do not have to many lines and a lot of traffic after the Rush Hour traffic disappears.   With global communications, nobody seems to want to communicate to much with me.   I guess being on a night schedule, there are not many people awake at night in this area anymore.  The environmentalists want us to reduce our global carbon imprints, and I have done my best by traveling less locally.   One can buy the Leadtek - We make dreams a reality WinFast DTV2000H from Australia at these links Leadtek WinFast DTV2000H - Price Comparison - Buy at cheap prices .   One is available from England here eBay: Leadtek Winfast DTV2000H Hybrid Digital & Anologue TV (item 230083372795 end time Feb-01-07 02:01:58 PST) .  CIO      

Note:<888> 01/29/07 Monday 7:30 A.M.:   I put half of the remaining onion soup about 16 ounces in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, and I reheated it on two vegetable cycles in the General Electric microwave oven.   I then put it in a large Cobalt Blue soup bowl, and I had toasted two English muffin halves that I cut into quarter wedges, and I spread them over the soup, and I sprinkled a few tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese over it.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I will now do a Vista Complete PC backup of the primary computer from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I then will shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed.   Have a good day.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/29/07 Monday 6:40 A.M.:  During my walk, I found by the Greenwich Avenue movie theatre a blue knit acrylic hat made in Indonesia that I brought back home, and I put it with my other knit caps on the back of the down sofa.  I went through my email.  I looked at some TV cards.  While looking at a Digital TV card, I noticed this More Bad ATI News: TV Wonder 650 Recalled at Forever Geek .  Since I have a Digital Cable box, maybe I should look into a Digital TV Card for the computer.   This one is available Leadtek - We make dreams a reality WinFast DTV1000 T , but it is not Vista ready yet, and I am not sure whether it would work with my Digital Cable TV box.   This is available for both digital and analog Leadtek - We make dreams a reality WinFast DTV2000H and it is Vista Ready, and so is this one Leadtek - We make dreams a reality WinFast DTV1800H .  None seem to be available in the U.S.A. right now, so possibly they would not work with out Digital Cable Systems.   I do know in the next year www.cablevision.com is suppose to be changing from Analog to Digital signals, so I guess despite the release of Vista today, one might think of waiting on a newer TV card, until one can get one that would work with both digital and analog signals.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/29/07 Monday 3:45 A.M.:  The friends in Manhattan that I gave my Vista Launch reservation ticket too are important volunteers in Manhattan.  One is a volunteer for the American Red Cross - Preparing Communities for an Emergency and Keeping People Safe - Preparedness and the other volunteered for Disaster Services during "911".   They have stayed there a good deal of the time since "911", since they are also retired elsewhere.   Thus I think both of them would be welcomed even though there is only one reservation that I was able to send them.   I went out after the last message.   I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I stopped by the ATM machine at the Greenwich Avenue branch of Putnam Trust Bank of New York.   I sat out at various locations.   I next took the car for a drive to charge up its car battery.   I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  I then drove up through town and up Milbank Avenue and East on East Putnam Avenue, and I drove down into Old Greenwich as far as the gate at Tod's Point which usually opens at sunrise.   I then returned along the waterfront driving along the Mianus River by the The Greenwich Red Cross and through Bruce Park and through town by the Greenwich Town Hall Welcome to the official Town of Greenwich Connecticut Web site and back home.  I took my yellow jump start system with me in case my car needed a jump start or if I saw anyone whom needed a jump start.   There were not many people out.   There is a black car on Greenwich Avenue just south of Vineyard Vines with two flat tires on the right side.   I will now do some regular computer work.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/29/07 Monday 12:10 A.M.:   Newegg - The" Wow" starts now.Get Windows Vista Today .   I chatted with a friend.   I emailed my Vista Launch invitation to a friend that lives in Manhattan, so perhaps they will let the friend use it, since I will not be using it, since I am on a night schedule.   I made and ate the same burger and onions with vegetables and rice meal that I have been eating recently.   Local weather Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .   I will now shower, and I will clean up, and I will go out for a drive to charge up the car battery, and I might also take a walk downtown, since it is a quiet night.   I will now shut down the primary computer.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/28/07 Sunday 10:30 P.M.:  I was awake at 2 P.M. this afternoon.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 toasted English muffins with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   I went back to bed until 6 P.M..  I chatted with a relative and two friends.   It took a while, but I got the Epox server working with the Microsoft Vista Server beta 2 build 6001 Microsoft Windows Server code name "Longhorn" Beta 2 Home .   The IIS server in it sets up the same way basically as the XP IIS server, but when setting up the Vista Server FTP server, one has to enable inbound input in the Firewall to transfer files from my primary Vista machine to the Vista server.   I chatted with a relative.  British royals on whirlwind U.S. visit - CNN.com  .  Royal Couple Takes A Bite Of The Apple, Charles And Camilla Tour Harlem Academy Before Environmental Ceremony - CBS News  .  CBS news this evening said on television the Harvard Award was to be at the Harvard Club The Harvard Club of New York City nearby where Microsoft is to lunch Vista tomorrow at the Viacom Building at 1515 Broadway at 44th street Windows Vista: Home Page and Windows Vista - Show us your "Wow" .  Bill Gates Webcasts .   Unfortunately since I am on a night schedule and with limited funds, I probably will not be attending the event to which I have been invited to.   I have not been able to cancel my reservation, so they will be expecting me.   Alas night owls at the skunks works do not get much attention.   CIO     

Note:<888> 01/28/07 Sunday 9:45 A.M.:   I ate three scoops of butter pecan ice cream.   In the notes on Newegg.com - Microsoft Windows Vista 32-Bit Ultimate for System Builders Single Pack DVD - OEM , it says the OEM version is only good for installing on the same computer, and it can not be transferred to another computer or used in one that has had a major upgrade like a motherboard upgrade.  I took the Leadtek WinFast TV2000 Expert card Leadtek - We make dreams a reality WinFast TV2000 XP Expert from the primary server, and I took out the Hauppauge WinTV Go card from the primary computer, and I put the LeadTek card in the primary computer.   I installed its latest drivers Leadtek - We make dreams a reality WinFast TV2000 XP Expert/WinFast DV2000 Vista drivers, and I then installed the Leadtek - We make dreams a reality WinFast PVR3000 Deluxe application Leadtek - We make dreams a reality WinFast PVR3000 Deluxe Application , but it did not work.  I then installed the Leadtek - We make dreams a reality WinFast TV2000 XP Expert/WinFast DV2000 application .   The installation tried to install the Windows Media 7 codecs, but it failed on installing the Codecs.   The WinFast PVR application would not work, however the WinFast PVR2 application for the WinFast PVR3000 Deluxe video portion worked, but it would not play the audio since there were not audio codecs.   I put the LeadTek TV card back in the server, and I put Hauppauge TV card back in the primary Vista computer.   I then restored my Complete PC backup on the primary computer, so the changes were undone, and I was back to where I was before I tried the TV card exchange.   This took a bit of time.  The LeadTek card is a much better card with a higher screen resolution.   However, I can not afford their new Vista version Buy Leadtek WinFast PVR3000 Deluxe - Price Comparison - Canada and Premier Computer Canada and Canada Computers - Your Neighbourhood Computer Store and Service Centre - PC Systems and Hardware Components, Notebooks, Electronics, and more. .  It seems to be a better card than the Hauppauge card, but possibly their more expensive model is just as good, but the inexpensive Leadtek one Newegg.com - Leadtek TV2000XP/EXPERT TV/FM Tuner Card w/REMOTE - Retail  I have is very good in XP.  I do not know whether Vista Ready with the Leadtek card means it works with the Vista Media Player or not.   The Hauppauge Cards here Newegg.com - Search Results for Hauppauge PVR-150/500 are suppose to work with it.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 01/28/07:

Note:<888> 01/28/07 Sunday 1:10 A.M.:  The Onion Soup was most excellent.   It made about six medium servings, so after having a double serving, I have four servings left in the refrigerator.  Costco Vista .  Bill Gates To Face Jon Stewart - News by InformationWeek .  Microsoft Posts Record Quarterly Sales, But Profits Fall 28% On Vista Delay - News by InformationWeek .  British royals make first visit to Philadelphia - CNN.com .   BBC NEWS | UK | Crowds greet royal couple in US .  I went through my email.   I will now send out my weekly notes.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/27/07 Saturday 11:25 P.M.:  I woke up at 2 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 toasted English muffins with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   I went back to bed until 7 P.M..  I chatted with two relatives.   I surfed the internet.   I watched some television.   I picked up my mail, and I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made up a batch of http://mikelouisscott.com/onionsoup2.htm .   I will eat some shortly with a glass of ice tea, and I will refrigerate the rest in Rubbermaid containers.   CIO     

Note:<888> 01/27/07 Saturday 8:05 A.M.:  I had a technical problem after the last note.   I was replying to an email about Vista from  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/ , and they wanted me to paste in a picture of myself.   I tried, but the Outlook 2003 email would not let me paste in a picture.   I tried the repair option in Office 2003, but I lost my address book and old email, since I selected the wrong settings.   I sent out the email however.

Text follows:

After beta testing Microsoft Vista for a year and a half, my favorite feature of the new operating system

Is the complete PC Backup feature.  One can restore a first hard drive by inserting the Vista DVD and selecting

“repair” to restore the backup from a second hard drive, an external hard drive, or a DVD.  From a second

Hard drive to restore the first hard drive it takes about 10 minutes for a 50 gigabytes of files.   There is one

Catch in replacing hard drives, one needs to restore to a hard drive at least as large or larger, one can not restore

To the same size replacement hard drive if it is even a small bit smaller.   XP had this same problem.

A new install of Vista takes less than a half hour.  An upgrade can take many hours.

I am using the 32 bit system, so many of my older hardware drivers work if there are not Vista versions.

Vista’s graphical features are greatly enhanced, so with a 256 megabyte video card and two monitors, one has

Many features such as multimedia that one can work with.

The Media Center only seems to work with a few TV cards at this point, possibly Hauppauge is the best, but in

The U.K. with a different TV signal, it might not be the same.  My $15 Hauppauge WinTV Go TV card works with

Vista, and I play my digital cable TV box with it, but it does not work with the Media Center program.

Once Vista is released, more than likely more TV cards will work with Media Center.

The security seems adequate, but I am using the Vista Version of Norton Internet Security 7 for it for added protection.

I have used the final release of Vista since the first of December  2006 without much trouble.

I have over 300,000 IBM employees coming and going in this area out of Armonk, so possibly some of their associates

Have tried to make Vista seem vulnerable, but about the time of the earthquake in Taiwan, all of the hacking problems went

Away.  It was also the holiday period when the local students were on Holiday that I had hacking problems.

On my new install since December 1, 2006, when I did the Virus scan of Vista with Norton Internet Security 7 for

Vista, it showed the first folder or file as one in a Asian language, which my keyboard will not input, so either someone

Physically entered my apartment and hid it on my secure Vista computer system, or an Asian hacker placed it on my computer.

It does not show up as being there in the Vista file manager or DOS.

The other night, after doing a 50 gigabyte backup and rebooting the Vista system grew to 60 gigabytes and after about

A half hour it shrank back to 50 gigabytes. 

I have joked for the last six months before final release with the 32 bit version at 2.5 gigabytes on the DVD that

“For All I Know I Am Running A Chinese Phone Company”.

Beneath its user friendly interface, Vista obviously could be doing a lot more than meets the eye.

I am still using it on a simpler system:

http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm

http://geocities.com/mikelscott/computer.htm .

However, I did not upgrade to a 64 bit system, although Vista 64 bit is 3.5 gigabytes on DVD and is suppose to have

Better security, since there are not that many 64 bit programs, and a lot of hardware does not have 64 bit drivers.

From changing motherboards, it looks like in Vista unlike in XP, one can not change the motherboard to a similar motherboard

And use the Vista hard drive, and unless it is pretty much the same motherboard, one has to do a new Vista install.  In the States

It is hard to find older replacement parts, since the Asian suppliers are always trying to supply newer parts which means entirely new

Systems. 

The photo of myself is from a year and a half ago after three weeks of vacation in Florida, currently after marathon computer

Activity for as long as I can remember, I have very dark circles underneath my eyes, but I am very upbeat because after all of this

Time, Vista seems to be running JUST GREAT.

On Monday, I am invited to the Vista Launch in Manhattan at the Viacom Center, but alas I probably will not be attending, since it

Is the end of the month, and I have spent quite a bit money on hardware improvements over the last six months.

Good news towards the third weeks of February 2007, I have another Microsoft conference an hour away in north of New Haven, Connecticut,

And they promise us a free copy of Office 2007, but in Manhattan on Monday, Mr. Bill himself is suppose to there, so there will probably

Be a bit of Flash.  I do not know if I will miss out on Door Prizes.  

Since I once worked as clerk typist for CBS News and since Viacom now owns CBS news, I sometimes think I have been lost in

China for 33 years since they supposedly fired me at CBS.

Needless to say after 16 years of Personal Computers with 11 years of those on the internet at mostly a full time around the clock basis, I tend

To make this all seem too easy.   

Most of the earlier Betas for Vista worked quite fine, and it was just the drivers that were lacking.

In the States, tax payers can write off against taxes every three years computers and software, and since XP came out about 5 years

Ago, the sixth year of second three year period will not be until next year in 2008, so possibly the earlier sales of Vista might not be

What are expected.

On a minor note, I have only set food in Manhattan 20 miles west of me in 15 years, because 15 years ago I was mugged by someone with a 15 inch gravity knife

From Bermuda whom thought I was British and the individual’s family had lost all of their money in the Lloyd’s Underwriting when

Hurricane Andrew occurred in South Florida.   Thus I am not sure it is worth risking my personal security or friend’s security for a Microsoft door prize

This Monday, but if a check in the mail arrives on Monday, I might just go in.   I figure Mr. Bill will have adequate security at Viacom. 

I once was able to stand in the waiting line for Queen Elizabeth II at Bloomingdale’s Department store on the bicentennial on 1976, because

They thought I was British.

The friend of mine whose apartment I used in that period was:

http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm

http://geocities.com/mikelscott/fred.htm .

He spoke 12 different languages, and everyone seems to be looking at his web

Page and not much else on my web site.  Although he supposedly died around

www.biltmore.com , I have seen somebody five times out here that looked like him,

so possibly he is pursuing diplomatic duty somewhere else in the world.

Before I met Fred in 1973, I saw someone that looked like the Duke of Windsor entering the Waldorf Towers,

And having been to school in southern Europe that previous year, I think I would have recognized him although

He supposedly died before that.   Also Fred was being trained by Billy Baldwin that looked like and knew the Duke of Windsor.

Thus I guess I could say I am just a volunteer around English Speaking individuals in the States.

Vista it is my viewpoint by being a newer operating system will eventually save hundreds of millions and possibly

Billions of hours in people’s computer time world wide, since newer hardware more than likely will work with it better, and

It will become a standard like XP.   I basically use inexpensive common parts, so they usually seem to work with the

Microsoft operating systems.

Back in the Good Old Days before Microsoft, nothing ever worked with IBM OS/2, but they had some good parties.

I could go on forever, but this is probably 739 words like the $7.39 check I just got back from my insurance company

www.geico.com  for not driving too much but only about 3500 miles a year.

Thus my two web sites when working at

http://mikelouisscott.com/

http://geocities.com/mikelscott/

reflect my activity that I have pursued in the suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut

without going to Manhattan.

I still smoke Canadian cigarettes here in the states, and I heard a rumor that it is illegal to smoke in public in Manhattan,

So I am not sure I would want to test that by going into the City.

Yours Truly,

Michael Louis Scott

71 Vinci Drive

Apt. # 206

Greenwich, Connecticut

06830-2902

U.S.A.

1-203-531-6754

1-203-532-5474

mailto:mikescot@optonline.net

Thanks for writing in about Vista.

We'd like you to be one of our chosen respondents on Vista and hoped we could ask you to write some more about it - around 250 words.

What do you like about Vista? What do you not like?

How has your experience been with the OS?

How easy/hard has it been to move from XP to Vista.

Please could you send us a photo of yourself as well,

Darren Waters

Technology editor

BBC News Interactive

Tel: 0208 225 9370

Mobile: 07968 692796

http://news.bbc.co.uk/technology

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I then saved the few files that had changed in the last couple of days.   I then did a quick low level format of the C: drive.   I then restored my Vista Complete PC backup, and I restored the few saved files.   Thus I am back up and running normally again.   There was some strange computer action on my computer, when I logged onto www.liveduvalstreet.comm? that might have changed my computer last night, and possibly with military and IBM types down in Key West, they have put some sort of script on their server to mess up computers.   I have seen the same thing happen with the Greenwich Time and other news media servers, but more than likely the server operators do not know about it, until they do better security checks.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I lost yesterday's email when I restored the backup, but I do not think there was too much in it.   Have a good morning, and stay warm.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/27/07 Saturday 3:25 A.M.:  I am making up a batch of Formula One http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .   For the ten bags of orange pekoe tea, instead of using Lipton, I am now using Tetley British Blend tea.  If Chuck King happens to be around, tell him they still sell beer at the Port Chester Beer Distributor across the street from the Life Saver Factory that is now a inexpensive condominium complex in Port Chester, New York.   I use to know Michael Henry who lived there, and he worked for Elizabeth Arden, but I have not seen him around recently.   He is a nephew of Cardinal Spellman, and he use to teach sailing in Kennebunkport, Maine.   Alas, so many people travel anymore, it is hard to tell where everyone is anymore.   I suppose with the colder weather now, they are probably visiting places where it is warmer.  I am not sure if the British still actually live in England anymore.   I think there might be quite a few British seaman living on West 23rd street in Manhattan at the large London Terrace Apartment Complex that takes up a large City block.   If I am still an employee of CBS, what I am suppose to tell them, like I heard Connie Chung once say about a reporter that disappeared and was lost in China for 7 years, what am I suppose to say, I was lost in America for 33 years.   Well, I will now go through my email.  On the Greenwich Country Club, I read in the Greenwich Time Greenwich, Connecticut, Local News, Jobs, Real Estate | Greenwich Time back around 1974, when the Bush family www.whitehouse.gov were just beginning to get popular after Prisoner Number 41 got back from being the first U.S. ambassador to China, and I saw his mother speak at the Greenwich Country Club after having a hamburger at the mixed grill one evening that his older brother Prescott Bush was building an exact duplicate of the Greenwich Country Club in China.  I got to thinking about that over the years, and technically 1.2 billion Chinese could actually duplicate Greenwich, Connecticut and make it look the same, and we all could be in Greenwich, China, but it is not as cold here as in the U.S.A. where it frequently would go below zero degrees Fahrenheit, but in the U.S.A. they always seemed to have plenty of heat.  Well anyway, there is a good way to see if we are still in Greenwich, Connecticut U.S.A..   There use to be a pub on Anderson Hill Road near where the State University of New York and www.pepsi.com is now located called the Hilltop.  Back in the old days of the mid 1960s, they use to play polo nearby, and after the polo matches, the beer drinkers would carve their names in the walls and the tables.   That might be hard for the Chinese to duplicate.  For all I know we have always been in Greenwich, China, and because we spoke English, they told us that we were in Connecticut.   There was once a rumor that Wallace Simpson was the daughter of a U.S. Navy officer in China, so perhaps she moved her family back to China, since it was cheaper to live there.   Of course since she was around British Royalty, possibly she was Chinese Royalty, and if she were actually the Empress of China, I would not want to say anything to offend 1.2 billion Chinese, since they seem to have a lot to do with computer technology, but for all I know she is just a correspondent for the Time Life publications started by the Luce family whom were Christian missionaries in China.  From what I know Manhattan might not even be 22 miles west of me, but we get their media via satellite.  I have not been on the train in a long time, and I am not sure it even still runs back and forth to Manhattan, for all I know it just makes local stops on a short run in the suburbs.   After 911, there are so many people hiding out and being more private, I am not sure what is really going on.  I have two friends and a relative in Manhattan, so I assume it is still pretty much the same, but the television pictures that I see of it in the local news, it looks substantially less busy than I use to recall it being, so more than likely most people in the surrounding area are no longer visiting it, since it is suppose to be a terrorist target.   Of course in the suburbs, you have a better chance of having an automobile accident at rush hour, so I tend to move around when it is less busy.   CIO    

Note:<888> 01/27/07 Saturday 1:00 A.M.:   I woke up at 2 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   I chatted with two relatives.   I went back to bed until 4 P.M..  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.   I noticed a police car by the dumpster, but there was no policeman around.   I looked around the building, but there was no sign of police activity, so maybe it was a social call.  I chatted with some neighbors.   I watered the plants, and I put out more white vinegar in the scent bowl in the living room.   Earlier I chatted with a friend about going into the Microsoft Launch of Vista on Monday at 3:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M..  Currently I only have about $25 at the end of the month, so I really can not afford to take the train into Manhattan even if I got an off peak or half fare disabled rate.   I later chatted with a computer person at the Greenwich Library, and he mentioned they might give some of the 150 Vista beta testers invited some sort of free gifts, and possibly I might get some more money on Monday, so I might still go in, so I have not yet cancelled my invitation.   However, there is another problem, and the presentation is located at 1515 Broadway (The 1 Astor Plaza) , and not that I have anything against the Astors whom really developed the Microsoft territory of Seattle, Washington, but if it were in a ground floor or mezzanine conference room, I might attend, but every one whom knows me, knows that I am afraid of heights, and if it were in a upper level story of the building, I would probably be afraid to attend  particularly after "911" .   However, I think Viacom currently owns www.cbs.com , so I might see some old associates from CBS, but I do not think they would remember a Clerk Typist from 1973 during Watergate.   Thus if I spent all of the money to go into Manhattan to the Times Square area, I might not be willing to attend the Microsoft Vista launch, if it were on one of the upper levels of the building.   I once did attend New Years Eve in Time Square, and I viewed it from a second story theatre window.  I do live on a second story floor here, and I occasionally visit the second floor of the Greenwich Library, and my regular Thursday appointment is on the second floor of the building, but I am basically a member of the flat earth society, so I will have to think about it some more.  I opened a 18 ounce can of Progresso New England Clam chowder, and I put it in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, and I heated it on one vegetable cycle, and then I put it in a large Cobalt Blue soup bowl that I have, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I bought the two 12 ounce Cobalt blue soup bowls for $5 each at the Rockefeller gift shop better known as the Merry Go Round Mews Thrift Shop.   Alas nobody pays any attention to them anymore, since they do not have the type of new money that the newer money people claim to have.  My viewpoint is that most of these new money people circulate around here out of the Wilton and Danbury, Connecticut area, and they get cheap oil and fuel out of some oil tanker in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and they only number about 50,000 drivers compared to the New York City area population of about 40 million people within a hundred mile radius, so it is hard to tell what the real story is.   I next showered, and I cleaned up.   I went out, and I went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with a reference librarian and the library computer engineer.   I then went by CVS, and they were out of the five packs of BIC lighters.   I then went by the Putnam Trust Bank of New York ATM machine on Greenwich Avenue, and I deposited the $7.39 refund check that I got back from www.geico.com for only averaging driving 3,500 miles a year.   I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.    I chatted with a patron outside of the Sun Down Saloon.   I stopped by the Greenwich Post Office to warm up.   I noticed they have Avery labels on display in the lobby that anyone could steal, so I guess Greenwich, Connecticut people and their patrons are suppose to be honest.  They took down all of the vintage wanted posters off the post office bulletin board.  Starbucks was not very busy.   I walked up to the top of Greenwich Avenue, and then I returned.   I found 2 one dollar bills on the sidewalk just before the Gingerman restaurant.   I think the also have an Italian restaurant upstairs where local Mafia figures hang out.   I have seen members of the Gotti family coming and going from the restaurant after Maneros closed, where I once saw John Gotti.   Well they have to eat too.  I then sat out for a while.   I then drove down by the waterfront.   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I chatted with one of their employees whom had been in Nantucket recently, and he told me the Stop and Shop had taken over the Finast, and they had a house for their employees in Nantucket, since nobody can afford to live there anymore.   I bought a five back of BIC lighters for $4.99 and .30 tax for $5.29 total.   They are dark green, baby blue, bright red, pink, and medium purple.   I then returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor using a cell phone in the car in the parking lot, and I recommended that he should get a cell phone cigarette adapter for his car to use in cold weather in case the cell phone battery does not work in cold weather.   Currently, it is suppose to be 16 degrees Fahrenheit in Greenwich, Connecticut, but my weather station says it is 24.4 degrees Fahrenheit next to my apartment window, so there is possibly a bit of heat loss near the windows.   My Volvo said it was 14 degrees Fahrenheit when I came home.   I dressed warmly when I went out.  I was told a neighbor had been taken away in an ambulance, so perhaps the cold temperature in the building is effecting my neighbors.  One of my new neighbors was setting the temperature at 70 degrees Fahrenheit, so it would be about 64 degrees in that apartment.   The thermostats are not accurate in this building, but that does not effect what one pays for electricity.   I have plenty of temperature indicators in the apartment.   Currently inside the apartment, it is 73 degrees Fahrenheit, but I am sure that I am paying a bit more for it.   Also the electricity rates are suppose to go up another 20% this month.   I will wait to see what the bill is this month to see if I can afford to maintain the current temperature level.   It is not a big apartment about 450 square feet with, and I have the living room thermostat set at 80 degrees Fahrenheit with the actual temperature at 73 degrees Fahrenheit, and the bedroom thermostat at 70 degrees Fahrenheit with the actual temperature about 62 degrees Fahrenheit, and I do not turn on the bathroom heater.  I ate four 2.5 inch by .25 inch by .75 inch slices of www.cabotcheese.com Vermont extra sharp cheddar.   I will now make the same dinner as last night.   Stay warm.   If somebody needs to know what if anything actually going on in this area, the Greenwich Country Club http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/Greenwich-Country-Club.jpg usually has somebody on duty at their switchboard 24 hours a day seven days a week, but they never tell one anything.   Their telephone number is easy to remember at 1-203-869-1000.   Since Greenwich, Connecticut is pretty much as everyone in the know knows not a Rockefeller town, but a Vanderbilt town as in www.biltmore.com , basically the Greenwich Country Club is the local railroad house, but it ain't cheap.  CIO

Note:<888> 01/26/07 Friday 4:25 A.M.:   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I ate three pieces of www.cabotcheese.com Vermont Seriously Sharp cheddar cheese about .25 inches by 2.5 inches by .75 inches.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/26/07 Friday 4:15 A.M.:   I have been working with the Vista Server beta one on the Epox server.   I have able to get its IIS server working.   However, I could not get the FTP server to work properly where I could transfer files from the primary computer to the Epox Vista server beta one.   Possibly since it is beta one, there are still limitations.   I booted it back to XP with the IIS server.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/26/07 Friday 12:15 A.M.:  I made a 50% regular and 50% decaffeinated cup of coffee which I drank with some splenda and milk.  The World's Most Expensive Home - Forbes.com .  Microsoft to launch Vista with human billboard - USATODAY.com .  Netflix To Stream Live Movies For Free - Forbes.com .  2007 Joint Assembly: Acapulco, Mexico - 22-25 May 2007 .  Microsoft May Have Mistakenly Pegged Half A Million As Pirates - Technology News by TechWeb .  IBM TV .  Windows Vista: The Experience .  Windows Marketplace: Top Sellers .  I finished going through my email.  CIO  

Note:<888> 01/25/07 Thursday 10:40 P.M.:   I chatted with a relative.   I chatted with the Key West Hotel Resorts & Florida Keys Beach Accommodations - Casa Marina Resort Key West , and they told me it is busy down there in the southern most part of the United States of America.   I wonder why Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground and  Key West, Florida USA, Scott's Internet Hotlist .  Live Duval Street Web Cam in Key West, Florida :: Sloppy Joe's Bar :: .  I guess the tourists down there drink a bit.   Remember in Key West, Florida, you are somewhat south of the Mason Dixon line, so the customs are different.   Of course around here up north recently, it is like "Siberia Sam's Social Club".   Of course since President Bush www.whitehouse.gov is still President of the United States of America, and as Commander and Chief, he is still in charge of the U.S. Military, so he technically could transfer any of those democratic military types down there elsewhere if you get my drift.   CIO     

Note:<888> 01/25/07 Thursday 9:05 P.M.:  I made up a batch of Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe, and I also added a beef bullion cube and a teaspoon of Kikkoman soy sauce and dashes of Old Bay Seasoning.  I put about 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli crowns in a Revere pot with steamer tray and an inch of water and lid, and I steamed them for 15 minutes on medium high electric burner heat.  For the last 10 minutes I put a few tablespoons of olive oil in a 10 inch stick proof frying pan with a few pads of margarine, and I heated it medium high electric burner heat.   I then put in an eight ounce hamburger in the frying pan and a medium large onion peeled and sliced into 1/4 inch thick slices, and I seasoned the burger and onions on both sides with garlic pepper, ground black pepper, and chicken and meat seasoning, and I cooked them on medium to medium high electric burner heat flipping them frequently for about 4 minutes a side, and for the last two minutes, I put on a couple of teaspoons of Kikkoman soy sauce and on top of the burger I put six 5/8th inch by 2.5 inch by 1/8th inch thick slices of www.cabotcheese.com  Vermont seriously extra sharp cheddar cheese, and I put a lid on, and I steamed the cheese for a couple of minutes.   I then put the vegetables in a bowl with a little bit of olive oil on them.   I put the burger on a dinner plate with the sautéed onions over them, and I put half the rice on the dinner plate and the other half in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note:<888> 01/25/07 Thursday 7:50 P.M.:  They posted my note at BBC NEWS | Technology | Battle of the operating systems .   CIO

Note:<888> 01/25/07 Thursday 7:40 P.M.:  This morning when I made the hamburgers, I was only able to get 9 eight ounce hamburgers out of the top round Cab roast after I trimmed it.   I froze six, and I have 3 fresh ones.  I woke up today at noon.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.   I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went out, and I went downtown.   I chatted with a regular walker.   I toured the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop.   I then went to my usual 3 P.M. appointment.   I will not have it during the month of February.   I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a white Braun 10 cup automatic drip coffee maker like the black one that I already have.  It came with a Brita water filter in it, and a spare one, all for $5.   Most everything at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop is 50% off.   I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I stopped by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue.   I went by CVS.   I chatted with a visiting photographer from Argentina.   After my walk, I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.   I then drove down by the waterfront.   I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I returned the large book on golf courses in Ireland and Scotland.  I read PC Magazine.   I then by the Stop and Shop.   I bought a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, a bunch of broccoli at $1.49 a pound for $1.58, and a 1.75 quart container of Turkey Hill banana split ice cream for $2.99 for $7.56 total.  I then returned home, and I picked up my mail.   I put the new white Braun coffee machine on the kitchen counter along side of the black one.   I moved the Cuisine Art to the bookcase, and I put its top on the floor in front of the bookcase.   I thus have more coffee brewing capacity.   I have a lot of coffee cups on the wire rack at the bedroom entrance.   Once I use up the opened coffee beans in the grinders, I still have a 39 ounce bag of Columbian and a 39 ounce bag of Decaffeinated coffee beans, so when I open them, I will probably mix them together to make a milder blend of coffee.   I also have espresso beans and instant coffee and plenty of powder milk and sweetener.   I refilled the glade plug-in refill in the kitchen with a 60% of English leather cologne and a 40% mixture of 70% isopropyl alcohol, so it should smell a little bit better in the apartment.    CIO

Note:<888> 01/25/07 Thursday 4:40 A.M.:   I also did a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I copied the server folder from the Epox server to the primary computer, and I also placed them on both drives and the Bytecc external hard drive.   I ate two scoops of butter pecan ice cream.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/24/07 Wednesday 11:35 P.M.:   I went out after the last message.   I drove up Lake Avenue to the top and left on Close Road and then down Round Hill Road and down Lake Avenue to the Greenwich Library.   I briefed the staff on Microsoft Vista.   I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I used the ATM machine at the Greenwich Avenue branch of Putnam Trust Bank of New York.   I noticed on my drive in back country, there was a dead raccoon up Lake Avenue between North Maple and Clapboard Ridge Road, about one third of the way north.   I sat out downtown for a while.   There was a party at Richard's for their customers.   I then drove down by the waterfront.   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a top round cab roast at $3.99 a pound for $14.52 total.   I then returned home.   I will now do a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the Bytecc external hard drive.   While doing that I will make 10 eight ounce hamburgers out of the roast by cutting it into two inch cubes and putting it through the CuisineArt and weight it with the kitchen scale to 8 ounce amounts and forming it into about one inch thick by about 5 inch diameter hamburgers.   I will put two each in a ziplock bag with another one over it with the air squeezed out of both, and I will freeze six and keep four in a flat Rubbermaid container for future eating.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/24/07 Wednesday 6:50 P.M.:  I made and ate the same dinner as the last week.   That is the last of the boneless breasts of chicken, but I have plenty of food http://mikelouisscott.com/inventory.htm .   Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  The Greenwich, Connecticut crowd in Vero Beach, Florida news TCPalm .  What is happening tonight NexSat, NRL/NPOESS Next-Generation Weather Satellite Demonstration Project .   A good place to put your money if you happen to have any Northern Trust Corporation .  Worried about security GlobalSecurity.org - Reliable Security Information .  Interested in reading a book Books - Best-Seller Lists - New York Times .   I will now shut down the primary computer.   I will make my bed, and I will shower and clean up.   I will then go out, and I will take a drive to charge up my car battery up Lake Avenue to the top and left on Close Road and back down Round Hill Road to Lake Avenue, and if it is still opened, I will stop by the Greenwich Library Welcome to Greenwich Library! before closing.   I do not think I will bother taking a walk, since it is winter out.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/24/07 Wednesday 5:35 P.M.:  I installed the latest Nvidia Vista driver for my Nvidia card NVIDIA Drivers , so the card in Vista now recognizes my television monitor which is connected to the Nvidia card, so I can watch WebTV http://wwitv.com/portal.htm with the Vista Windows Media on my larger Sony television, when I use the Nvidia program to switch from the second monitor to the television.  I can also watch the desktop on the television, since it can be mirrored to be viewed on the monitor.  I have the sound input to the television connected to the television if one plugs in the lead cable into the primary computer speaker by the printer stand, but the sound is not really loud enough, and it is better to use the computer speakers.   The video input into the TV is connected to the Nvidia video card, and one uses the Nvidia program to select the left primary analog monitor and the TV in Clone mode, so the monitor is mirrored by the television.   The Nvidia video cards have the clone mode feature which the ATI video cards do not the last time I checked.  One can set up an ATI video card with a TV as a second monitor. I connected up the remote mouse to the primary Vista computer, and I put four new AAA batteries in it.   I have it with the other remotes on the floor by the recliner underneath the brass and glass coffee table.  Thus the primary server is now not connected to the Sony televison.  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage, and I picked up my mail.  I will now do another Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  CIO

Note:<888> 01/24/07 Wednesday 2:10 P.M.:  I was awake at 8 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   While I was asleep, I transferred the old XP ASR backup file about 50 gigabytes from the primary computer to the server through the network.   Thus I have more room on the primary computer D: drive.   The server has a 320 gigabyte hard drive.   I just save it for backup purposes.   I then defragmented the hard drives on the primary computer.    I went back to bed until now, while I was doing that.   Discover AOL: Vista Information .  I will now install the AOL Vista version replacing the beta.     CIO    

Note:<888> 01/24/07 Wednesday 12:45 A.M.:  I ate 2/3rds of a tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips.    I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/24/07 Wednesday 12:05 A.M.:  I rearranged some pictures.  I took the picture of the Audubon print out of its frame at the bedroom entrance, and I put it in the frame over the Darmouth College Baker Library picture hanging to the left of the bed.  Underneath the Audubon print was a map of the North Countries including part of Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, part of Russia, and Denmark, and part of Poland the Baltic states.   I hung that on the back of the apartment entrance door, and I moved the print of the Northern Pacific Railroad to where the Audubon print was at the bedroom entrance.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/23/07 Tuesday 10:50 P.M.:  I ate two scoops of coffee ice cream.   I chatted with a relative.   I watched President Bush's State of the Union Address www.whitehouse.gov , which was very encouraging.     My main reason for never visiting Manhattan besides my financial limitations, is that although I live a 100 yards from the New York - Connecticut border, my Connecticut Medicaid is only good in Connecticut, so if I had an accident in the busy city of Manhattan, I would not be covered, where as in Connecticut I am covered.   For most of the time I lived in Manhattan, I was covered by my family's Blue Cross Blue Shield plan, and just to be on the safe side, I spent a lot of time at a pub across the street from the Blue Cross Blue Shield headquarters when networking with people and also at pubs in hospital districts.   However, of course I took in all of the other New York activity as well.   However, I find I get more important work done out here than I feel I was able to do in Manhattan, because in Manhattan one spends a lot of time networking, and one does not get as much work done.  Frequently one forgets some of those pubs had medical people including personnel from www.pfizer.com which has offices on East 42nd street and production facilities in Brooklyn, New York and New London, Connecticut.   However, since I was frequently moving around in and out of the city from the Fairfield County or Nassau County areas, particularly during the late night and early morning hours, and since nobody notices anyone in the crowds in Manhattan, I do not think anyone would take much notice of me in the city, and I would just appear to be another country pumpkin on a daily excursion.   Most of the people I seem to have once known in Manhattan seemed to have moved to New Jersey which is a bit warmer, and quite frankly I do not know my way around New Jersey too well.   The last time I was in New Jersey I recall was about six years ago, when I dropped a friend http://mikelouisscott.com/chris2000.jpg off at Newark Airport for his first airplane flight which as I recall was to Datona Beach, Florida on Continental, before he flew on LTU from Daytona Beach, Florida to Cologne, Germany to visit his girl friend, so I have seen a lot of people from Florida and Germany.  Well anyway the computers seem to be running better with all of the extra help.   I will now do some regular computer work.  My primary computer system http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm running the Vista Ultimate Edition with Norton Internet Security 7 for Vista seems to be running just fine.  I do not feel like investing in a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 card Newegg.com - Search Results for Hauppauge PVR-150/500 until I have the funds and a Vista version is available.    There is no rush on it.   CIO      

Note:<888> 01/23/07 Tuesday 8:40 P.M.:   CRN Security 'Storm' Trojan Hits 1.6 Million PCs; Vista May Be Vulnerable .  Windows Vista Microsoft To Offer 'Simpler' Antivirus Service For Windows Vista, And Discounts For Testers  .  Windows Vista drives memory chip surge .  Room with a view: CNET Labs tests the first Vista systems .  Monthly Microsoft Patch Hides Tricky IE 7 Download .   I responded to an invitation to the Microsoft Vista Launch event on January 29, 2007 from 3:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. in Times Square Manhattan at 1515 Broadway at West 44th Street, New York, New York.   Maybe I should bring my Frank Sinatra CD of "I Love New York".   The weather is suppose to be sunny that day, and with my State of Connecticut Medicaid ID, I think I can get half priced disabled fare on the train into Manhattan for about $10, if I have that much money left at the end of the month.   I did not respond in time early enough for the luncheon, but I usually do not eat that much except two meals a day and snacks.   I was thinking at the XP launch event I attended in Stamford, Connecticut about 5 years ago, they gave us Microsoft XP tee shirts that I still have, but alas in New York, they should give up heavy extra large florescent orange sweat shirts with the Windows Vista logo on them.   With all of the traffic at night in Manhattan, one should not wear dark clothing.   One is better off wearing bright or light clothing.   I will wait until the last minute to see if I will actually attend, depending on other factors like whether Prince Charles is still in the area or not.  I obviously know where the British consulate use to be in Manhattan on Third Avenue next to Fred's package store http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm and across the street from Fred's bank.   I think it was at around 51st street and 3rd Avenue on the east side of the street.   They usually fly the British Union Jack flag, so it is easy to recognize.   However, in Manhattan, I would still be good at walking around after all of these years of walking on Greenwich Avenue, however one usually needs a little bit of mugging money to navigate around the city.  Trust me there is nothing in Manhattan, I have not dealt with on Greenwich Avenue in 24 years.  877Chicago - Winter Delights - TAKE A BREAK IN CHICAGO .   I use to wear one of these in Manhattan L.L.Bean: Search Results Field Coat like this Original Field Coat with Wool/Nylon Liner: Coats at L.L.Bean .  I do not have one now, but I have plenty of other warm winter clothes.   I also have a fairly new pair of these in size 9.5 medium L.L.Bean: L.L.Bean Boots .  Inspired by the Past, Built for the Future .  http://www.download.com/QuickBooks-Simple-Start-Free-Starter-Edition/3000-2066_4-10609030.html?tag=lst-0-1?tag=ts_newsletter1 .  » Genuine Advantage: Can Microsoft recast itself as protector, not punisher? | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com .  Innovate on Windows Vista .  I will watch President Bush's www.whitehouse.gov State of the Union message at 9 P.M. .   I went through my email.  CIO

Note:<888> 01/23/07 Tuesday 3:50 P.M.:  For families with younger children whom do not spend too much time on the computers, this is the best deal on a 20 inch LCD Westinghouse www.westinghouse.com television for $299.99 less $100 mail in rebate for $199.99 total Newegg.com - Westinghouse LTV-20V4 Silver 20" 25ms LCD TV - Retail and $19.99 shipping.   Of course some of us whom pay for www.cablevision.com unfortunately keep busy at other matters, so I do not always have the time to watch the television.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will rest a bit.  CIO  

Note:<888> 01/23/07 Tuesday 3:15 P.M.:   I made and ate the same meal as yesterday.  I chatted with the building custodian.   Apparently our neighbor pasted away this past Saturday, and I saw one of her red haired relatives visiting sometime last week, maybe that was the day.  

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Note:<888> 01/23/07 Tuesday 1:00 P.M.:  I chatted with some relatives, friends, and associates about the fact that Vista and Norton Internet Security 7.0 for Vista are now available.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/23/07 Tuesday 9:45 A.M.:  I finished the backups.   I chatted with a friend.   Newegg.com - Microsoft Windows Vista 32-Bit Ultimate Single Pack DVD - OEM $199.99 free shipping .

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OEM, means "Office Equipment Manufacturer" which means if you buy it cheaper that way, I do not think you get tech support.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/23/07 Tuesday 7:35 A.M.:   I installed Norton Internet Security 7 for Vista.   I did a full system scan with it.   I rested while the full system scan was being performed.   I will now perform a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I will then do one from the first hard drive to the Bytecc external hard drive.  I rested from about 3 A.M. to 6  A.M..  CIO

Note:<888> 01/22/07 Monday 11:45 P.M.:  I microwaved and ate a 18 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder, which I ate with a glass of ice tea.    Windows Vista ™ Information Center - Symantec Corp. Norton Internet Security 7 for Vista Compatability Updates seems to be available.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/22/07 Monday 10:20 P.M.:  I was awake at 11 A.M. this morning.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I checked my mail.  I was told that one of my long time elderly neighbors had passed away.   I think the neighbor just down the hall had been here for about 15 years, so she had a long stay here, since she was elderly when she moved in.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went out, and I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.   I then went to my 4 P.M. appointment, but I had been called in the morning, so I did not remember it was cancelled.   I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought an ACE's High scratch card for a dollar, but I did not win.   As usual I toured the Greenwich Train station.   I stopped by the Greenwich Arts and Senior Citizen Center.   I used the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue.   I went by CVS, and I bought for half price a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle Pizza Slice Potato Chips for .90.   I stood out in front of U.S. Trust and the Morgan Stanley Company for a while, and I ate them at the Pickwick Plaza.   I waited for about a half hour to chat with a customer outside the Chase Bank, but the customer seemed to be busy, or possibly did not want to chat in the cold.   The customer was one of the regular people I chat with at night.   I then completed my walk of Greenwich Avenue, so I was out walking around for about two hours.   I then drove down by the waterfront.   I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I briefed two of the reference librarians.   I then returned home.   I ate two scoops of coffee ice cream.  I watched a TV show about Mountain Climbing in Peru.   I chatted with a relative whom told me it was 85 degrees Fahrenheit in Vero Beach, Florida today.   I will now do a bit of regular computer work.   CIO    

Note:<888> 01/22/07 Monday 5:25 A.M.:  Of course mules are also used for mining in the old days, such as in 20 mule team Borax, if you ever heard of the product.   Now you know why the cows come home at night.   I have a 4 P.M. appointment today, so I will shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   BBC NEWS | Europe | French homeless campaigner dies .   BBC NEWS | Europe | 'Baby-smugglers' in French trial .  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | White beetle dazzles scientists .   BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Your PCs forecast climate future .  BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | New IT helps orchestra's US tour .   BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | New IT helps orchestra's US tour .  CIO

Note:<888> 01/22/07 Monday 4:30 A.M.:  There is suppose to be a lot of food in the Midwest of the United States of America, but for there to be a lot of food there, one first has to "Work the Fields", if you get my drift.  I suppose with the energy depleted America, there are probably some people turning back to using mules to plow and maintain their fields, thus one should not eat the Mule or stand behind it.   Since I travel so little outside this area, there is not much first hand information for me about what is going on outside of this area.   For all I know at after the electronics conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, Bill Gates is standing on the side of the road with a sign that says "Software for Gas".   It is like the other one that I saw recently that said "Blog for Food".   Since a lot of my relatives are still in Agribusiness, I manage to get by on a simpler income with simple computer systems.   For all I know Bill Gates is in the same boat, and he is one of "Granny Smith's" grandsons.   I think Granny Smith apples come from Washington State.    Thus since the Roosevelt family of Hyde Park, New York were Apple Farmers, more than likely one Apple Farmer would know another apple farmer in this area.  I do know we have some awfully nice looking apples in our grocery stores, but I never buy them, since they cost about a dollar apiece.  In the good old days, when life was cheaper in America, and I earned $200 a week when gasoline was 19 cents a gallon and fuel oil was 12 cents a gallon, one of the most popular products that was inexpensive was White House Apple Sauce, which seemed to have been replaced by Mott's Apple Sauce.    The two jars of Mott's Apple Sauce I have in my apartment I think are over a year old, so if one ate them, they might be fermented, and give one the Runs, but they might be interesting to use in some sort of fruit punch.   One could put grape juice, orange juice, sparkling water, and apple sauce together, but I think all of my mixers are over five years old, so I do not know if they have any fizz or not.   CIO   

Note:<888> 01/22/07 Monday 4:10 A.M.:  It is the nature of the Rockefeller's current Swiss Dairy business that it might be more expensive than fighting Arabs, since Mountain Lions, Panthers, and Cougars like to eat Swiss Dairy cows, and the more Swiss Dairy cows there are around, the more Mountain Lions and other big cats there will be around.   I think a simpler solution was developed by the Swiss when they put a Swiss bell with collar around each dairy cow better known as a "Cow Bell", and it seems the bells from the dairy heard would scare away the big cats, but I am not sure about it, but one could look into it.  Generally there are effective old ways of doing things that are frequently cheaper than some modern technology, but you would have to chat with some Old Guard types about it, where ever they are hiding out.  With birds much is the same, as any hunter knows, when the birds fly away, it means the predator is around.  CIO 

Note:<888> 01/22/07 Monday 2:05 A.M.:  Real Wood Keyboard and Optical Mouse Set (USB) .  Need to lose weight Hiking Vacations and Walking Adventures - Cross Country International, Corp. .  I think some countries probably have some dangerous things, you may not know about, so you would have to hire an experienced guide if you are walking in the  wilderness.    I will now do a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to second hard drive.   CIO    

Note:<888> 01/22/07 Monday 1:45 A.M.:   I did some thinking.   I will now go through the email, for the last few days.   There should not be too much email over the weekend, since the internet news is not too busy on weekends, when people have family affairs to take care of.   By today's current prices, a package of generic Canadian cigarettes costs 8.5 English muffins if you do the math.  CIO 

Note:<888> 01/22/07 Sunday 12:20 A.M.:   Microsoft to make Vista available online - CNN.com .

Note:<888> 01/21/07 Sunday 10:45 P.M.:  I was awake about 2 P.M. today.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  Yesterday, I put up the big flags in the hallway.   One the left bookcase, I put up the Saudi Arabian flag, the U.S.A. Air Force flag, the Swedish flag, and the Netherlands flag on top.   On the right bookcase, I put up the U.S.A. flag, the Scotland Cross of St. Andrews flag, and the Great Britain British Union Jack on top.   Thus without spending money, I now have a Dutch flag flying.   However, the books and reference material and bric a brac and entertainment glasses are not as easily accessed.  I do not drink liquor, but I have about 6 ounces of Jack Daniels and about 20 ounce of Smirnoff Vodka in the bar glass area along with a couple of bottles wine.   I took most of the liquor up to the family house in Kennebunkport, Maine this past summer where they occasionally do a bit of entertaining amongst the "Old Guard" during summer holidays.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I brought along the new jump start system to test it, but the car started right up, so I was not able to test it.   I went by the Greenwich Library, and I looked at the bird print exhibit.   If you know your birds it is a very interesting exhibit, but I played dumb and talked about wild cats.  I then went for a drive up Lake Avenue to a left on Close Road and then down Round Hill Road.   Just south of Pecksland Road on the left or north side of the road there was what appeared to be road kill or a dead deer.   I think legally it is on the http://mikelouisscott.com/agakhan01.jpg , Aga Khan's property, so if he gets around to picking it up, his skinny wife will have a little bit more food to feed him.  Venison or deer meat is very commonly eaten amongst the aristocrats of Europe, since they have vast forest preservers.   Thus it would be my viewpoint it is the Aga Khan's deer, but I am not exactly sure where his property line ends and starts.  It is off the road, so it is Not Department of Public Works property.  I then continued to the bottom of Round Hill Road and down Lake Avenue and I went left at the Greenwich Library, and I went down Greenwich Avenue.   I told the Greenwich Police about the deer, and they told me some people would not eat it because when a deer is hit by a car, it breaks it blatter and releases urine.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I viewed the Bentley show room, where they have a couple of new grey Bentley convertibles.   One is very sporty.  I then walked back up Greenwich Avenue, and I stopped by the Post Office, and I used the bathroom at Starbucks.   I chatted about geo thermal energy with a European engineer that I have chatted with before.   I chatted with a laptop user from Portugal.   I then checked out the Senior and the Arts center which had a concert going on.   I then continued my walk up Greenwich Avenue to CVS.  I bought two 12 packs of English muffins for $1.99 each 12 pack.  I then complete my walk.   I then sat out for a while, and I walked a little way down Greenwich Avenue and back.  I then drove by the waterfront, and I then went to the Stop and Shop, and I bought four 18 ounce containers of Quaker Old Fashioned oats for $1.50, a 5 pound bag of onions for $2.79, and fresh Chiquita bananas for .54 a pound for $15.06 total.  I then returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor.   I reconnected the new jump start system, so it stays charging all of the time.  I chatted with a relative whom would know how to cook venison, but I am not sure the Aga Khan got the message about his deer.   I will now eat the same meal as the last couple of days.   CIO      

Note:<888> 01/21/07 Sunday 5:25 A.M.:  I will now go to bed.   Have a good day.   CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 01/21/07:

Note:<888> 01/21/07 Sunday 4:00 A.M.:  I think this might be Frederick Von Mierers today http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm , http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42430000/jpg/_42430919_nepal4.jpg linked from BBC NEWS | In Pictures | Nepal images raise money for charity .    I remember one of his closest friends was Bill Barker one of the first American Solders into enter Rome, Italy at the end of hostilities during World War II, and I remember Bill owned a discothèque in Katmandu, Nepal, so more than likely Fred went there when he ran out of money.   He sort of looks like the Wild Man from Borneo of Moses.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/21/07 Sunday 3:50 A.M.:  Welcome to the 21 Club, New York City Restaurant, NYC, in Midtown Manhattan, one of the most famous and most romantic restaurants in New York City. Club 21/New York Wedding Reception/best restaurant in New York , another thing the Kennedy family acquired in America in their pursuit to avoid the Irish Potato famine which brought them here.   Unfortunately they never figured out they had other relative who arrived here at least 300 years before they did, and their other relatives were constantly amused by the way, the kept bringing over newer and improved imported items via their prosperous ship building business in Boston.   Unfortunately since they were illiterate then they did not seem to know anything about the United States legal system other than certain politicians seem to facilitate matters as it related to their business.   Such well known politicians as FDR use to be the bartender at Hyde Park for his guests during prohibition, and the highest liquor consumption per capita in America is in Washington D.C. where there is no tax on the product, and a lot of people seem to have some sort of immunity.  Currently the United States Congress is only working two days a week, which is all they seem to have time for after the social circuit.  I suppose Doris Duke's dinner parties are the top ticket in town, and more than likely the movers and shakers are dividing up the country surrounded by all of that Russian art that she bought with her cigarette money.   On the home front in the more modest republican surroundings in Greenwich, Connecticut I had an uneventful day.   I woke up at 10 A.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   I chatted with a relative.   I did two loads of laundry.   I put clean linens on the bed.   I chatted and left messages with a number of associates.   Frequently when I am less busy on the computer, I had time to sort out other matters.   I noticed a representative of one of the largest whisky exporters in the world The Prince of Wales  is showing up for a spot inspection on the spur of the moment to inspect the business Prince cancels holiday in eco-row - CNN.com .   Once when I chatted with the Captain of the Queen Elizabeth II down in Port Everglades back in 1976, he told me only two families in America that could afford to travel in the Royal First Class suite, and that was the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, so I took his word for it, and I never tried to go to England.   Well look at it this way, it is a lot warmer in Key West, Florida trying to speak French than it would be trying make a living in England as a farmer.   I checked with a member, and from a historical side of both of my European families' origin, both are from families that are farmers.   Thus if I ever moved back to Europe, since European families stay in the same business generation to generation I would simply be a farmer.   Well I guess if you have the raw ingredients to produce whisky on a farm, you would also produce that product.  The family farm's web site of Prince Charles' family is Welcome to the official web site of the British Monarchy , and most of his income is derived from dairy farming on a rather large scale.   Thus I probably have dealt with a few dairy farmers on this side of the pond, although currently I do not drink that much milk except in my coffee and on my oatmeal, and I just use quart powdered milk packets which seem to last longer, and thus there is less spoiled milk.  I guess so many people need milk, they have to guard the British Dairy family fairly closely at home and abroad, so as not to lose their source of milk.  Even the Rockefellers raise Swiss Dairy cows now that they have sold Exxon and retired from banking.  Well after I did my laundry, I tried to do some more thinking.   I remembered that Key West, Florida had the highest rate of meningitis of any place in the United States when I was there, because they pumped the raw sewage into the water around the resort areas.   I have read that they finally put in a new sewer system, but less developed islands in the Florida Keys and elsewhere might not be as developed.   When I was in Key West, Florida, the Scottish Rite Masonic temple was in the pink building near the post office where the electric company had their offices, so more than likely there were some Scottish electricians around involved in the electricity business.  Of course one can not produce electricity without an energy source, and when I called Microsoft, I recommended to them that with all of the electricity that they consume, they should try to produce electricity from their volcano Mount Rainier which might erupt soon.   They produce electricity from Volcanoes in Hawaii, Japan, and Iceland, so it is a proven technology.   Basically one pumps water into the volcano, and out comes steam to produce electricity.   It is called "Geo Thermal Energy"  Of course maybe Microsoft is taping into the Alaska pipeline, so they do not worry about saving energy.   Obviously there are a lot of hippie types using lots of electricity in green house activity up north in the colder time of year, particularly in Canada, so maybe that is what has caused our recent energy shortage in North America.  Not much else to report on.   I made and ate the same dinner as last night.   I tried to contact a relative whom might be traveling.   By the way even the popular Bush family in Greenwich got its start by helping the poorer families by supplying them milk for their children.   Well, anyway not much going on.   I got around to troubleshooting the Sluggish Mouse Syndrome on the primary computer.   I had restored my backup from this past Thursday, and I did it again when I started it up this morning.   I still had Sluggish Mouse Syndrome in that the left mouse button my Microsoft Wireless Invisible Laser Mouse would not work properly.   To make sure it was not a system problem, I tried reflashing the bios.   I finally determined it was a hardware mouse problem.   On the mouse there are two plastic strips to control the left and right activity, and on the left one which was not working properly, I pulled it back about a half to three quarters of an inch, and then I reseated it, and the mouse now seems to be working properly again.  I also did the same thing on the right mouse.  Since the local temperature is now 19 degrees Fahrenheit Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground , it is now getting colder in my apartment.    Over my leisure clothes, I am now wearing Duofold 2-Layer Union Suit (For Men) - Save 78% that I bought last July in extra large for about $20 with shipping.   I bet a few people could use them about now, so you can check with the folks in El Salvador to see if any are left over.  They do not have a flap in the rear but a buttoned slot.   I made up this page last winter Men's Mostly Long Underwear and Long Johns and http://geocities.com/mikelscott/lj.htm .   It is quite a bit more comfortable in the apartment with them on, but it takes a bit longer to go to the bathroom.    I could wear a knit cap, since I got my hair cut much shorter recently, but I sort of like keeping my ears opened.   However, in colder weather one can lose 50% of one's body heat through the head.  I think my official position in the United States Army www.army.mil at one time was the Dartmouth University www.dartmouth.edu cold weather studies program they conduct at Dartmouth as opposed to the jail by the same name in England.  Dartmouth was founded as a school for American Indians, so more than likely there are still some American Indians there despite its Ivy League reputation.   They probably have Swedish Ivy there too like they have on the mantel at the Oval Office.   I am basically in an Octagon type house in Greenwich, Connecticut, so nobody ever bothers us very mucy if they know what is good for them unless it is important.  There are Octagon type buildings all around the world, so more than likely you finally figured out whom I really am.   The term Octagon became popular with Octavius Caesar the nephew of Julius Caesar.   Needless to say Cleopatra might be on her way to New Zealand to build another pyramid.  On a lesser note, I only studied Latin for about five or six years, but it helps with other southern European languages which are derived from it.  Alas nobody I know can track down the relative of Charlemagne, so more than likely he is still homeless in the center of Las Angeles surrounded by the last of his retinue.  Whatever the case, I am still maintaining a simple life based on experience as opposed to what the Penny Press tells me.  I do pay a lot of money for communications and information media, but for a lot of years recently if has been focused on politics, but it never really provides much news, and most politicians are just lawyers for rich people.  Well, I will now send out my weekly notes.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/20/07 Saturday 12:45 A.M.:  I ate the same meal as last night.   The Microsoft people I chatted with twice today are not very friendly with me, because they think I have a New York Jewish accent which is rather strange, since Steve Balmer is suppose to be Jewish.  I chatted with somebody out there twice named Steve, but he did not give me his last name, and he said not to call back.   As far as I can tell my Vista machine is running just fine, but since I am restricted to my local apartment here, I am totally unaware of any other activity going on in the community other than the local newspaper on the internet Greenwich, Connecticut, Local News, Jobs, Real Estate | Greenwich Time  .  I seem to have the sluggish mouse syndrome again today, which is easily fixed by uninstalling and reinstalling the Microsoft Mouse driver in Vista.  Perhaps I will do that soon.   When I loaded the Volcano page from Chile they other night, there seemed to have been some sort of unexplained script in the web page which may have tinkered with my computer configuration.   I did chat with a man on Greenwich Avenue this past June who told me he has a house by a volcano in Chile, and he was going to Santa Monica, California to visit his daughter, and I told him about Carmel, California which is more enjoyable for world travelers of an older generation.   The man had the same look as the King of Spain, and he spoke English quite well.  What the Microsoft group have yet to figure out is they keep ratting on the loyal U.S. Americans to their Canadian neighbors out west, and I am more diplomatic, and I just email the Prime Minister of Canada Prime Minister of Canada / Premier ministre du Canada my notes who also looks a bit like me if you happen to be thinking about traveling north.   Of course having spent most of my professional career around the educational community in terms of research, I am not that well versed in terms of what grown adults think versus the younger generation.   I read recently on the BBC that adult males to not reach maturity until their early 30's so basically most of my life I have dealt with more of an adolescent group of people.  Unfortunately the "Old Guard" whom pay a lot of the bills for many of our upscale community activities do not always have the same sense of humor at the younger generation, since they know more.   Microsoft like a lot of groups of individuals whom advertise themselves so much should frequently listen to feed back from other interested parties, since some people know more from their larger perspective.   From what I can tell, the global economy supports their activity at the high end of the market, but what I can also tell, they have a large community of adversaries or competitors which would include some of my neighbors at www.ibm.com .  I use the Microsoft product because it is relatively cheap for computer software and simple versus using more advanced software that requires a $400 an hour www.ibm.com technician.   From what I can tell Microsoft when ever I call up seems to be more interested in what is on television versus what is on the internet.   I guess we could really mess them up a bit by changing around their current television programming.   I know the primary weakness of people in the Pacific Northwest, and that is that since it rains up to 250 days a year they are relatively over worked workaholics stuck inside all of the time, but when one is stuck inside all of the time, one's dopamine levels go down from lack of sun light, and one begins to feel depressed and irritated.   Thus if they can not afford vacations to the sun, the could always do like the Scandinavians have done for the winter doldrums, and that is to install room with full spectrum lighting which is similar to sunlight which would raise their dopamine levels and their moods.  Having spent a great deal of time around a group of people whom developed resorts in warmer climates, I find it peculiar that when people from colder damp climates earn a little money they try to impress people on their home turf instead of exploring the wider world, which the Seattle area people with www.boeing.com would have a little bit of capability of doing so.   Basically from what I can tell and have researched for the automobile drivers in the Pacific Northwest there is a very extreme danger of logging trucks losing their brakes and causing automobile causalities.   Frequently because my last name is Scott, some people think I am in the paper and timber business, unfortunately if you have ever been in Illinois which few people have, it is more like corn, soy beans, and ethanol in that order, and they usually plant a few trees around the fields for wind breaks.   The best movie scene I have ever seen of Illinois is in the Cary Grant film "North by Northwest" where the crop duster pilot tries to run him down in a corn field.   That is pretty much what Illinois looks like in season, and out of season it is mostly brown or black dirt.  Illinois in the winter looks a lot like France in the country side.   Unfortunately the boys at Microsoft spend so much time traveling by air around the country, if they ever come down to earth to see what the general public in the heartland of America thinks in terms of their product, it is something that they do not have time for  because they are too busy working.   Thus it is the more liberal academic networks whom seem to be mostly using their products, but I suppose there might be a tractor or two with Vista installed run by GPS satellite.  Having not seen much of the rest of the country recently, I am not sure what is going on with it.   Obvious Microsoft being so far away from the tobacco fields of Virginia is not use to dealing with cigarette smokes, but at the same time they cater to the Chinese market which is the largest tobacco consuming population in the world.   Since Microsoft keeps calling me up all of the time, they should assign one rep to deal with me for feed back instead of random sales calls.   As a volunteer consultant, I just recommend the software based on my experience, but I am not sure I would be qualified as an expert witness in terms of the software industry, since I actually do not use much of its software other than Internet Explorer with its origins in Champaign, Illinois in the corn fields of Illinois and a unknown Danish programmer whom thinks I ripped him off.  Also from what I can tell I do a little bit of email and blogging.   As a bumper sticker from a friend once said "Writers Have the Last Word".   Basically in Washington State one is dealing with the Astor fortune derived from the Beaver trade, and John Jacob Astor was German who moved to England.   Their cult in England revolves around the penny press, and they were known as the Bloomsbury Group, named after that area in London where they frequented for their literary discussions.  They were sort of like the hippies of their generation with their Avant Garde ways.   I am still somewhat suspect of the Microsoft people always showing up with excellent products, but they do not seem to realize they do not take the feed back in all of the time.   For example I would like to see Internet Explorer 7 be able to work the same way as Internet Explorer 6 without all of the annoying tabs which hog system resources.   I am a bit tired, so I will not shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon, so the vampire can wake up and go back to work.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/19/07 Friday 8:25 P.M.:   I put two new CVS alkaline AA batteries in the Microsoft wireless optical 6000 mouse.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/19/07 Friday 7:55 P.M.:  The Microsoft Vista compression program will not compress foreign language characters, so I edited them out of my list of volcano urls, and I then compressed them into a downloadable folder at http://mikelouisscott.com/volcano/1481_Volcano_URLs.zip and http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20062/1481_Volcano_URLs.zip .   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/19/07 Friday 6:25 P.M.:  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.   I noticed when I was out by our local dumpster that someone has disposed of a smaller window air conditioner on the side of the dumpster area that looks like it might still work.   I will now go through my email.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/19/07 Friday 5:55 P.M.:   Flying of the U.S.A. flag rules predate the Palm Beach, Florida development, so therefore the established U.S.A. flag rules would apply over local zoning codes City to Trump: You're fined! - CNN.com .   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/19/07 Friday 5:45 P.M.:   I ate three scoops of coffee ice cream.   I made a few other telephone calls about something in Bill Gate's presentation at the Las Vegas, Nevada computer and electronics show.   Apparently www.ford.com is going to put voice activated multimedia and communications and navigation devices in all of their new cars, and not just the expensive ones, so hopefully if people are not distracted, they will driving more smartly.   Locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut, this story Get the message Signs say town serious about DWI enforcement - Greenwich Time .   Frequently people do not understand me when I speak English, since I speak English with a Dutch accent since I have a Dutch mother.    A Dutch accents sound a bit like a Gaelic accent Beginner's Guide to Irish Gaelic Pronunciation , which I guess most people are not use to hearing.  Possibly it sounds like Scottish Gaelic, so they think I have been drinking, and I have to remind people, I do not drink alcohol, because I have What is Hypoglycemia? .   Since my mother worked for Dr. Beatty here in Greenwich, Connecticut when he practiced here, it was well diagnosed since he was an expert in the field.   There is a medical laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey that one can send blood, hair, stool, urine, and other samples to that will analyze them to see if one has any unusual medical conditions.   I personally am doing better when I am warmer, since I have more body energy.   CIO    

Note:<888> 01/19/07 Friday 4:25 P.M.:   I picked up the mail earlier, and I showed a neighbor my comfortable but cramped apartment.  I chatted with the Key West Hotel Resorts & Florida Keys Beach Accommodations - Casa Marina Resort Key West at their 800 number in New Brunswick, Canada, and I suggested they advertise on www.priceline.com .   I could not reach them at their local Key West, Florida number, so they are probably on siesta not answering the telephone, which the Hispanic population tends to do.   I am making up a batch of Formula One http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .   I also put out a fresh bowl of white vinegar out for scent control.   Well, the day sure flies by, when one is having fun, but at least I am warm and comfortable, and it is better than sitting outside by the veterans monument and walking Greenwich Avenue when the weather is not too comfortable.   Most of the www.starbucks.com crowd seem to be from warmer areas, and they just like to be seen out in public like mannequins to let people know they are still around.   The reason I liked Key West, Florida was since it was a small urban type island, one could walk around a lot in a warm tropical setting, so one got a lot of exercise walking like when one lives in New York City.    I think Ted Turner called me up today, since I recognized his accent, and he sounded a bit like my diseased Brother in Law.   I obviously recognized his accent.   Explain to Ted diplomatically, I have no place, but the Greenwich Library to go when I leave here that is comfortable enough for me, and I prefer to stay comfortable at home, since I have more privacy, and I get a bit of worked done, since my apartment is also my home office.   Although I have four color televisions and two Digital Cable boxes also connected to three computers in the living room with TV cards, I am not well enough versed on the public media to comment on it, and I just mainly maintain the computer systems and other electronic items, and I mostly read the internet reports as opposed to having people argue about the news and comment in the media.   Obviously a lot of people in the media are repeating what they hear from so called informed individuals at social gatherings, so obviously everyone has an opinion based on their economic circumstances.   CIO   

Note:<888> 01/19/07 Friday 2:25 P.M.:   I was awake at 6 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I listened to Microsoft at CES with bill gates .  Some of his ideas might be awfully expensive in terms of energy in the future.   I noticed the Epox server did not have my current volcano list on it http://mikelouisscott.com/volcano/ and the current Christmas Card was missing Michael Louis Scott's Christmas 2006 Card .  I transferred them to the Epox server yesterday, when I set up the server, so possibly someone either came into the apartment and deleted them or a hacker deleted them.   I keep multiple backups, so I restored them.   Obviously, somebody is sort a clone just doing what some idiot tells him to do.   I made extra backups of the files.   This took a while, and I did another Epox XP ASR backup of the Epox server from the first hard drive to the second hard drive, so the volcano files were saved in the new backup.  I watered the plants, and I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.   I have noticed on my weather station that it is about 5 degrees warmer with the sensor near the outside window picking up heat than the temperature is actually is outside, so there is quite a bit of heat loss through the single pane windows in the building.   For now I have the thermostat at 80 degrees Fahrenheit, and the living room temperature is 74.4 degrees Fahrenheit, so I am comfortable inside, but I have to wait and see what the cost is on the February 2007 bill.   I turned the bedroom thermostat to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.   I had two no person telephone calls and a call from www.eweek.com that I had did not have time to take.   I get computer magazine telephone calls from their free subscriptions, but I never read the free computer magazines, since I have plenty of relevant technology news on the internet.   Thus I constantly recycle the dead wood press into our recycle bins.  I think it makes some computer executives feel more important by displaying them in their offices.   Of course some of them pay to advertise in them in hopes of getting additional business.   I will now do some regular computer work, but first I will open a 18 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder, and I will put it in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, and I will heat it on on vegetable cycle, and I will put it in a large Cobalt blue soup bowl, and I will eat it with a glass of iced tea.   CIO              

Note:<888> 01/19/07 Friday 1:15 A.M.:   I found out that Norton Internet Security 7 for Vista is available to buy online and download at Norton Internet Security: Overview - Symantec Corp. and Norton Internet Security: System Requirements - Symantec Corp. .   I called up Symantec at 1-800-441-7234, and after about an hour and a half wait, they connected me to their direct technical support number in India at 1-877-832-2810 .   I chatted with them, and I suggested trying to install the Norton Internet Security 2007 CD for XP in Vista with XP/SP2 compatibility, but although it started to install, it failed half way through and sent an error report to Symantec.   I then was told they are still working on the Vista Update, and it should be available soon for download.   I then ran the Error: "Norton (program name) cannot be installed because you have another variant . . . " to remove any install features left behind, and I rebooted.   Thus I guess in India, patience is a virtue.   I would imagine in India they might have enough people to figure it out, versus me working all by myself half way around the world.    I guess www.ibm.com is away sailing at one of their 40 offices in the Caribbean.   Once IBM was given a chance to buy 25% of www.microsoft.com for $50 million, but I guess IBM did not feel like sailing around Seattle, so the rest is history.   I can not figure out what the allure is of IBM to the Caribbean, unless they can not afford to heat their big houses up north.   Possibly, they might think that when they do not make the right business decisions, some of their stock holders might object and replace management, but as of yesterday, they seem to managing to survive off their core businesses IBM News - 2007-01-18 IBM Reports 2006 Fourth-Quarter Results United States and IBM 4Q06 Quarterly Earnings Report , so possibly once one gets into the upper echelons of computing where the big bucks are made, you need a tax write off in the Caribbean.   Alas, if that is the case, they never paid me for my work down in the Caribbean, so maybe I should look into sending them a bill after all of these years.  Of course Jimmy Carter let Tom Watson go to Russia, so he was known as ambassador Watson, and after driving his Volvo around Russia, he decided their were warmer parts of the world.  I remember one of the curious first sites I saw on the internet 11 years ago was coming out of Maui where another pilot Charles Lindberg had also retired.  Of course maybe small islands could not hold all of their associates in warmer climates, so they just opted out and moved the whole show to India, and left a skeleton crew behind the way Exxon www.exxon.com  did, when it moved to Irvine, Texas.   Members of my family know IBM people, so it seems more than likely whatever few IBM types remain in this area are managing to survive off pizzas from Planet Pizza, and nobody anymore seems to know what if anything goes on up Armonk, New York.    IBM 10 years ago IBM announces fourth quarter, full-year 1996 results .  He might still be around IBM Press room - Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Former IBM CEO - United States .    Thus in their new digs IBM's New Headquarters Reflects A Change in Corporate Style , my apartment might be considered large by cubicle standards, of course they probably keep their place warmer after all of those warm weather vacations.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO    

Note:<888> 01/18/07 Thursday 9:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a couple of relatives.   25 dead as storm batters Europe - CNN.com .   U.S. official: Chinese test missile obliterates satellite - CNN.com .  BBC NEWS | Europe | Huge storms sweep northern Europe .  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Your PCs forecast climate future .  BBC NEWS | Technology | Internet's future in 2020 debated  .  Well, not much happening on this side of the pond.   Now that all of the summer people are gone, we are eating a little bit better, since we do not have as many mouths to feed locally.  

Note:<888> 01/18/07 Thursday 8:20 P.M.:   I opened up the package of six boneless chicken breasts, and I put four of them in a large flat Rubbermaid container.   I then rinsed off the other two in cold water, and I dried them with a paper towel.   I then put a thin coat of olive oil in a Pyrex pie dish, and on a separate plate, I rubbed the bottom side of the boneless chicken breast with olive oil, and then I spread a thick coating of 4C seasoned bread crumbs on it, and then I did the same with the top side and the other boneless chicken breast.   I then put them in the Pyrex pie dish, and I baked them in the Farberware convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 minutes.   For the last 15 minutes, I put an inch of water in a Revere 2 quart pot with steamer tray and lid, and I added 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli crowns, and I steamed them on medium high electric burner heat for 15 minutes.  For the last few minutes of the entire cooking cycle, I reheated on one vegetable cycle the Rubbermaid container with the rice left over from last night.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/18/07 Thursday 7:00 P.M.:  I did an XP ASR backup of the Epox server from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I am now doing a Epox server XP ASR backup from the first hard drive to the Bytecc external hard drive.   The second hard drive on the Epox server is only 20 gigabyte, so there is not much room left with the server files and the backup file.   However, I probably will not be posting to much more content, and if I needed to, I could always use the FIC server which has a 320 gigabyte second hard drive.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/18/07 Thursday 6:35 P.M.:   I went to my 3 P.M. appointment, and I returned home.   It is beginning to snow a little bit.   I have the server now running on the Epox backup computer, and I have shut down the primary FIC server, since there is no point letting it get too much usage with the very few users that I have on my web site.  It is still setup for multimedia usage, if I want to do some multimedia work.   For now I will run the server off the Epox server, which is a simpler system.   I have the Computer Associates Firewall on it, which is more up to date that Norton Internet Security 2006.   Thus the Epox computer underneath the small brass and glass end tables at the far end of the brass and glass coffee table will be running all the time.  I will leave its red case light going for now, since it does not cost too much to replace.   I also configured the IIS server on its Vista Beta 2 server partition, but I could not figure out how to get it to go online.   I will work with it some more when I have some time.   CIO    

Note:<888> 01/18/07 Thursday 2:00 P.M.:   I have the server setup on the Epox backup computer running the IIS server from XP Professional.  I microwaved and ate a 18 ounce can of Progresso Mushroom soup, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the primary computer and the FIC or previous server computer.   I will get ready to go out for my 3 P.M. appointment.   CIO   

Note:<888> 01/18/07 Thursday 12:40 P.M.:   United Russia Set For Election Victory - Forbes.com .  Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor .  I went through my email.   I installed the Microsoft Download details: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package on the server which runs XP Professional.   I stopped the IIS server running on the server, and I changed the Optimum Boost setting, so the Epox backup computer running the Vista server beta 2 goes online with the Advanced DynamicDNS configuration program from Optimum Boost.   I am now installing the IIS server features on the Vista beta 2 server on the Epox backup computer, so possibly shortly I might get it to go online as my primary server.   Then I would be able to shut down my primary server, and use it as a regular backup computer.  The primary server is really a fairly advanced computer, so it does not need to be really run as a server, considering I hardly get any traffic on my web site.  The Epox backup computer with a AMD XP Athlon 2000 processor and 512 megs. of memory and XP Professional on the primary computer could also be set up as a server with the XP IIS server, so I might run it that way for a while if I can not get the Vista beta 2 server working on it.   I picked up my mail, and I chatted with the mail man.  I had a telephone call from some religious group trying to read me something, but I explained diplomatically I was busy.  CIO 

Note:<888> 01/18/07 Thursday 10:00 A.M.:   After I cleaned up, I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.   I said hello to some neighbors.   The Welcome to Greenwich Library! book mobile is here delivering some books for my neighbors.   I will now do some regular computer work.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/18/07 Thursday 9:00 A.M.:   Hurricane sweeps across Europe - CNN.com .  Winter storms kill 65, chill Sun Belt states - CNN.com .    Need to stay warm, there are still three available eBay: ECW Sleeping Bag US Army Surplus Excellent Condition (item 280043680378 end time Jan-03-07 07:26:53 PST) .   I hope I do not need to use mine.   I will now shower and clean up.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/18/07 Thursday 7:30 A.M.:  I was awake at 6 A.M..  The download for Norton Internet Security 7 for Vista is not yet available, although it was suppose to be released yesterday.   I did a Microsoft Windows Vista Complete PC backup of the primary computer from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I chatted with a friend.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I will now wash the breakfast dishes, and I will make my bed.   I have my usual 3 P.M. appointment today.   CIO    

Note:<888> 01/17/07 Wednesday 9:30 P.M.:   Police: Body found in lake may be missing student - Greenwich Time .   BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Climate resets 'Doomsday Clock' .   BBC NEWS | Technology | Open source gets European boost .  I ate the last scoop of strawberry cheesecake ice cream and two scoops of coffee ice cream.   I chatted with a relative.   Current outside temperature is 19 degrees Fahrenheit Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/17/07 Wednesday 8:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  Inn on Biltmore Estate - Special Offers .  Cadillac's Big Bang - Forbes.com .   The Insider's Guide to Windows Vista - The Insider's Guide to Windows Vista - Features by PC Magazine .  Vista Aims to Stop Hackers' Social Engineering Ploys - News and Analysis by PC Magazine .  Microsoft at CES with bill gates .  I went through my email.   CIO    

Note:<888> 01/17/07 Wednesday 5:50 P.M.:    If you need to remove the Norton Internet Security 7 beta for Vista or its remnants before installing the new version of Norton Internet Security 7 for Vista when available, the XP/2000 Norton Removal Tool worked fine on my Vista machine without any problems Error: "Norton (program name) cannot be installed because you have another variant . . . " .   CIO

Note:<888> 01/17/07 Wednesday 5:05 P.M.:    I woke up at 6 A.M. this morning.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went out, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I then drove over to the Barbershop, beauty salon, haircuts - Old Greenwich, Connecticut in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, and I got a traditional short preppy hair cut for $20 and $5 tip for $25 total.   It is nice doing errands in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, because one does not have to pay to park, and usually in the early morning, there are plenty of parking places.   I then went by the Rummage Room thrift shop, and they were not opened until 10 A.M..  I went by CVS, and I bought two one liter bottles of Crest Pro Health Mouthwash for $3.99 each, two 18 count gallon CVS slider bags for $2.50 and $1.49, a 55 count box of CVS kitchen draw string garbage can bags for $6.29, two Gold Emblem 3 ounce cinnamon for .99 each, and a Gold Emblem chicken and meat seasoning 3.95 ounce for .99 plus $1.08 tax for $22.05 total.   I then went by the Rummage Room thrift shop, and I bought a like new aluminum baking pan about 11 inches by 14 inches by 3 inches for $2, a small round ceramic lamp for $5 and a 3 foot Radio Shack  Gold Series Coaxial Cable for $2 and .54 tax for $9.54 total.  I then went back to CVS, and I bought a 10 ounce can of CVS honey roasted cashew nuts for $2.99.   I then drove out to Tod's Point, and I parked at the southwest parking area, and there were about 50 parrots by the bush on the waterfront and a number of pigeons.   I got out of my car, and I started to throw the cashew nuts on the ground, but all off the parrots and pigeons disappeared quickly, and about 200 sea gulls dive bombed the location and quickly ate the cashew nuts.   Sea Gulls are a very aerodynamic bird when they have to be.   A couple of the adjacent spectators were rather amused.  I then drove over to the southeast parking area, and the Grey Hound Rescue squad were exercising some of their grey hound dogs.   I used the bathroom at the closed concession stand area.   I then went over to the Mobil Express Car Wash, and I got the basic Express Car Wash for $5.99.  I then towel dried the car, and I shook out the driver's side floor mat.   I then went to Walgreens, and I bought a gallon of full strength Peak antifreeze for $11.99, and with the Walgreens circular coupons, I got two 18 ounce Ajax antibacterial dish washing liquid for $1.59 both, two Vanish Borax drop-in blue toilet cleaners for $1.59 and two 15 ounce cans of Swanson's chicken broth for $1.59 both plus .92 tax for $17.38 total.  I topped up the oil in my car, and I topped up the antifreeze with the remaining Prestone antifreeze from the back of my car, and I threw out both containers.   I left the new unopened container of Peak full strength antifreeze in the back of the car.   I noticed on the front entrance of Walgreens there is a missing persons sign for a 22 year old blond haired fellow with an email address with a name similar to "Jason Zarkatsky".   It says he is 6 foot tall and 190 pounds.   He looks familiar, so I have seen him around somewhere probably downtown over the years.   I then went by Radio Shack in Cos Cob, and I bought a gold two way cable slitter for $9.99 and .60 tax for $10.59 total.   I then went back by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and I used their bathroom, and I got some spare parking change.   I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Service Center Exxon gasoline station, and I bought $22 of premium unleaded gasoline at $2.899 a gallon for 124.8 miles driving since the first of the month at an average of 17.1 miles per gallon driving an average of 17 miles per hour.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a six pack of boneless chicken breasts at $2.99 a pound for $11.30, two 8 ounce www.cabotcheese.com Hunter's Seriously Sharp cheddar cheese for $2 each, a six pack of Stop and Shop bagels for $2, a pound of baby carrots for $1.79, fresh Chiquita bananas at .54 for .48, broccoli crowns at $1.79 a pound for $1.43, and a bulb of garlic at $1.99 a pound for .26 for $21.26 total.    I then returned home, and I brought up the groceries and the mail.   I put away the groceries.   I put the new small pottery lamp with a torpedo bulb in it on the small Panasonic television in the bathroom with a small white cloth shade on it.   I made and ate the same primary meal as the last week or so.   I used two cloves of chopped garlic in the hamburger onion mixture.   I used the new gold cable and gold two splitter, and I used them for the cable from the cable switch to the two splitter that leads to each of the TV cards in the primary and the server computers, so they are all gold from the wall connection for better picture clarity.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/16/07 Tuesday 9:45 P.M.:   Order Windows XP Service Pack 2 on CD for shipping cost of about $3.50 if you need it.    I chatted with a relative.  Yesterday I ate three scoops of strawberry shortcake ice cream and today I just ate two scoops of strawberry short cake ice cream.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  BBC NEWS | Business | Skype users to get lie detectors .   It seems to be getting colder outside Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .   I have noticed it tends to be about 5 degrees Fahrenheit colder outside than my weather station says in the apartment, so I guess there is a bit of heat lost by the window it is adjacent to.  CIO

Note:<888> 01/16/07 Tuesday 8:00 P.M.:   Persistent zombie attacks target Symantec corporate software | Tech News on ZDNet .  Symantec Client Security and Symantec AntiVirus Elevation of Privilege .  Windows Vista Everything You Need to Know .  Security News, Product Reviews, Trends and Analysis - eWEEK.com Security Center .  Monsanto Set To Blossom - Forbes.com .  MSDN Events - Next Stop: The Big Event .  Ready for a New Day Launch Tour 2007 .    I registered for the Cromwell, Connecticut event on February 22, 2007 at 1 P.M. WWE - Event Details - In-Person Event .  One is suppose to get a free copy of Microsoft Office Professional 2007 for attending the event.  Of course it depends on the weather, and what my budget is at that time of the month.   I can always cancel , but it is only about an hour drive from here without traffic.  Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Beta Program .  I finished going through my email.  CIO 

Note:<888> 01/16/07 Tuesday 6:50 P.M.:  This is the page that says Norton Internet Security 7 for Vista will be available for download tomorrow Windows Vista ™ Information Center - Symantec Corp. .  CIO 

Note:<888> 01/16/07 Tuesday 6:30 P.M.:  I installed Vista beta 2 server on the Epox backup computer in a spare partition.   The Optimum Boost Advanced Configuration DynamicDNS program starts up with it, so technically it should work with it.   I did not change its settings though to try to put the beta server online.  I would also have to set up the server.   I copied the server files to the beta server, so it could be put online very quickly, if I needed to use it.  The Symantec Norton Internet Security 2007 Vista beta will not work with the Vista server only Vista, so one would have to run the Vista server with its own Firewall.   On the Epox computer, Vista does not support its old Creative Soundblaster Live MP3+ card or the Hauppauge WinTV Go card.   The Realtek motherboard audio does work though.   According to a Symantec, the final release of Norton Internet Security 7 for Vista is supposed to be release for download sometime tomorrow on January 17, 2007.  There is a rebate on Norton Internet Security 2007 Home & Homeoffice : Rebates - Symantec Corp. .  However, it is not good for my OEM purchase from Newegg.com - Symantec Norton Internet Security 2007 Single User - OEM  which already reflects the discount.  I would assume there will be a new download for the Norton Internet Security 7 for Vista that I can just enter my license number into.  We will see tomorrow.   I will now go through my email.  If one has Norton Internet Security 2006 installed there is an update link here special_2007upgrade.xml for XP users.  The Norton Internet Security 2007 for Vista download might be available for download at this link when it is available http://www.symantec.com/smb/downloads/index.jsp .  I will now go through my email.  CIO        

Note:<888> 01/16/07 Tuesday 2:10 P.M.:  I went outside briefly, and I picked up my mail.  Buy.com - ViewSonic 20'' Multimedia Digital LCD Display 1400x1050, 8ms, DVI - Black - VG2021M .  I made and ate my usual primary meal for the last week.  I added to cloves of chopped garlic to the burger and onion mixture in the frying pan along with the fat.  I downloaded the Vista Server beta two, and I am installing it on a spare partition on the Epox backup computer.  I want to see if it works with the Optimum Boost Advanced Configuration DynamicDNS program which permits one to have a Dynamic DNS IP address with Optimum Boost.  It did not work with Vista beta 2.   If one can not use it with the Vista Server, there is no point in trying to beta test it.   I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note:<888> 01/16/07 Tuesday 11:25 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I ate three 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch by .25 inch slices  of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.   It you need a little bit of java to drink at you own home instead of paying for a lot of coffee to go to www.starbucks.com , you can try TheCofffee.com: The World's Premier Online Coffee Superstore .  I had a no person telephone call.   I will now do some regular computer work.   CIO   

Note:<888> 01/16/07 Tuesday 10:45 A.M.:  I was awaken last night at 7 P.M. by a neighbor whom wanted a ride to the local hospital, but since I was tired I was not able to drive the neighbor to the local hospital, so another neighbor drove the neighbor to the hospital.   I slept until 2:30 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   I went back to bed until about 5 A.M. this morning.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went out, and I took my car for a drive up Lake Avenue to the top and west on Close Road and then down Round Hill Road and down North Maple Avenue and a right on Patterson Avenue and down into the center of town.   I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.    I stopped by CVS.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.   I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I renewed my library card.  I checked out a book "Where Golf is Great The Finest Courses of Scotland and Ireland" by James W. Finegan.  I then returned home.   I chatted with some neighbors and the building custodian.   During my drive in back country to keep my car battery charged up, I noticed on one of my family's old houses, they had taken off the front with the pillars and put a stone facade on it.   I guess the current residents do not need the shade in the summer.   CIO    

Note:<888> 01/15/07 Monday 5:15 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.   JCPenney housewares department Christmas Pancake Pan .  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I am a bit tired.   I guess all of the computer work over the last few months has built up on me, and I have been trying to get a bit more rest recently and back to a bit of my normal routine.  I am doing just fine with the warmer weather, since I am not as cold in the apartment as in previous winters.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/15/07 Monday 4:25 P.M.:   Queen Elizabeth II Event highlights > Overseas visits 2007 .  Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas Message to Armed Services http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page5323.asp .  The British Monarchy Media Centre .  Speeches and articles > The Christmas Broadcast, 25 December 2006 .  Historic speeches and Christmas broadcasts . The Christmas Broadcast 2006 . CIO

Note:<888> 01/15/07 Monday 4:15 P.M.:  I checked out some of the content on the Digital Cable Box.  Technically since a second Digital Cable Box is connected to my primary and server computers, and since I have the Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP Expert card and its software on the server with a larger hard drive, I could record the a Pay For View or other Digital Cable box event, and then I could burn it to DVD with the software that comes with the Leadtek card.  It does not work with the Vista Media Player, but the software that comes with it is comparable to what the Vista Media Player seems to do.  It is still available here at Newegg.com - Leadtek TV2000XP/EXPERT TV/FM Tuner Card w/REMOTE - Retail .  However, currently I do not feel like paying for a Pay For View event from Cablevision.   Also, although I currently have the capability, I am not really that much into video at the current moment, but maybe some time in the future I will experiment with it to see how it all would work.   I watched some of the History Channel about Victorian Times.  CIO     

Note:<888> 01/15/07 Monday 1:55 P.M.:  I made and ate the same primary meal as I have eaten for the last week.   I was told by GEICO that there is an ice storm going on in Buffalo, New York, so I guess it will be passing into Northern New England.   I chatted with two friends and a relative.   People do not seem to have anytime to chat anymore, since they are so busy working to afford the higher prices today.   I noticed in the Stop and Shop yesterday that the regular price of sirloin steak is now $6.99 a pound.   I remember back in the good old days of Eisenhower, when my family lived in Decatur, Alabama until 1961 that a sirloin steak back then was .59 a pound, and I can remember buying them recently here as cheaply as $1.99 a pound, so prices do seem to be going up.   Possibly the United States Government should impose a tariff on goods imported from China and Asia and other low cost of production parts of the world economy.   I know in Europe, they have a Value Added tax on all merchandise sold as well as import duties.   I heard 10 years ago that there is a 100% luxury car tax on imported Volvos in Denmark.   Thus I suppose the new Europeans here think out local prices are probably cheaper than what they are use to paying for back home in Europe.   I suggested to a relative that they should have more entertainment programs on television instead of all the news and police shows and infomercials.    Although I have lots of television channels in the daytime, it seems to be mostly children's entertainment shows.   Maybe there is money in baby sitting.    It is sort of hard to tell  whether many people still read books anymore, since even a New York Time bell selling book Books - Best-Seller Lists - New York Times rarely sells more than 50,000 copies.   This looks interesting Amazon.com: 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List: Books: Patricia Schultz , if you have the money to travel.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/15/07 Monday 11:55 A.M.:  I  watched a two hour program on www.cnbc.com about www.walmart.com .   Unfortunately it costs me too much money to drive to Wal-Mart 15 miles east of me on U.S. 1 in Norwalk, Connecticut.   I could make a list every month and drive there once a month to possibly save some money, but I will have to look into that depending on a how long my list is.  It might be cheaper for drugstore products at Wal-Mart compared to www.cvs.com , since they do not seem to have many of the regular items that I buy at www.cvs.com on sale anymore.   I took four three inch by one quarter inch diameter screws, and I drilled four holes slightly smaller than 1/4 inch diameter in the four hole positions two inches beneath the stereo shelf in the stereo bookcase, and I screwed in the screws so they project about .75 inches outward, and I then raised the stereo shelf on each side removing the plastic shelf clips from the next height two inches above, and I lowered the stereo shelf two inches, so there is now room at the top of the stereo rack system to open the Technics record player at the top, and since the shelf is securely supported with the heavy screws, one does not have to worry about it collapsing.   I do not need to support the shelf from below with the telephone books on top of the records anymore, so the telephone books are back on the floor by the chair in front of the stereo system, and the records are more easily able to be retrieved from the shelf beneath the stereo system by slightly tilting the chair forward.   I did that while listening to the program about Wal-Mart.  I went out, and I got the exact amount of mileage on my 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo station wagon, and it is now 105,042.   When I got the car at the first of October 2004, it had 98,500 miles, so basically in 27 months I have driven about 6,500 miles or about 3,000 miles a year.   I called www.geico.com at 1-800-42GEICO, and I gave them the right mileage, and earlier in the week, I had given them the updated information on my account.   They will be sending me a premium deduction return of about $7 in a couple of weeks.   I chatted with a friend.  I can get a $100,000 renter's insurance policy on the contents of my apartment from GEICO through Travelers for about $334 a year or $27.83 a month, but it is hard to determine the value of the contents of my apartment since I have been here for 18 years, and a lot of the items in terms of electronics have depreciated, while the other items might now have a higher replacement cost as prices have gone up.   I will now do some regular computer work.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/15/07 Monday 7:35 A.M.:  I was awake at 4 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 7 A.M..   While asleep, I did a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the Bytecc External hard drive.   I will now wash the breakfast dishes and make my bed.   CIO   

Note:<888> 01/14/07 Sunday 8:20 P.M.:  I installed the Office 2003 updates with Windows Essentials Updates.  I did a Vista Complete PC backup of the primary computer from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I turned up the living room thermostat from 78 degrees Fahrenheit to 80 degrees Fahrenheit, so it is about 75 degrees in the apartment living room and less damp.   I took out the tea tray from the right side of the primary computer, and I put in a larger cutting board, and I put the Cablevision Digital Cable box on it.   I then put another folding tea tray with legs on top of the cutting board above the cable box with coasters underneath each leg of the folding tea tray to make it more staple, and I then put the Visioneer 4400 USB scanner that is connected to the server on the folding tea tray.   Thus one has access to the scanner without having to move the cable box.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/14/07 Sunday 6:45 P.M.:   BBC NEWS | South Asia | Ganges flushed for Hindu bathers .   BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Anti-cancer chicken eggs produced .  BBC NEWS | Business | Ford-Microsoft software unveiled .   CIO

Note:<888> 01/14/07 Sunday 5:05 P.M.:    Newegg.com - ViewSonic Q19WB-2 Black 19" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor Built in Speakers - Retail .  2007 Joint Assembly: Acapulco, Mexico - 22-25 May 2007 .  Newegg.com - Kingston Standard 2GB Secure Digital (SD) Flash Card - Retail .    I went through my email.  Earlier around noon, I ate three scoops of strawberry cheese cake ice cream.   A little while ago, I microwaved and ate a single serving bag of popcorn.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/14/07 Sunday 2:25 P.M.:  I was awake at 2 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 4 A.M..  I watched a bit of television.  I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went out, and I had left my car lights on this past Thursdays, when I went out, so the battery was run down.   I tried using the new jump start system, but it would not work, so I used the old jump start system to start the car, and it started right up.   I went for a drive.   I drove downtown, and I drove down by the waterfront.   I then drove back up to East Putnam Avenue, and I drove over to Old Greenwich, and I drove out to Tod's Points.   I drove around Tod's Point, and I parked at the southeast concession area, and I left the car running, and I checked to make sure all of my car lights work.   I then returned back to the central downtown Greenwich area.   I noticed they now have a Balducci's where the old Hay Day store used to be across from St. Catherine's Church in Riverside on the Post Road.  Balducci's is the famous Greenwich Village fruit and vegetable market.   I also noticed they have the Bagel Shop where Radio Shack used to be in Cos Cob.   I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I used the bathroom at the train station.   I stopped by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue.   After I completed my walk, I went by the Stop and Shop.   I bought two 8 ounce bars of www.cabotcheese.com Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese for $2 each, two 59 ounce carafes of Tropicana orange juice with calcium for $2 each, one 1.75 quart container of Breyers coffee ice cream $3, one 1.75 quart container of Breyers butter pecan ice cream $3, a 22 ounce Freschetta Brick Oven Italian Style pepperoni pizza $3.74, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, fresh broccoli crowns at $1.79 a pound for $3.26, Chiquita bananas at .54 a pound for $1.60 for $25.59 total.   I returned home.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I brought up the groceries and the jump start system.   I put away the groceries.  I made and ate the same primary meal as the last week's meals.  I took a nap on the long green sofa.  I keep two pillows and a sheet underneath the French reproduction chair, and I have a white blanket on the back of the down sofa, and after I move the big pillows off the long green sofa, I use the blanket, sheet, and pillows for a nap.   I put the big pillows on the recliner.   I checked out the new jump start system, and it looks like it is working.  Possibly the teeth of the copper contacts do not protrude far enough to make a firm enough electrical connection on the battery terminals.   The next time the car battery runs down, I will try to use it making sure I have a firm enough connection.   I will also leave it charging all of the time to make sure it is fully charged.   It weighs 17 pounds, so I would rather not have the expense of returning it for exchange or refund, so I want to make sure I have troubleshot the problem, before I return it.   I chatted with a relative and a friend.   I will now do some regular computer work.   CIO    

Note:<888> 01/13/07 Saturday 8:25 P.M.:  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   Have a good night.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/13/07 Saturday 8:00 P.M.:   http://www.replaytv.com/ .   I rearranged the cable connection to the primary computer Hauppauge WIN/TV/Go card, so it comes out of the cable selector box on top of the Digital Cable box, so the primary computer now gets the Digital Cable Box TV signal as well as the regular cable signal.   I had to use another cable 2 splitter I had and another cable for the arrangement.   However having it set up that way, one can only play the same cable selection on the primary and the server computers, but one can change the programs within each computer's TV programs, but only the digital signal from the digital cable box.   I do not think it is worth looking into a Vista ready TV card until after Vista is released.   I was able to find the latest Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 drivers for my value card from the Creative Asia Philippines link in English, since the U.S.A. one does not work.   I also installed the Creative program they have from the same link.   The earlier Creative Vista beta driver had expired.   I will now do a Vista Complete PC backup of the primary computer from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   CIO    

Note:<888> 01/13/07 Saturday 6:00 P.M.:  I opened a 18 ounce can of Progresso chicken and wild rice soup, and I put it in a microwave proof pot with lid, and I microwaved it on two vegetable cycles, and then I put it in a large cobalt blue soup bowl, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.   I watched a bit of the History Channel about German highway construction.   I guess not only do the Germans know how to build cars, but they also know how to build highways, but apparently highways can cause increased pollution in the areas they go through as if we did not already know that.   I have spent 16 years focused on personal computers, so possibly other things have changed besides computers that I am unaware of.   Unfortunately after all of my effort the supply of money or cash or wampum for any of these other new items has not been made available.    I have global communications on the trans Atlantic cable nearby, but alas Europeans do not seem to know how to communicate yet.   When I was last in Europe particularly in France, the French were complaining the Germans drive to fast.   I guess by the time European technology gets translated into American English, we are left behind the times.   Maybe some day, Adolph Hitler will show up at my door with a shovel and ask me to build a new highway over here, but what is the point of building better highways if we do not have the fuel to drive on them.   Thus we now have the Information Highway better known as the Internet.  Of let your fingers do the walking.  I will now try to do some more regular computer work.  There was an interesting segment on the history channel about how farming irrigation out west has changed and about water.   CIO  

End of Scott's Notes week of 01/13/07:

Note:<888> 01/13/07 Saturday 3:50 P.M.:   I  watched some of the History Channel on channel 161.   I went downstairs, and I picked up the mail.   It seems like it might be raining a bit outside.   I looked out the window from the community room, and there are a lot of cars over at the ice skating rink.   Alas having grown up down south until 1961, I was never big on ice skating, but as a teenager in Boston, I used to go to a lot of hockey games, since there was not much else going on in Boston.  I recall the only time I ever ice skated was a few times on the ponds when they use to freeze here in Baldwin Farms Road North off Round Hill Road.   I also once ice skated at the Omni in Atlanta, Georgia when I had nothing else to do on a weekend.   I think I also ice skated at the Rockefeller Center ice rink in Manhattan before going to Oslo, Norway around St. Patrick's' Day in 1983, so my ice skating experience is a bit limited.  I also helped build an indoor ice skating rink at Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu when I was there when each coolant pipe at its cross sections had to be leveled to the same level, and we used Lincoln pennies to level them which they later welded in place.   I once went to a Ranger's hockey match at Madison Square Garden when I first arrived back in Manhattan in 1973.   However, I have been walking on snow and ice in this area for many years, alas recently because of El Nino, we have not been getting too much cold weather.   I will now do some routine computer work.  Quite frankly after I frequently lived in warmer climates down south during the winters from 1975 to 1983, I have really never gotten use to being up north in the winter temperature wise, but is nice having a roof over one's head and plenty of food.   However, there is not much land down south compared to the rest of North America, so we have to let other people use the limited amount of land down south, while we are all crowded in up north in the rather open spacious areas of the north country.   Of course a great adventure in America, can be driving around in the winter in the north country, if one has fuel for such an adventure, but alas in the energy depleted north country, there are not as many people driving around as there once was.   I am still only 20 miles east of Manhattan, and there is probably something going on in Manhattan, but that can be expensive to visit and park there and walk around, plus it tends to be too noisy there.   I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note:<888> 01/13/07 Saturday 12:55 P.M.:  I am awake from my nap on the long green sofa.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/13/07 Saturday 8:00 A.M.:  I made and ate the same primary meal as yesterday.   I added a little Old Bay seasoning to the rice also.   I watched a bit of television.   I might now take a bit of a nap.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/13/07 Saturday 6:15 A.M.: Now available Newegg.com - Kingston Standard 2GB Secure Digital (SD) Flash Card - Retail .   Lesser Antiles Volcano Research Summer 2007 program .   Google Earth 4 http://www.download.com/Google-Earth/3000-2054_4-10411076.html?tag=nl.e415 .  Chile  Volcán Villarrica, Chile - (P.O.V.I.) .  Seguimiento visual del Volcán Villarrica - 2006 .  Volcán Villarrica - Vídeos Acelerados con Imágenes Estáticas .  I went through my email.   Cheaper than new ink cartridges Lexmark X1240 All In One Printer - Wal-Mart , but it only comes with half size ink cartridges or only one and not a black one.   Memory Deal Newegg.com - A-DATA 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail , but it is 2.7 volts, so I do not know if even I could afford it, if it would work with my computer which takes 2.5 volts.  This might work Newegg.com - CORSAIR 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Desktop Memory - Retail or Newegg.com - G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Kit System Memory - Retail , but these would Newegg.com - Once You Know, You Newegg 1 GB FFT 400 (PC3200) 2.5 volt .   Memory seems to have come down $10 to $15 in the last couple of weeks.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/13/07 Saturday 4:55 A.M.:  Of course locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut, one can stay in the Riverside area about three miles east of downtown on East Putnam Avenue at the Riverside Howarrd Johnsons www.hojo.com "search Riverside, Connecticut" starting at $79 a night Howard Johnson Hotel - Riverside, Greenwich, CT, United States Overview | Priceline.com Hotels .  Riverside, Connecticut does have hourly bus service along U.S. 1 in the daytime CTTRANSIT Website and http://www.cttransit.com/content/pdfs/stam_11_wkdysched.pdf and Saturdays and Sundays http://www.cttransit.com/content/pdfs/stam_11_satsunsched.pdf and http://www.cttransit.com/content/pdfs/stam_11_map.pdf for about a $1.25 one way http://www.cttransit.com/content/faresStandard.asp , so we do offer inexpensive tourist accommodations and travel in the area, if you know where to look.   In the big city of Stamford, Connecticut nearby which is soon to become the World's fourth largest financial capital once www.rbs.co.uk consolidates their New York offices there, there is an inexpensive Stamford YMCA with daily and weekly rates Stamford YMCA Lodging Rates which are about a third to half the price of Greenwich depending on one's stay, and the same bus system serves both communities.   Once the local Greenwich community starts quieting down, there is some suburban entertainment such as movies, coffee shops, pubs, and restaurants.    I guess it is not too busy recently, since the once busy Blue Cafe has shut down, and their French manager who once was at the nearby Versailles restaurant is now up at the top of Greenwich Avenue just west on West Putnam Avenue at the Barcelona Cafe where the old Portofino restaurant cafe use to be.  The lease expensive rentals I know on the waterfront if available are probably the Barney and Jenkins real estate boarding house at 702 Steamboat Road where I lived for the first 5 years I returned to Greenwich for about about $800 to $2000 a month.   There telephone number is 1-203-869-0800 as I recall, and they have other less expensive rentals in the downtown area.  I finished the external backup of the Toshiba laptop computer.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/13/07 Saturday 4:05 A.M.:  Back about 20 to 16 years ago, when www.ibm.com was down the tubes, I used to regularly drive over White Plains, New York to a pub where a few late night medical personnel, flight personnel, ibm personnel, and dpw personnel would be up in the early morning hours to try to network with some of the IBM people.   It never lead to a job with IBM, but the son of the head of personnel of IBM use to be there along with a diverse group of other people.   About 15 years ago, somebody there from Seattle, Washington gave a friend and me a videotape of Seattle, Washington and the rest is history, but it never lead to a job with www.microsoft.com .  Well at least with the higher prices of gasoline we do not have to drive all of the way over to White Plains, New York anymore.   There were also a few people there from www.sears.com , www.usatoday.com , www.yale.edu , and www.usma.edu , and www.coned.edu  , so even before the internet we knew how to network in this area by pub crawling.  Since I could only afford the $5 cover charge, I generally would just drink a $2 www.perrier.com , but from what I could tell White Plains, New York got busier, and not much new happened in Greenwich, Connecticut.   I think most of the air traffic I hear goes over to White Plains, New York, but near the airport near www.pepsi.com , I think amongst their vast holdings the Rockefellers also have the Doral Arrowwood Resort - Rye Brook, New York - Westchester County NY , and I use to see some of their people at the pub along with a few students from SUNY Purchase Purchase College .   However, the New York Educational System is so vast, nobody seemed to know me from www.nyu.edu and www.columbia.edu , so I am still pretty just a ghost in the night.   The Rockefellers have a research university in Manhattan www.rockefeller.edu for Nobel Laureates, but although I have been there many times, nobody tries to network with me there, and the last time I was there 15 years ago, I was mugged by New York University student from Bermuda www.bermuda.com , so I quit going to Manhattan, and technically Nantucket www.nantucket.net and www.bermuda.com are still at war and any of those bigger countries are not invited to join in.   Since I have had family that lived in Bermuda, when they could not afford to live here, possibly I have some sort of Bermuda connection, but Bermuda is such a tiny island like Nantucket, if I tried to live there, I might get cabin fever and start enjoying the local hospitality at the local pubs, but if I did that here, my computer systems would definitely go down the tubes.   I found out today that the The Delamar on Greenwich Harbor next to Welcome to RBSGC.com charges $300 a night for a single room on the street side to $800 a night for a suite on the harbor side with balcony and a fireplace and a view of the Sewer Plant, and they might have even more deluxe accommodations, but you would have to check with them.   I think they are now a five star hotel, so they are now more upscale than the Showboat Motel that was once there.  CIO   

Note:<888> 01/13/07 Saturday 3:20 A.M.:   I chatted with a friend before going to bed.   I woke up at 12:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I installed the XP Home updates on the vintage Toshiba laptop computer and then the XP backup program.   It will not do an ASR backup in XP Home, but one can do a regular backup which is pretty much the same, so I am backing it up to the Bytecc External hard drive, and since it is a USB 1.0 port, it will take a couple of hours.   Thus all of my six computers will be backed up to the two external hard drives.   The first thing they teach one in computers is "GIGO", "Garbage In Garbage Out",  and the second thing that teach one in computers is "Backup, Backup, Backup!"  I think the Vintage Toshiba laptop which I maintain but hardly ever use is about 400 MHz with 192 megs. of Memory running XP Home Edition.  It has a 6.5 gigabyte hard drive which had bad irrecoverable sectors, so I partitioned it with XP into two separate partitions bypassing the bad sectors.   It is not worth installing a new hard drive, since the overall Toshiba laptop is rather slow, but it would be good enough for web browsing and email and blogging if one were traveling.   It also has an 8.011G card for wireless use.    It was manufactured in 1999 and it is a Toshiba Satellite 2590CDT that I bought a few years ago at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop for $5 with the defective hard drive that I fixed, and it also had its memory unseated which I fixed, and I installed a licensed copy of Windows  XP Home Edition on it and configured it and also installed the LAN card for $5 and the Netgear 108 MBps Wireless PC Card Model WG511T which cost $26, and it cost me $10 to get the product key for XP Home for which I had the XP Home CD that came with another computer, so in all I have $46 invested in it, and a bit of time which by today's standards is not a whole lot of money, but by my standards it is.  If I decided to maintain it more, a new battery for it, if it needed one would cost about $50, but I just leave it plugged in and charged up.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/12/07 Friday 3:45 P.M.:  If you need to backup XP Home Edition, try http://kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_backup.htm .   I went out after the last message, and I picked up my mail, and I chatted with some neighbors.   The 3 Panasonic cordless telephone handsets belt clips arrived.  I put two of them on the two Panasonic cordless handsets, and I put the spare one in the left top drawer of the mahogany bureau.   I made my usual round of daily briefly telephone calls.     I did not bother one friend whom investigates race horses, because he asked me not to call him at work.   However, one relative told me about two horses being shot by poachers in their area of Florida.  I told a number of people including the Key West Hotel Resorts & Florida Keys Beach Accommodations - Casa Marina Resort Key West about the potential worse upcoming hurricane season with El Nino BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | New El Nino sparks weather fears  and the warmer Atlantic waters, there might be a more intense hurricane season coming up http://mikelouisscott.com/weather.htm and http://geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .   However the BBC says it might be less.  I guess some of us will have to wait and see.  Weather here seems normal for this time of year here Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .  Lots of airport traffic today Westchester County - AirportMonitor - by Megadata - powered by PASSUR , so maybe people are coming back for the weekend here instead of going down South.   With the traveling public, one never knows.  NetJets - Fractional Aircraft Ownership - Aircraft Charter - Private Jet Sales uses the local airport, if you want to hob nob with probably the world's most well traveled community.  Even the stay at home arm chair travelers types like me Greenwich, Connecticut Armchair Travelers seem to have been most everywhere they need to go by modern world's standards.   Maybe a lot of the Hollywood types are traveling to Europe for Carlo Ponti's funeral.   He was probably like the Godfather of the Movie industry.   I wander it I ever saw them around when I was living in Italy or traveling around the world.   I know Sophia Loren once ate at the restaurant Boodles with Joseph E. Levine when I was working there .  When I came back to Greenwich, Connecticut I had a view of his house from my small apartment on Steamboat Road.   I once read that they had two twin sons and lived in Fisher's Island, Florida, and that she owned about 10 years ago about $5 billion dollars in Italian Renaissance Art that she was not allowed to take out of Italy, so she was probably cash short when she traveled.   She has her own web site The Official Sophia Loren Site .  However, most Italian women tend to get heavier when they get older, so it is hard to tell what she looks like today.    Why Italian Women Don't Get Fat | Food & Wine .  However, when I lived in southern Europe, I saw a lot of fat women.  Maybe now that she is a widow, she might show up a bit more in public.  To stay thin this might be helpful Amazon.com: Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother's Tokyo Kitchen: Books: Naomi Moriyama,William Doyle .   I will now do a Vista Complete PC backup, and then I will shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   Have a good day.  I also ate four 1/3rd inch by 1.5 inch by 1.75 inch slices of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/12/07 Friday 12:05 P.M.:  I vacuumed the apartment.   I chatted with a relative.  I will now do some regular computer work.  Bargains Newegg.com - LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with 12X DVD-RAM Write Black IDE - OEM .  Sold out Newegg.com - Kingston Standard 2GB Secure Digital (SD) Flash Card - Retail .  Travel Guides - Look Up Weather for Your Destination .  Bank Of England Tightens - Forbes.com .  Virgin: 'Let Me Fly' - Forbes.com .  I chatted with a Microsoft Tech representative that called up.   CIO         

Note:<888> 01/12/07 Friday 8:45 A.M.:   I made and ate the same primary meal as yesterday.   I will now do some regular computer work.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/12/07 Friday 7:50 A.M.:   I showered, and I cleaned up after the last message.   I went out, and I went to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I used a $2 dollar bill that I had to make sure my checking account has enough for the bank charge at the end of the month.   I was sent the new $2 bill a few years ago for filling out a medical survey from Philadelphia, Pa..   It was a new $2 bill with Thomas Jefferson on it with a Federal Reserve Bank from Atlanta, Georgia seal on it.   I then went by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I picked up my regular prescription, which the State of Connecticut Medicaid program pays for.   I then went to my usual 3 P.M. appointment.   I then returned home.   I chatted with somebody at the bank from Toronto, Canada.   I noticed they have finally taken down the artwork on a hand grenade on East Putnam Avenue near the bank, and they now have brown paper covering the windows.   I am not sure if the shop is going be occupied or not.   I had chatted earlier in the week with a Bank of New York Security official about what I did not think was user friendly to a family community.   After I returned home, I gave a neighbor two cigarettes.   I ate four scoops of cheese cake ice cream.   I then went to bed about 5 P.M..  I woke up at 2 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I did my usual house cleaning and watering the plants.  I have not done the vacuum cleaning, but I will do it after 9 A.M., when I figure any neighbors will be awake.    I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.   I noticed somebody had left an empty bottle of Ballentine Ale by the side door, which I also threw away.   I think when I was in Fort Lauderdale, Florida back in the fall of 1976 when Joseph Coors III was the head lifeguard there, I also met somebody with the last name Ballentine who told me they owned Ballentine Ale.   When I use to drink beer in the old days, I used to drink many different beers, and I recall at one time I did drink Ballentine Ale.   I also used to drink Colt 45 Malt Liquor, Budweiser, Michelob, Busch, Schlitz, Schlitz Malt Liquor, Miller, Grolsch, Carling Red Cap, Heineken, Ringness, Molsons, Carlsberg, Carlsberg Elephant Beer, Tuborg, John Adams, Pabst, Rolling Rock, Becks, St. Pauli Girl, St. Pauli Girl Dark Beer, Beck's Dark Beer but since I have given up drinking liquor and beer and wine, I have some five year old or more Kennebunkport Shipyard beers and ale, St. Pauli Girl Dark beer, and I think I have a chilled six pack of Lindener Spezial from Germany, but I am not sure if they are any good.  Out in Illinois and around my Illinois family we all drank quite a bit of Pabst Blue Ribbon in the old days, and I use to use their malt syrup to make beer.   I hate to tell the traveling automobile public in the suburbs whom do not drink much alcohol anymore for safety reasons driving cars, there are still quite a few people whom do not own cars particularly those in urban environments that seem to still drink beer, wine, and other alcoholic refreshments.   Also the tourists in this area like all tourists traveling probably still indulge.   I recall when Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip were last in Washington D.C. during former President Bush's tenure better known as Prisoner 41, the Secret Service were sent out during their luncheon to get some beer for Prince Phillip, so more than likely he still enjoys a beer or two.   Since he is usually chauffer driven, one does not have to worry about him drinking and driving.   I also remember, we have several wholesale beer outlets in Port Chester, New York with one just west of Cumberland Farms on U.S. 1, the Port Chester Beer distributors with a wide variety of beers across from the old Life Saver Factory condominiums, and of course the new www.costco.com would have lots of beer by the case including www.heineken.com  .   Maybe Fred Von Mierers http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm was the younger Freddie Heineken touring Manhattan.   The Van Munching family use to live in the Belle Haven section of Greenwich, Connecticut, and they distributed Heineken in this country, and the Brooks family up on around Round Hill Road use to have the distributorship for Heineken for the entire United States military, so more than likely somebody makes money off of Heineken.   I recall Freddie Heineken retired from the Netherlands to Jamaica, so if he showed up here, he would be a bit tanned.   When I was in Amsterdam, I stayed next to the Heineken brewery, and I noticed they sell it in much larger bottles for the much larger Dutch people.   I am currently not flying the large flags including the large Dutch flag in the apartment, since I like to display the bookcases contents with their books.   I think I gave my small Dutch flag to a relative in Kennebunkport, Maine.   I noticed a few summers ago, somebody was flying a very large Dutch flag on the point in Ogunquit, Maine.   I still have pictures displayed of Dutch Royalty, and I think I have a couple of old Heineken coasters I had when I originally moved into the apartment.   The current flag display is more Northern Europa - The European Union On-Line without the Dutch and British flags hogging the show.   I will now do some regular computer work.   When I have funds, I can buy a small Dutch flag at the Greenwich Hardware store for $4 and .24 tax for $4.24 total.  Of course back in the old days the big 3 foot by 5 foot Dutch flag that I still have only cost about $10 from the 70% off rack, as did the Saudi Arabian Flag.   I think the big British Flag was $15 from the Merry Go Round Mews Thrift Shop, and the bigger Cross of St. Andrews Scottish flag was $20 this past summer, and the U.S. Air Force flag was about $10 at 3 foot by 5 foot both from the Greenwich Hardware store, and the Swedish flag was a $1.50 at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I think the large U.S.A. flag was $15 at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.    I have an even larger cloth U.S.A. 49 star flag that was $3 at the New Canaan, Connecticut Visiting Nurse thrift shop that I bought just before I went down to former President Bush's inaugural back in 1989, so more than likely Mrs. Garlin who sold it to me there might have a few bargains, but everything has gone up a lot more over the years.  The New Canaan, Connecticut Visiting Nurse thrift shop is across the street from the New Canaan Fire House, and there is a thrift shop at the Congregational Church in Southport, Connecticut as there is another thrift shop on the post Road in Darien and there is a thrift shop near the Tillamann and Frost real estate office in Wilton, Connecticut, and there is of course the Rummage Room thrift shop in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.  Of course gasoline to go to those places would probably cost more than it would cost to order items off of Ebay, and the prices at those places would not be much cheaper anymore, if they had anything that one wanted.  CIO        

Note:<888> 01/11/07 Thursday 11:55 A.M.:  I watched a program on the History Channel about stranded sailors from Connecticut in the Sahara Desert during the early 19th Century.  One of them was named Riley which happens to be the name of a friend of mine from Connecticut.    I threw out some garbage.   I resigned my lease for this year with the Greenwich Housing Authority Representative downstairs.  I picked up my mail.   White House fever in Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd says he's running for president - CNN.com .  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.   I guess I will now make my bed, and I will shower and clean up, so I feel a little bit more presentable.    I am still recovering from the Clementine mold poisoning, so I really do not have to much energy or money to be downtown before or after my appointment.   I need to pick up a prescription at CVS on Greenwich Avenue before I go to my 3 P.M. appointment.   I have to get a couple of quarters change at the bank, so I can afford to park downtown at CVS.   Not really much happening in this neck of the woods.   I was told last Thursday evening Friday morning, when I was at CVS at the Riverside Shopping Plaza that they are going to build a new 24 hour CVS in the hole in the ground near me at Weaver Street and West Putnam Avenue across the street from the United Jewish Appeal fund.  When they do that I will not have far to go when I need to go to CVS, but I will still need to go downtown for food.  Now it is not even safe to carry change Pocketful of espionage: Beware the spy coins - CNN.com .  I am reasonably sure due to my technical expertise in certain fields I have been pretty much tracked by the U.S. and other governments most of my life.  I received an invitation to Surviving Cybercrime: What Lies Ahead RSVP , but I can not afford to go to Manhattan, but I did use to get my haircut at the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan, and I attended Thomas Watson's www.ibm.com daughter's Susan's coming out party at the St. Regis Hotel back in summer of 1972 with my youngest sister and Ginny Warburg from the egg farm in back country Greenwich, Connecticut.   Ginny's father as I recall use to fly with Eddie Rickenbacker Eddie Rickenbacker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia during World War I, so more than likely I have met one or two other U.S. Air Force people.   Alas, I could never afford to learn to fly a plane, but I hear tell computers supposedly fly planes today, but with the frequencies I have had computer problems recently, I would generally prefer to have a couple of pilots on board in case the computers malfunction.  I think Eddie Rickenbacker had something to do with Eastern Airlines also in the old days like Charles Lindberg was involved with Pan American Airlines.   Jimmy Eldert made a movie about being a pilot Amazon.com: Warbirds: Video: Ulli Lommel,James Eldert,Cully Holland,Bill Brinsfield,Timothy Hicks,Joanne Watkins,Rick Anthony Munroe,Stephen Quadros,David Schroeder,Don Hibdon,Javad Pishvaie,Ross Evans , but I am not sure whether he is a pilot or not.   I recall, I once dropped him off on an Eastern Airlines flight back north from Jacksonville, Florida to Manchester, New Hampshire, so he could return to college at the University of New Hampshire, when we were driving north, when he decided to fly home directly instead of driving after we visited with Hurley Haywood where Jimmy's cousins were going to school nearby.   Jimmy supposedly had 200 cousins that looked the same, so perhaps he was part of Howard Hughes clones, if you get my drift.  Interesting picture of Howard Den eksentriske milliardæren! .  However, this is the picture that most people remember Howard Hughes .   For all I know when I stayed at Fred's apartment at 420 East 49th Street, it was actually Howard Hughes' apartment, but I do not think Fred Von Mierers was Fred Hughes, but Fred through Helen Kress Williams had a Texas connection.   I just noticed in the picture of Howard Hughes, he looks a little bit like Dezi Arnez, so maybe Howard Hughes was actually Cuban.  CIO   

Note:<888> 01/11/07 Thursday 7:50 A.M.:   Prolific producer with 'new vision' - Los Angeles Times .  I went through my email.   I will now put the iced tea in the refrigerator.    CIO

Note:<888> 01/11/07 Thursday 7:00 A.M.:  Since Jimmy Eldert spoke Spanish and English, he might have been from some other place besides Syracuse, New York like Spain or Argentina.   However, the last known address I had for him besides what is on the internet was C/O of Trevor Geoff at the Malibu Colony, in Malibu, California Malibu , so if he still lives there, this fire California Coastal Commission,City Council,Malibu Beaches Fire might have damaged his home, and he might have taken off traveling.   When I chatted with the fellow that looked like the King of Spain this past summer on Greenwich Avenue, he told me he had a house in Chile, and he was going to visit his daughter in school in Santa Monica nearby Malibu.   Thus possibly if he were still in Santa Monica, and since more than likely he would still remember Spanish, he possibly could get some Spanish speaking people to help out Jimmy in case Jimmy is in distress from the fire.  I once searched out Trevor Geoff, and he was a computer animator from Scotland, so maybe Jimmy Eldert is actually from Scotland.   He frequently would wear a yellow St. Andrew's University The University of St Andrews tee shirt in Nantucket with a Red Lion on it.  CIO   

Note:<888> 01/11/07 Thursday 6:35 A.M.:     While I was asleep, I had a telephone call from a friend not to call him in the day time while he is working.   I woke up at 10 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   I went outside, and I picked up the mail.   I chatted with a relative.   I went back to bed until 2 A.M..   I looked at some web sites on the internet.   I watched a short part of a movie.   I added some more speed dial numbers to my speed dial telephone numbers.   I ate two scoops of strawberry short cake ice cream.   I also washed the breakfast dishes.   I did not make my bed in case I want to take a nap this morning.   I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.   In the energy shortage times, one might as well stay home and use any extra energy to stay warmer in the winter instead of heating up the cast iron engine in one's automobile for no purpose.  I do need to drive my car every couple of days to keep the battery charged up.   If one has computer hacker problems one can try http://ic3.gov and mailto:abuse@cv.net .  I made and ate the same dinner as last night.   I also made up a batch of Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe , and I put a little chicken bullion seasoning in it also.   I also put half on the dinner plate with the hamburger and onions, and I put the other half in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.   As usual after each meal, I washed my breakfast dishes.   I chatted with Microsoft Security at 1-425-882-8080 about recent events.  I am making up a batch of Formula One http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm    I will now go through my email.  I have mentioned in my notes before that while I stayed at http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm 's apartment at 420 East 49th Street in Manhattan in the old days, on a cold night in the winter around 1975, we met a freezing Texan in Greenwich Village that looks like the current President www.whitehouse.gov , and we had breakfast at the Pink Tea Cup in Greenwich Village, and the Texan took refuge at Fred's apartment.   However, it would not be the current President, since back then President Bush would have been about 28 years old, and the fellow we met was about 30 to 40 years old.   However, Fred seemed to know the person, and he did not seem to know English too well, and since Fred had lived at the United States Embassy in Spain, possibly it was the King of Spain Juan Carlos I of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia who would have been 35 years old then.  Fred spoke Spanish too, but I am not sure it was the King of Spain or not.   I knew a Greek named Constantine in Greenwich Village, so maybe the King of Spain worked in New York a while.   I once read that Spanish police officers in New York City only make $50,000 a year, but that was around 1980.  Generally in the United Nations neighborhood www.un.org all of the politicians, royalty, dictators, and diplomats show up sooner or later.  I will now go through my email.  CIO      

Note:<888> 01/10/07 Wednesday 12:30 P.M.:  I napped a bit.   I chatted with a relative and a few associates.   I ordered this book for a relative Amazon.com: Albert Hadley: The Story of America's Preeminent Interior Designer: Books: Adam Lewis .   I had somebody from www.lfc.edu call up from Virginia Beach, Virginia about the alumni manual, which I can not afford to order.   They way I figure it the Clementines from Spain were delivered probably around Thanksgiving time, so probably by this time they are a little ripe.   One associate told me he knew of somebody that could inspect them for mold poisoning for $100, but I am not going to pay a $100 to inspect a $5 box of Clementines that I already threw away.  From what I can tell, it is Huntington Hartford's responsibility, and his telephone number might still be in the 1989 Social Register.   He has messed up so much I guess he had to move off Beekman Place, and he now lives on East 34th street, but for the uninformed I think a Clementine is pretty much the same as a tangerine, but it is slightly smaller and a little bit more sweeter.    The reason I know a little bit about mold poisoning is that when we were desperately poor, I made my apartment the official headquarters of the Pasteur Institute here, and they are experts in that field.   The Duke of Windsor liked them so much, he left all of his money to the Pasteur Institute after he took off traveling again.   He supposedly when he left England and France decided to try out being Emperor of India for a while, so he might have a few more followers than when he just stayed home and played Bridge most of the time with his wife and a few friends.   Billy Baldwin might know more since he knew the Duke of Windsor, and they looked a bit the same, but from what I can tell, he is like Fred Von Mierers lost in the world of travel.   I suppose once they come back to America, they will write some sort of memoir about their travels.   I have seen so many people from Asia show up in this neck of the woods, possibly they are trying their hands out at Interior Decorating in Asia.  The Asians tend to like a quiet environment, so possibly with all of the racket or noise from their interior decorating projects and renovations, the Asians came over here for some peace and quiet.  Actually since the United State of America does not have a very large population in terms of World Populations, and we are a quite large country area wise, the United States of America outside of the urban environments is a relative quiet country by noise standards.  I have noticed recently, I might be getting a little hard of hearing, so maybe I should think about using the CVS hear wax solution sometime to clean out my hears with the hot water and ear syringe.   There is not much going on now.   I am basically bankrupt as far as cash is concerned after paid all of my bills and making my major purchases this month, but I am pretty much stocked up on everything I need until next month.   I still have about $28 in food stamp money left for any additional food purchases.   I keep track of my inventory at http://mikelouisscott.com/inventory.htm .   However, I can not drive too much, or I would run out of gasoline, since I can not afford to buy gasoline.   However, I am not sure any gasoline is available anyway.   I could always walk out to West Putnam Avenue to see if any traffic is moving in this area, but this is the New York area, so there are always one or two cars moving around.   I am just trying to relax a bit after mold poisoning probably since last Thursday.   Basically having lived in the tropics of Florida, I am more immune to mold poisoning than people up north.   I think up north they call it Swamp Fever.   I think the natural cure of swamp fever is tobacco which is why wampum was the first thing the American Indians gave the Europeans.   In New England after they studied it for a while after burning a few witches whom were not witches but simply women with Iroquit Poisoning which is similar or the same as rye flour poisoning which comes from moldy rye flour.   I believe Niacimide is suppose to be good for it or Niacin or Nicotinic Acid from tobacco.  I currently have enough flush free Niacin from www.cvs.com to survive mold poisoning.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed for the day.    I chatted with a relative.  CIO       

Note:<888> 01/10/07 Wednesday 8:05 A.M.:  I ate two scoops of strawberry cheese cake.   I will now take a nap.   I am a bit tired after being awake 28 hours yesterday.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/10/07 Wednesday 8:00 A.M.:  A way for young physically fit young people to keep active Hot prospects needed Ranks thin at Round Hill Volunteer Fire Dept. - Greenwich Time .   I chatted with a friend.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/10/07 Wednesday 6:40 A.M.:  I went through my email.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/10/07 Wednesday 5:20 A.M.:  I was just thinking that since John Anderson who was the President of Union Carbide up in Danbury, Connecticut Union Carbide Corporation, and he lived here in Greenwich, Connecticut when the Bhopal, India disaster happened Bhopal disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .  The only other connections I know about India is that Lowell Weicker's mother was suppose to have been born in India.  Also the day that somebody shot at me at Tod's Point in late May about six years ago when I was at Tod's Point, I chatted with Dr. Palai from India who wears a black turban shortly before on by the pier on Steamboat Road, and after I met with him and chatted with him, I drove over to Tod's Point, and somebody took a shot at me with a high powered rifle with florescent orange target markers placed in the area.  Unfortunately, although I live in Connecticut myself and none of my family have anything to do with Union Carbide, and from what I can tell, my fathered worked for Chemstrand a subsidiary of www.monsanto.com from 1955 to 1967, and they made synthetic fibers acrylan and nylon.   Monsanto made have had agricultural business in India, but we were not involved in it.  From what I know the Agah Khan showed up in this area as High Commissioner of Refugees at the United Nations www.un.org from 1988 to 1998, and his official residence is suppose to be New Delhi, India, but his family has had a residence here in Greenwich, Connecticut on French Road since 1922, and his grandfather later started the www.un.org with John D. Rockefeller's help.   It is all rather strange that they would bother me, and unless somebody would want to set me up for some unknown reason.   Needless to say having somewhat shoot at me disrupted my normal lifestyle pattern.   I would not normally have spent so many years sitting around the area of the Greenwich, Connecticut police station, unless I thought there was some sort of security problem.   Basically, about the only thing I know about Union Carbide is that I occasionally buy their Prestone Antifreeze for my cars.   I think they once made flash light batteries too.   I put about 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli crowns in a Revere pot with steamer tray and an inch of water and lid, and I steamed them for 15 minutes on medium high electric burner heat.  For the last 10 minutes I put a few tablespoons of olive oil in a 10 inch stick proof frying pan with a few pads of margarine, and I heated it medium high electric burner heat.   I then put in an eight ounce hamburger in the frying pan and a medium large onion peeled and sliced into 1/4 inch thick slices, and I seasoned the burger and onions on both sides with garlic pepper, ground black pepper, and chicken and meat seasoning, and I cooked them on medium to medium high electric burner heat flipping them frequently for about 4 minutes a side, and for the last two minutes, I put on a couple of teaspoons of Kikkoman soy sauce and on top of the burger I put six 1.5 inch by 2 inch by 1/8th inch thick slices Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese, and I put a lid on, and I steamed the cheese for a couple of minutes.   I then put the vegetables in a bowl with a little bit of olive oil on them.   I put the burger on a dinner plate with the sautéed onions over them, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a person that speaks English.  CIO      

Note:<888> 01/10/07 Wednesday 3:50 A.M.:    On this past Thursday night, I bought a 5 pound box of Clementines from Spain at the Riverside Shopping Center Food Emporium.   It is my perception that I got some sort of mold poisoning from them, but the last two boxes of Clementines that I have bought after a couple of days, there has been only one clementine covered in mold which would lead me to beloved that they had some sort of mold poisoning.   The first box of clementines that I bought this season of three boxes that I bought was from Morocco, and the second and third ones were from Spain.  If it is not the mold on the clementines, it could be some sort of chemical pesticide in that part of the world that they use.    Generally in the United States of America one has to be careful of imported foods, and I have been told that even in Mexico, they still use large amounts of DDT.   Whatever the case, I can not afford to buy the more expensive organic produce.    It is still fairly obvious that two days ago someone came into my apartment while I was out and tampered with my computers, so possibly they also tampered with a clementine.   When a clementine which is a soft fruit is crushed in packing it leaks the sweet fruit juice over the other packed clementines the sugary juice when exposed to warmer environments can product mold.   I think in England, they call it fruit and jelly mold poisoning.   It seems rather odd that only one clementine in each of the two boxes from Spain were completely moldy while the others continued to look fresh.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/10/07 Wednesday 2:15 A.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.   I was awake at 10:30 P.M..  I noticed the in the kitchen some of the clementines that I had bought recently at the Food Emporium where covered with fruit mold, so more than likely that mold virus is what kept me awake for 28 hours yesterday.   I threw out the clementines and bananas, since more than likely they had the content of the mold inside of them.   I picked up my mail.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee. I made a few telephone calls and left a couple of messages.   I will now do some regular computer work.   Possibly in this area a Mafia type group is working this area out of Brooklyn pretending to have contacts with Pfizer which is also out of Brooklyn.   Since Pfizer was pretty much started with James Fleming's discovery of Penicillin during World War I in Scotland, more than likely there are a few Anglophile people in this area going back and forth between Pfizer and Brooklyn while we basically see the Brooklyn mob come back in our direction.   Obviously some of them have taken residence up in this area.   I am told a great many of the Greenwich Hospital employees are from Brooklyn.   What ever the case, they seem to have a separate agenda, and none of them seem to have the professional level to deal with me directly in terms of what I do with computers.   I do not know much about medicine, so I do not deal with many of the medical people anymore.   Basically they all act like they are all waiting for me to die, and I am actually quite healthy, so they will probably have a long wait and more than likely they will be retired by the time I am pushing up tulips.   CIO   

Note:<888> 01/09/07 Tuesday 3:45 P.M.:  I made a few courtesy telephone calls.   I do not have much else to report.  Around 11 P.M., one of the delivery services www.ups.com arrived and delivered Barnes & Noble.com - Books: 2007 Spirit of Horses Wall Calendar, by Leslie Harrison, Wall Calendar for $7.49 and  Barnes & Noble.com - Books: 2007 365 Days In Great Britain Wall Calendar, by Philip Hoffhines, Wall Calendar for $6.47 and $4.98 standard delivery charge less 5% discount using this link Barnes & Noble.com - Fortune Magazine Store Front  of .71 and $1.10 tax for $19.33 total, tracking is UPS: Tracking Information .   I hung the England calendar on the right closet door in the living room.  I hung the new horse calendar on the refrigerator door, and I moved the other horse calendar that I had bought to the sweater closet door.   I do not look at the calendar pictures ahead of time, so each month in a surprise.   For January 2007, England is advertising Edinburgh, Scotland where Tony Blair lives at Blair Castle or maybe his grandfather does.   When I called www.whitehouse.gov an older gentleman with a Dutch Accent from Manhattan answered the telephone, so maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt is still volunteering around Washington D.C., he certainly would know his way around town.   I keep telling people that television is entertainment and not reality.  To know what really goes on in the world, one needs some sort of government information, which we do not get too much of around here.   I told Franklin about Ema MacDonald worrying about her land grant in Western Canada.  I guess nobody is around the White House, so the retired volunteers keep and eye on it while the Presidents now travel frequently, since the mostly seem to be pilots anymore.   The Bank of New York said Panasonic would cancel one of the debit charges for $8.11 before it goes through.   I think I have been awake for 27 hours, so possibly somebody came into my apartment yesterday and put something in my liquid refreshment which would be against the law.   However, the local people here anymore seem to think they are above the law for some reason.   We obviously have enough chemists in the area to figure it out.   I have a feeling whom every is behind all of this activity is one of those circus people that comes into this area, when the more conservative Old Guard leave this area for their southern excursions.   However, with the War on, we still have some of those Old Guard looking types around keeping an eye on the area, while the younger generation is away in other activities.  It is my viewpoint that so much of the aviation aircraft is being used for the war effort, if I am invited down to Florida this winter, I might have to take Amtrak, which means I would only sneak cigarettes at station platforms during stops for two days.   I am basically afraid to fly anymore, since I figure that since Delta Airlines is $20 billion in debt they might not be up to proper maintenance standards, and since I enjoy train travel, I might try it as an adventure.  However, I am such an introverted computer person anymore, I do not have much to chat with about with strangers, so I guess I could take the laptop and write a web log.   The nice thing about the train though is that if you have to go to bathroom frequently, one has a roomy place to go to the bathroom.   However, in the company of strangers, I would tend not to sleep for two days, which would be exhausting.  I also would have to get from Orlando to Vero Beach, Florida, but I would not have to pay for an expensive livery vehicle from here to Kennedy airport which is suppose to be safer, since they have longer runways.   Driving oneself is not worth it, since it is too expensive anymore, and I do not need a car when I am down there.   Well, I have not yet been invited, so I do not know whether I will be going down in February or not.   It is my perspective from a northern viewpoint some of the old guard are still lingering in this area, since the weather is a bit more comfortable than they are use to.    Since the Old Guard like to monopolize the downtown on nice days for social and business purposes, and since I am not good at going out on rainy days or damp days because of arthritis, I do not get out very much anymore.   Also when ever I go out, it seems somebody comes into my apartment and disrupts my computer activity via stealthful means.   Thus the individual whomever it is must have accomplices in this area, or the individual looks like me and drives a car like mine.   I know a former neighbor of Richard Nixon who is an unemployed actor, and he looks a bit like me.   Since his house burned down in the Malibu Colony in California yesterday, he might be back in this area with whomever he worked for in the Malibu Colony.   Since he was not too good of an actor, he actually makes a living as the hair dresser to the stars, so that is how he knows them.   Since back in the recession of 1982, I knew one of the Vogue Magazine hair dressers in Manhattan, and since he got over a thousand dollars a day from celebrities, he earned quite a bit of money all of which went to lifestyle expenses.   Since he was a native Florida person, I felt he should not waste his time with such trivial pursuits as hair, and spend more time on activities relating to Florida, but Vogue magazine over ruled me.  At the time I did not need a hair cut, and since it was 26 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in Manhattan at the time, and since my room mate had kicked me out of the apartment I stayed at Bobby's apartment and met some of his friend on the east side that Fred did not know.  He had one friend that lived across the hall from Greta Garbo.   Since I am not in to Hollywood stuff in particular, I was amused when Bobby told me he was going down to St. Barth's for a fashion shoot for Vogue, since he was being advertised by them as a British aristocrat in their magazine.   Since I already knew Conde Nast had been out here, I went down to Key West, just to see what the same New York City people were doing down there.   Needless to say with large numbers of people from Manhattan in Key West, don't you think certain representatives of other less known New York organizations might show up to observe them.   Unfortunately the local Florida authorities did not cooperate with me, since they needed the money from the New Yorkers.   Unfortunately for them my superior agreed with me.  In an entertainment media, one might pretend to break the law, but in particular in South Florida around the U.S. Military where most everyone carries a gun, one tends not to break the law as an unarmed civilian.  Basically from what I can analyze from the New York media, the gas smell in Manhattan smelled like Maple Syrup, but since I have been awake now for 28 hours, it might be some sort of nerve gas agent that keeps the general population awake for a prolonged period, so that when they finally collapse from exhaustion and fall asleep, they will be more susceptible to invasion.  Unfortunately that does not work too well with Big City Urban people, since they sleep so much of the time, they end up having a higher threshold of endurance to such a nerve gas.   In World War II, submarine commanders would spend months awake at a time with intermittent 20 minute cat naps.  I unfortunately am somewhat tired after 28 hours awake, so I will try to get some rest.  I reheated and ate the other half of the rice I made yesterday.  I am doing just fine, so do not worry about me.  CIO       

Note:<888> 01/09/07 Tuesday 8:15 A.M.:  I ate three scoops of strawberry cheese cake ice cream.  I left a couple of messages with a friend of mine who use to be Helen Clay Frick's next door neighbor in Bedford, New York, be he started looking for greener pastures.   A small point of trivia for some old guard republicans in this area TCPalm: News Richard Nixon birthday January 9, 1913 .  If Richard Nixon were still around today, he would still be excellent at doing tax returns, since as a legislator, he wrote most of the tax laws, and by profession he was a Tax Attorney.   I think he would be a little bit better than Loop Hole Larry or whomever you are using now.  It is sort of amusing that he was born on the same day as David Bowie TCPalm .  Come to think of it http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm looked a little bit like David Bowie, so maybe they were related.   I do know Fred occasionally was seen with Mic Jagger, before I ran into him again in 1973.  Of course Fred does not remember me from the good old days in Boston of high tech nerds around Polaroid.   What do you think a well brought up young man would be doing in Boston in that period having been well connected with Beverly Farms, Massachusetts.  Only the Lowells and the Lodges might know, but more than likely he was living off of some blue chip stocks from some company which suddenly became very profitable for a while.   There is one very old company on the North Shore of Boston that every one use to pretty much know, but many of us have long since forgotten that was quite profitable in the old days.   Now if one were to look at this picture http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm and Paul Revere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia they have the same arching eye brows which is a unique family characteristic.  Thus besides being 14th generation Dutch New York, he might have been descended from a Boston Silver Smith, so make sure they ain't hanging no lanterns in any of our church towers.   In New England in the old days, they had a group of volunteer militia called the Minute Men Brandywine Battlefield: Who Were the Minutemen? .   Thus they much have branched out into the Revere Copper bottom cooking pot business after silver became too expensive.   Revere would have been in this area, because Silver use to be found in this area at one time.   CIO        

Note:<888> 01/09/07 Tuesday 5:55 A.M.:   I was awake at noon yesterday.   I picked up my mail, and the Panasonic headset from Amazon.com: Used and New: Panasonic KX-TCA92 Hands-free Headset with Comfort Fit and Fold Design for $12 and $4.99 shipping coming from the New York area for $16.99 total arrived in the mail today.  I hooked it up the Panasonic handset in the kitchen.   It works just fine.   I straightened out a OOK nail, and I nailed it to the side of the blue bookcase to hang the headset on, and I leave it plugged into the handset, so it is convenient to use.   Once I get the belt clips, one will be able to travel around the apartment with it hands free.   I have it set on Voice Enhancement for the two handsets which give only 3 hours of battery life between recharges instead of the maximum six hours without Voice enhancements.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I chatted with a relative whom is under a bit of stress from my reports to the relative, so I have to remember not to make stressful reports to that relative.   I showered, and I cleaned up.  I met my new neighbor and her parents, and she is a Greenwich Library worker, so she now knows where I live.  We also have a retired Greenwich Library worker in this building also.   Thus having spent so many years in the library, I keep about 500 books around the apartment that I have not read most of in case, I ever get a time to read a book anymore.  However the books and records underneath the stereo system are dangerous to read and play, because they support the entire stereo system to keep it from collapsing which might be uncomfortable if one were sitting in front of it.   I went out, and I have not driven my car in a while, and the alarm system seems to run down the battery in a few days, so I tried jump starting it with the new jump start system, but it did not work, so I was finally able to jump start it with the Slaymaker jump start system which also has a new battery in it.   The new jump start system might not have worked, even though it says it is fully charged, possibly because the reset button on the back needed to be reset, so I reset it later on, and hopefully next time it will work.   When jump starting a car, one is suppose to put the red positive cable on the positive terminal, and the negative on a piece of grounding metal on the car, which with the shorter cables on the jump start system on my Volvo is difficult, so I jumped the black negative cable off the negative terminal.   I then let the car idle for a while.   I then drove the short distance about 2 miles to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I noticed they still have the picture of the hand grenade in the window of the abandoned art gallery, but I have not looked closely to see if it is occupied.   A fellow walker told me it is just modern art.   I had to turn the car off at the bank, but it started when I came out.   I also had to get my new checking account bank routing number, since when J. P. Morgan Chase bought the retail operations of Bank of New York, they changed the bank routing numbers.   I need the correct bank routing number for my most recent www.newegg.com payment to go through on my account.  I had chatted with www.newegg.com about why the payment had not gone through yet before I left the house.  Their payment center is in Florida, so I chatted with them a little bit about the old days of Egghead Software, and I think www.paulallen.com now owns it.   I then went by the Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority at the drive up teller.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and I viewed the mostly inactive waterfront.   I then went to my usual 4 P.M. appointment.   After that I drove up Lake Avenue to Close Road and west on Close Road to Round Hill Road and back down Round Hill Road to charge up my car battery.  Not much I could see happening in back country but more stone houses, but I am not sure if they are completely stone or just stone facades.  I guess with all of the rocks in Connecticut it is cheaper to build in stone.   They are not large houses by European manor standards, but they are all that New Yorkers seem to need for simple retreats in the suburbs on weekends and summer outings.  I suppose a few people live in them year round, when they get tired of the city.   I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought a dollar scratch card called  Stocking Stuffer, but I did not win anything.  I chatted with a Greenwich Avenue regular whom once was a life guard at our local beaches.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I stopped by CVS and toured the store.   I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time which seems awfully thin recently.   I noticed the art gallery has an exhibit on bird prints, which I would like to see, but it was closed.   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a top round roast at half price for $1.99 a pound $11.12, a six pack of Stop and Shop plain bagels for $2, a one pound bag of baby carrots for $1.79, and a head of Andy Boy broccoli  at $1.49 a pound for $1.65 for $16.56 total.    I chatted with another shopper that we use to use Andy Boy lettuce and produce in Nantucket 30 years ago, so Andy Boy is probably a grandfather by now.    I then returned home, and there was a yearling deer in front of the parking area when I was parking,  and I then chatted with a relative, so as not to disturb the relative.   I ate the same meal as the last few days, and that was the last of the cold eye round of beef.   I then cut the eye round roast into one to two inch cubes, and I put about 1/6th of it at a time in the Cuisine Art machine with its regular blade, and I chopped it into hamburger with about 8 pulse grinds of a few seconds each stirring in between two three grinds.   I put the chopped meat on a plate as I ground a couple batches at time, and I used the kitchen scale to weigh out 8 ounce amounts of the chopped meat.   I then hand formed each 8 ounce portion of chopped meat into have 1.5 inch thick round hamburger patties.   I made 12 all together.   I put four in a large flat Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.   I then put two each side by side in Zip Lock bags with most of the air compressed out, and then I put them in a second Zip lock bag with the air compressed out to prevent freezer burn.  I then put them in the freezer, so I have 8 eight ounce frozen hamburgers.   I left a message with a relative.   I turned on the primary computer, and it seemed to have been tampered with plus the motion detection software on the server had been turned off.   It would seem my computer systems had been tampered with and the apartment had been entered into while I was out on my errands.   Thus I will have to increase the security around the apartment.   I also noticed later on this morning a mosquito in my toilet, so possibly somebody entered my apartment from a warmer area of the planet in their traveling escapades.   I explained to a relative that what I do in maintaining this apartment and is quite time consuming and in terms of computer time quite expensive to employ a skilled professional, and if I find out whom it is, I could bill them like any other business person would do for theft of services.   I restored my primary computer backup, and I restarted the server.   I chatted with a local security group a couple of times.   I paid my www.newegg.com bill once again.   I later noticed that Panasonic billed me a second time for the $8.11 expense for the three Panasonic belt clips, thus they will cause my bank account to be overdrawn, which I would rather not happen.   The Panasonic receipt says that I am not suppose to be billed until shipped, but it seems so far in their computer accounting, they billed me when I ordered the three belt clips and again today, so hopefully the computer systems will figure it out, so I will not have to make another time consuming trip to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street while some intruder messes up my computer systems.   Since I have not told anyone the CMOS password or written it down, all that I can figure out is the BIOS manufacturer in Norcross, Georgia which now owns both American Megatrends and Award Bios has some sort of universal password, they can use to hack into a shut down computer and mess it up.   I would not put it past those nitwits from Georgia Tech.  Remember that song, "The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia".  If you do not think I know how to do that, just keep trying my patience.   We all know Delta flies regularly into Westchester County Airport, which I am five miles south of, so more than likely somebody off a Delta flight into the local airport is sneaking into my apartment at regular opportunities.   If they keep messing up computers around www.ibm.com , they might find out some day when  they are trying to use that airport that their computers on their plane navigation will not work, and more than likely they will be left with another airplane investigation.   From what I can tell, the number "811" is referred to here AGA | Field Report: The 411 on 811 and Vonage - Leading the Internet Phone Revolution 811 dialing .  If one were a serious computer person in this area of which there quite a few of in this area with www.ibm.com nearby, I would imagine the local IBM security personnel have finally intercepted the individual whom seems determined to keep messing up local individuals' computers in this area.   Since legally I would be considered a "Defense Contractor" in time of war, they could be tried by a Federal Court to the fullest extent of the U.S. Law under the Espionage Statutes during time of war, which is probably why the individual will never be seen around here again.   More than likely the agent coming out of the Atlanta, Georgia area flight area with what I know about the southeast of the United States of America would be an espionage agent of Fidel Castro's.   More than likely the agent is a Russian agent that looks a bit like me and masquerades his way into the area to mess up my local work and living arrangement.   I have quite a few friends whom owns dogs in this area, and if need be, I can invite them to house sit for me while I go out for my brief errands anymore.   Of course if the cats living next to Nelson Rockefeller that inherited the $60 million dollars in 1973 from the poor widow in Manhattan actually owned Microsoft www.microsoft.com , I would be in big trouble for keeping dogs around here.   CIO    

Note:<888> 01/08/07 Monday 2:35 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I have to pay my rent later on today, and I have a 4 P.M. appointment this afternoon.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/08/07 Monday 2:25 A.M.:  Legally with European Herpes EHV-1 Equine Virus running rampant in the state of Florida, every local and state municipality has the legal authority to stop and inspect any horse trailers traveling in their area or other farm transport vehicles to inspect for the virus, so it does not become more widely spread in this country, and much would be the same for horse transport into Canada or other neighboring countries.   I am not a veterinarian, so talk to one if you can afford one.  CIO 

Note:<888> 01/08/07 Monday 2:00 A.M.:  I thinks Fred's old telephone number the old days was 1-212-421-7420, but I could be wrong it was so long ago around 1975 I last answered that telephone so many times.  I figured out the first six digits by looking up Rodman Rock's number in the Social Register in the same neighborhood, so that might be the same number he used at East 54th Street his last know address.   George Cary claims he knows Rodman, so possibly the Rocks keep a horse or two too.  That was for the single line at 420 East 49th street at the ground floor apartment next to the Spatz apartment.   However, if one had a 1973 Social Register, it should be in there in case he kept the same telephone number.  Possibly since Fred has a lot of German contacts, the current German Chancellor White House Global Diplomacy and President Bush Welcomes Chancellor Merkel of Germany to the White House might need somebody to translate German for her while here and know where all the Germans seem to hang out.   I know there use to be a beer hall where the New York Library is currently located, so possibly they have a beer hall some where in Manhattan where they all still get together.   There use to be a lot of Germans around East 86th Street, and around West 72nd Street and around Chelsea in the Meat Packing District, but I am not sure whether that is still the case anymore.  Remember if you keep horses, there is one product which seems to grow very well in horse manure, and that is mint, which comes in handy at the Kentucky Derby Time http://www.kentuckyderby.com/ which as usual is suppose to be the first Saturday in May, which this year would be May 5, 2007, which is a few days before Jamestown 2007 - America's 400th Anniversary , so since the Queen of England Welcome to the official web site of the British Monarchy is suppose to be in Virginia for the 400th anniversary, maybe she will also make it to the Derby, since she is suppose to like horses.  Helen Kress Williams amongst her many charity happenings use to be the head lecturers for the Colonial Williamsburg Society, and she and Fred use to drive down to Virginia in her 1958 copper Chevrolet station wagon to lecture them.   I think she was also a member of the DAR, which is that building adjacent to the White House that looks a bit like the White House.  DAR stands for Daughters of the American Revolution for any of you whom have not been around that long.   Of course there is also the Sons of the American Revolution, but they do not seem to have gotten any money together to build a club house anywhere yet.  CIO        

Note:<888> 01/08/07 Monday 1:05 A.M.:   Current horoscope seems accurate:

For Taurus the Bull January 8 - 14, 2007:

The second week of 2007 could be quite intense. You may want to get some input from others on how you can resolve an ongoing issue at home. This could mean getting some kind of financial help, which would make life easier for you while you continue to manage this area of your life. Now that Jupiter is in Sagittarius, you will have a lot more luck when it comes to arranging loans or raising capital. You seem to be very determined that 2007 is not going to be as difficult to deal with as 2006.

Well, I have a 1989 Social Register in the apartment, and since I think it is published in Orange and Black in Princeton, New Jersey, and since I have unlimited long distance in the United States of America, Canada, and Puerto Rico, I could do like Fred Von Mierers and Helen Kress Williams did http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm and start calling people up in it to raise money for the "Old Guard".   Of course they knew all the right names to drop, and I do not think anyone who is conservative Old Guard would donate money to support a Dutch Scottish American living in Greenwich, Connecticut on the New York border watching it all come and go.   I still think it would be a better business policy to make New England part of Canada, and then we could set up Customs check points to inspect the traffic, and we could probably make a little bit of money off Duty Free liquor on this side of the Canadian border.   It would be better than driving over to New York to buy milk or whatever they seem to produce in that part of the country.   My local New York contact I chatted with today told me their family is driving a 13 year old car, so maybe somebody could try to sell them a new car.  My friend from Jay Peak, Vermont http://mikelouisscott.com/chris2000.jpg who now lives in New London, Connecticut told me they invested in a couple of horses to keep by the trailer in Vermont.   I guess he could probably hire Ian Greenshield to build him a barn, since Ian before he became Jackie Kennedy Onassis's bodyguard in Stowe, Vermont use to build barns in Vermont.  I think George Cary is still investigating the Race Horse Monopoly in New York State.   It seems the people in New York State make so much money, they can afford the Race Horse business as a tax write off against their gross income.   I sometimes wander if they transport anything else in their race horse vehicles if you get my drift.  There is not much else happening here, so I will now go through my email.   Of course if you start calling up people in the Social Register, they might tell some of their friends to start calling you, and then you would never get any rest.  When I use to answer the telephone for Fred in Manhattan, I would answer it 200 to 400 times a day, and I would just say he is out on a business appointment and take a name and telephone number.  Fred tended to ignore most of the people that called him up, and he would tell me the few people that were important, so I would remember who to give extra special attention to on the telephone.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/08/07 Monday 12:20 A.M.:  I made and ate the same dinner as last night.  I chatted with a relative.   I chatted with a friend in Sea Island, Georgia, and I told them there is nothing going on here with all of the rich people hiding out during the war.  I watched some local television, which seems to be mostly Chinese television, which I am not really use to watching.   I guess the Chinese since they make computer parts can afford to advertise their own content on cable television.  As far as I know not much is happening.   It is rather amusing how much a big stink the Chinese make in the media, but one hardly ever sees any of them, so from what I can tell, it is just another paper tiger, if you get my drift.   Well anyway, there is not much going on in this neck of the woods.   I guess the so called business people will have to go back to work this morning doing what ever they do to make money.   It is sort of amusing that with all of the local business people supposedly making lots of money off of whatever they do for work, the caliper of the local television programming is geared towards their children most of whom would be preteen adolescents.   Well, I will now do a little bit of computer work.   For now the computers seem to be running just fine.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/07/07 Sunday 9:45 P.M.:  I moved the teak Hawaiian pineapple to on top of the left entertainment case behind the Sony television in between the Budweiser beer stein and the Dutch beer stein along side the small German flag.   Speaking of hurricanes with the much warmer weather this year, it will mean warmer waters in the Atlantic ocean, so more than likely the upcoming Tropical Storm Season in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico area will be much more intense than last season.  Thus coming June 1, 2007, one should keep and eye out on http://mikelouisscott.com/weather.htm and http://geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .   A good alternative to the tropical storm season in the southeast is the southwest, but traditionally during times of El Nino there are heavy forest fires in the southwest from the drought that El Nino causes in that part of the country.   Thus it is six of one and a half dozen of another, unless one wants to be a little bit cooler up north with the higher prices of heating in the north country.   Right now in the Fairfield County area of Connecticut along the shore line, the temperatures have been moderate, so it has not been too bad so far this winter, if one can afford to get out and explore the area.  Remember not to buy any refurbished cars from last years hurricane activity in the New Orleans, Louisiana area, since once a car is flooded, it tends not be quite as good as a regular used car that has not been flooded.   However, for me walking around a lot of expensive foreign cars that nobody can afford to drive tends to be quite boring, so I do not walk in my own neighborhood but in the woman's shopping and financial area of downtown Greenwich Avenue, since 77% of the private money in the United States of America is controlled by women over 70 years of age, more than likely they like to shop for dresses and do their financial transactions at the same time, while the men sit around waiting to make some money fixing something that might need fixed.  CIO 

Note:<888> 01/07/07 Sunday 9:30 P.M.:  I thought about it, and I moved the two poinsettia plants to the mahogany bureau in the living room in front of the large pathos plant, so the poinsettia leaves do not fall on top of the electric radiators beneath the windows.   I moved the two hurricane glass candle shields to the window shelf with their small brass candle holders and candles.   I do not burn candles in my apartment, I just keep them for ornamentation.   I have plenty of backup lights with the jump start battery systems that have lights.   If once does not watch television all of the time, one can always think of ways of improving one's home environment instead of watching reruns all of the time from some place half way around the world, one will never visit.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/07/07 Sunday 9:05 P.M.:  I noticed when I came in the building the second time in the central hallway stair well, somebody had opened the window, which is not advisable since this time of year the electric heat is working in the central stair well as the other stair wells and building entrances.    I also noticed that somebody had used a candle to prop open the upstairs central stairway door, which is against the fire code, since stairway fire doors are suppose to remain closed on the stair wells.  I took the candle out, and I let the door close.   I chatted with a friend and a relative.   I took down the flags off my hallway bookcases, and I folded them up, and I put some of them in their boxes, and I put them in the lower Rubbermaid hamper in the bedroom.   I moved the light blue Swedish glass ball from in front of the Sony television, and I put it on top of the Williamsburg bean jar on the left side of the living room windows.   I moved the Buckingham Palace miniature model from the window shelf to on top of the CD rack underneath the Sony television.   I moved the small figurine of two brass horses to on top of the Cablevision box on top of the Sony television.   I moved the two poinsettia plants from on top of the Toshiba laptop on the brass and glass coffee table to the window shelf, so they are out of the way of the coffee table area.  I have to make sure that no dry leaves from the poinsettia plants fall on the electric radiators beneath them.  CIO

Note:<888> 01/07/07 Sunday 7:25 P.M.:   Earlier this morning, I ate eight 5/8th inch by 1.5 inch by 1/4 inch thick slices of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.   I also microwaved and ate a single portion bag of Orville Redenbacher's Home Page popcorn.   One has to take the smaller single portion bag out of the General Electric microwave oven earlier on the popcorn cycle or they will burn since they are smaller portions.   I threw out the garbage.  One of my neighbors threw away the two small poinsettia plants from the building hallway entrance when the took down the holiday decorations, so I brought them up to my apartment, and I put them on the White Star Line placemat on top of the Toshiba laptop computer on the brass and glass coffee table, and I also put two butter plates underneath them.  I do not use the Toshiba laptop very often, so the added poinsettia plant decorations on the brass and glass coffee table look very nice.   I will now do some regular computer work.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/07/07 Sunday 6:20 P.M.:  Possibly the confusion with me and my internet activity is this picture http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/mike-scott-picture-of-visitors-at-courchevel-1550-albertville-france-winter-olympics-1992.jpg of some unknown European that I took at the Winter Olympics in France back around 1992.   I remember after I took the picture the  Queen Mother of Belgium showed up at the same coffee shop where I was having coffee, so maybe the fellow to the right of the fellow in the red parka is somebody important that does not like to be photographed.  I woke up around 2 P.M..  I chatted with two relatives.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I had a telephone call from someone claiming to be from the www.fbi.gov , and they said I had to pay a visit to their local office, and when I asked them where the local office was, they hung up.   Call ID shows it came from a private number.   The caller said his name was Bob Scott from the FBI.   For all I know it is Bob Lee and some of his confederate henchmen working this area this time of year, when there is warmer weather.   We still could have those Irish Travelers from Murphyville, South Carolina pulling their usual con artist jobs in the area, since we have been having warmer weather.   Since I once lived next to the Sheriffs department in Greenville, South Carolina, more than likely somebody there would know something about them.   I chatted with a friend, and I was told they also pretend to be from Augusta, Georgia.   I did some routine computer maintenance.   I chatted with another friend.   I chatted with a local security agency.    Whenever I can afford to get a hair cut with shorter hair, sometimes people think I look like Bill Ford William Clay Ford, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , so since he is no longer President of Ford www.ford.com motor company, he might be in the area looking for a new job.   He supposedly has had to cut way back, and his family had to move from the upscale Grosse Point Farms, Michigan area to the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan.   Who knows maybe he could get a job at Ford Modeling .....::::: FORD MODELS :::::..... .   I have a personal friend that looks a bit like me when I am thin, so when their is confusion over people whom look similar, I have him investigate since he is a licensed investigator, and he might know more.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/07/07 Sunday 5:20 A.M.:  I did some routine computer maintenance.   I watched some television.   It is my viewpoint that the recent hacking problems that I have been having on all three of my primary computers for the last month and a half is coming from Taiwan or from China through Taiwan.   A number of other people I know have been having similar problems.   The motive for the Chinese would be that since they make a lot of the hardware parts, they are trying to cripple out systems in hopes of selling us newer hardware.   It became pretty obvious when the hacking mostly went away after the earthquakes in Taiwan which knocked out a lot of their internet infrastructure.   I ate three scoops of strawberry shortcake ice cream.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  The Chinese are like mischievous children.   They are so poorly informed in their closed society, they do many things that do make sense to individuals whom are better informed.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/07/07 Sunday 2:10 A.M.:  After I sent out my weekly notes.  I did a routine Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I will check out briefly to see if there are any good movies on television this early in the morning.   With all of the high security in America and censorship with communications anymore, there is not much left to do on the internet but bottom fish or take a break from it and watch some vintage B movies about the way life use to be.   CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 01/07/07:

Note:<888> 01/07/07 Sunday 12:10 A.M.:  I ate the same meal as last night, but I ate three 3/8th inch thick slices of the cold eye round with the meal.   I will now send out my weekly notes.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/06/07 Saturday 11:45 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.   I switched the primary computer memory, so the two 512 megabyte memory chips are in the first and second slots and the one gigabyte memory chips is in the third slot.   It seems to be starting up normally now.   I went through my email.   The Panasonic headset was mailed to me today from New York state, so it should be here early in the week.  I seemed to have been hit by a DNS attack.  I checked my Vista Firewall settings, and they seem to have been altered, so I changed them to the defaults, and hopefully this will fix the problem.  CIO  

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Note:<888> 01/06/07 Saturday 10:15 P.M.:  I woke up at 4 P.M. today.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I slept some more until 8 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  The primary computer when starting up, when one turns on the UPS, one then has to turn on the primary computer button and then hold it longer to turn it off and then turn it on, and it sometimes starts.   To possibly fix this problem, I rotated its memory, so the one gigabyte memory strip is in the first slot and the two 512 megabyte memory strips are in the second and third slots.   I also changed the pin positions on the front panel control wires where they attached to the motherboard, and I also changed the memory setting in the CMOS from 400 MHz to auto.   It now seems to start up more smoothly.  One turns on the UPS and then turns on the primary computer with its button, and sometimes it starts right up, and other times one has to be turned off again my holding the power button for a few second and then on again, and then it starts up normally.   Whatever, the case it is starting up a little bit better through the memory check cycle and the password logon.   I went outside, and I picked up my mail.  I got my rent bill, and it is still the same amount as in the past.   I will pay it on this Monday.   I have a 4 P.M. appointment this Monday also.  I do not need anything from downtown, so although it is warm out, I will stay home, and I will do a little bit of regular computer work.   Bets off on Prince William wedding - CNN.com .  CIO     

Note:<888> 01/06/07 Saturday 9:00 A.M.:  I finished the backup.   I took down the small miniature Christmas tree and the Christmas wreath off the outside of the front door.   I chatted with a friend.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/06/07 Saturday 7:45 A.M.:  Before doing the backups, I tried using "regedt32.exe" to delete all of the Symantec entries in the registry and also I deleted the Symantec files, but when I went to reboot the computer, it would not boot, so I booted the Vista DVD, and I selected the repair option, and I think it did a system restore restore, so the computer is back running fine again.   I tried deleting the Symantec registry entries in case there might be a problem installing the new version of Norton Internet Security 7 for Vista when it comes out at the end of the month.   Well after checking the system, I will just do the Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  I will not do the backup to the Bytecc external hard drive.   I could always restore the Maxtor external hard drive backup, since it is from before I uninstalled NIS 7 for Vista beta, but I will do that as a last resort when the NIS 7 for Vista comes out at the end of the month.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/06/07 Saturday 4:45 A.M.:  How to go to M.I.T. for free - USATODAY.com . www.mit.edu .   BBC NEWS | Americas | Drill ban sought for Alaskan park .  It is suppose to be raining this morning, so I will not be going out.  Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .   I will now do a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I will then do a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the Bytecc external hard drive.   CIO    

Note:<888> 01/06/07 Saturday 4:15 A.M.:   I rested a while until just now.  The telephone rang with no person just as I was lying down to rest after the last message.

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Note:<888> 01/06/07 Saturday 1:15 A.M.:  I cut two 3/8th inch thick slices of the cold eye round of beef, and I put them on a dinner plate with some Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce on them.  I put a couple of teaspoons of Kikkoman soy sauce on the rice in the Rubbermaid container from the refrigerator, and I reheated it in the microwave on one vegetable cycle.   I put about an inch of water in a Revere pot with lid and steamer tray, and I steamed for 15 minutes on medium high electric burner heat 1.5 cups of baby carrots with broccoli spears and also a medium onion that I peeled and quartered.   I put the steamed vegetables in a bowl with a little bit of olive oil on them.   I put the heated rice on the dinner plate, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I will now take a nap for a while.  CIO  

Note:<888> 01/06/07 Saturday 12:20 A.M.:   I was awaken at 10 A.M. this morning by a bothersome neighbor calling twice.  I checked with the Greenwich Housing Authority about the problem.   They also told me that my rent would not be going up, but I have not yet received the rent bill today.   At about 11:15 A.M., I received my order for 7 cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100 cigarettes in a box from www.ordersmokesdirect.com .   I chatted with a relative, and I woke up at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I slept some more until 8 P.M..  I chatted with a friend and a relative.   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I threw out the garbage and the recent periodical literature.   I watered the plants, and I put more white vinegar in the scent bowl in the living room.   If one searches "KX-TGA670" at http://www.pasc.panasonic.com/epartr/ , one can see I can buy belt clips for my Panasonic handset units for .90 each and $4.95 surface shipping.   When I have the money, I can also order this headset unit for it Panasonic Hands Free Headset - KXTCA92 , which seems to be about the best price with free shipping or $29.95 from Panasonic with shipping charge.  Of course this generic one is also available Emtc - Panasonic Cordless Phone Headset for $10 with free shipping.    I finally bought a slightly used one at Amazon.com: Used and New: Panasonic KX-TCA92 Hands-free Headset with Comfort Fit and Fold Design for $12 and $4.99 shipping coming from the New York area for $16.99 total.  I ordered three Panasonic cordless telephone belt clips for .90 each for $2.70 and $4.95 ground shipping plus .46 tax for $8.11 total.   Thus I will have a belt clip for each of the two Panasonic handsets and a spare one in case one breaks.    Thus with the headset and the belt clip, one would be able to wander around chatting with it hands free, and be able to do something like work with it in the kitchen, but the handset is not water proof, if it got wet.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/05/07 Friday 5:35 A.M.:  List of TV cards that are suppose to work with Vista Media Center http://jtsang.blogspot.com/2006/06/vista-beta-2-released-to-public-media.html .  ActiveWin.com: Microsoft Windows Vista with Media Center Hardware Requirements Information .  The Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 is suppose to work with the Vista Media center, so maybe sometime in the future, I will order on of the ones shown here Newegg.com - Search Results for Hauppauge PVR-150/500 .  I tried installing the Vista beta WinTV Player for the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 to use with my WinTV Go card, but although it installed, the channels would not change with it or the other player even when I uninstalled it, so I did a System Restore restore to two days ago, and the existing WinTV Go card works fine once again, and its channels change once again.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I have to get up around noon to check my mail to see if my rent bill came, and if it did I have to go out and pay it.   CIO

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Note:<888> 01/04/07 Thursday 11:50 P.M.:  The Joy of Cooking recipe for pancakes, griddle or batter cakes.

About 14 four inch cakes

Sift before measuring 1.5 cups of all-purpose flour

Resift with:

1 teaspoon of salt

3 tablespoons of sugar

1.75 teaspoons double-acting baking powder

Beat Lightly:

1 or 2 eggs

When using 2 eggs, you may separate them.  Add the yolks to the milk mixture.  Beat the whites until stiff, but not dry and fold them lightly into the blended batter, after adding the milk and butter.

Add:

3 tablespoons of melted butter

1 to 1.25 cups milk

You can lightly grease the griddle or pan, and once heated over medium to medium high electric heat, they should take two to three minutes per side.  One generally cooks them less on the second side, and one can generally flip them with a spatula the first time once the batter on top has begun to bubble quite a bit.   One can added berries or other bits of fruit such as chopped apples to the batter or even raisins, and one then puts butter or margarine on the cooked pancakes and one pours over the stack of pancakes a hot or room temperature syrup such as maple syrup or maple flavored syrup.   One could also use honey if it were available instead of syrup. 

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Note:<888> 01/04/07 Thursday 11:25 P.M.:  I checked with the Delamar Hotel at 1-203-661-9800 or 1-866-335-2626 or The Delamar on Greenwich Harbor , and they are not too busy in the off season with all of the other hotels in the area, but it is convenient to Greenwich Avenue with all of its boutique shopping, and I think they serve Twinings tea there, if you need a spot of tea.   Alas, I guess if one still smoked cigarettes, you could sit outside on one of their harbor side room balconies and blow the smoke out into the harbor.   Occasionally the United States Coast Guard USCG moors one of its launches across the short distance of the harbor at that point at the Police Launch dock just south of the Island Beach Ferry, so if one were in need of transportation on Long Island Sound, and if one were in the U.S. Military, one might hitch a ride at some indefinite date in the future further eastward on Long Island Sound, and possibly from some station like New London, Connecticut, one might catch another vessel out to that far away island of Nantucket Nantucket Island, MA 02554 - A Complete Island Guide where about the only thing open this time of year would be the Jared Coffin House, the Brotherhood of Thieves Whalers restaurant and the Atlantic Cafe along with the usual year round activities such as the A&P and the Hub and the Grand Union and Arnos at www.arnos.net .  Alas, since the tourist season tends to end there after the Christmas stroll, more than likely one would be left with the local year round islanders whom tend to be a thrifty group of people, since everything on Nantucket except blue fish and sea gulls has to be imported, the prices there tend to be 25% more expensive, except for possibly real estate rentals this time of year, but one would still have to pay the higher heating bills for island fuel.  Of course Bermuda.com offeres cooler weather in the winter than Florida, but they are suppose to be in the middle of the Gulf Stream, so possibly one could get by with a Trimingham's sweater, but it can be cool in the night breeze.   I was only there in April, when I was living in the Boston area back in 1968, so I was use to cooler temperatures for that time of year.   I do not recall swimming in April.  I met my friend George Cary there at the time, so maybe he is actually from there instead of East Aurora, New York up by Buffalo, New York.  He did seem to have a Queen Victoria connection, and I once read that one of Queen Victoria's daughters married a wealthy Canadian, and it was so cold in Canada, she made Bermuda a popular winter destination.   Of course the Duke of Windsor when he was the Governor of the Bahamas during World War II had a wealthy Canadian friend whom owned a profitable gold mine.   He also knew the Swedish fellow that owned Electrolux which use to manufacture vacuum cleaners in Greenwich, Connecticut, and he was able to use his yacht the "Southern Cross" to travel off of the Bahamas, but I am not sure if he ever sailed on it across the Atlantic.   Frequently Royalty have their own separate group of retainers, so they tend to take them with them where ever they may wander.   About the most Anglophile place I know of in the United States of America is probably here in Greenwich, Connecticut, since it seems a few people here have British connections.  I remember there use to be a British colonel that walked downtown from his Riverboat shaped house in mid country on Lake Avenue, and there use to be a lot of British sports cars around here in the old days.   Alas I guess the British have found out other places to hide in the Commonwealth with modern transportation, so it is hard to tell how many if any are still left in this area anymore.   I ate the last scoop of butter pecan ice cream and another scoop of light strawberry shortcake ice cream.   CIO        

Note:<888> 01/04/07 Thursday 10:05 P.M.:   I chatted with a relative.   Basically living up north, they have enough people around that we manage to survive when it is warmer around here.   Of course the cost of living up north is suppose to be more expensive than down south, so we do not eat as much as our southern cousins whom live where a lot of the food is produced.   Of course maple syrup is produced up north as is a lot of grain or wheat and so are eggs and so is milk and so is baking powder and butter and berries in season, so one technically could rough it up north on blueberry pancakes with maple syrup and butter in season or without blueberries out of season.  Apples are produced up north too, so one could have apple pancakes.   Also where there is a lot of grain, some of it is used to feed livestock and poultry, so they have some of those items up north too.   However, it takes quite a bit of energy to produce grain, so I am not sure how much grain we have in our reserves or not.  Amtrak is suppose to deliver fresh produce up north from Florida, and as far as I can tell, we still have fresh produce.   Also since it can sometimes be cold up north, we tend to have a lot of frozen foods, but it costs money to run a freezer.   There are also a lot of canned foods up north, but they might come from warmer areas of the country.  Of course there are a lot of dairy products up north too.  We also have lots of potatoes, however we supposedly are running low on seafood, since the oceans are getting fished out.   Locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut we do not produce too much food except a few orchards and whatever is left to catch in Long Island Sound, but our grocery stores are still full of expensive food items if one can afford them.   We also have the large Canadian Commercial bakery called George Weston Foods that produces the Arnold and Thomas' line of bread products and possibly the Entenmann's pastries and pies.  I think they also produce turkeys in Michigan, so possibly there is still food around here.  We also have a Costco www.costco.com nearby where on can shop in wholesale quantities over in nearby a 100 yards away Port Chester, New York.   I have always been taught to watch my weight, so currently after a filling dinner, I weigh 193.5 pounds in my leisure clothes, which would be about 88 kilograms or 13.82 stones, so I guess you could say roughly I weigh 14 stones.    I am 6 feet tall or 72 inches or tall or 1.83 meters tall, which overall is on the smaller size for full grown adult males in this area.  I was always one of the smaller people in my age group where ever I lived.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/04/07 Thursday 9:05 P.M.:   I took the 3.35 pound prime angus eye round roast, and I put it on a baking rack in a baking pan, and I seasoned it on all sides with garlic powder, chicken and meat seasoning, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, and a lot of Kraft Hickory Smoked barbeque sauce, and I cooked it in the Farberware convection oven at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 45 minutes.   For the last 15 minutes, I put an inch of water in a Revere two quart pot with lid and steamer tray with a cup and aha half of baby carrots and broccoli spears, and I steamed them on high until the steam began to rise and lowered it to medium high for a total of 15 minutes steaming time.  I also made up a batch of http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/mlsrice.htm , and I also used two beef bouillon cubes and some Old Bay seasoning in it.   I cut two 7/16th inch thick slices off the cooked eye round of beef on a carving board with a serrated cutting knife, and I put the remaining eye round in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.   I put the beef juices from the carving on the two slices of beef on a dinner plate.   I put the steamed broccoli and baby carrots in a bowl with a little bit of olive oil on them.  I put half of the rice on the plate, and the other half in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.   I put a couple of teaspoons of Kikkoman soy sauce on the rice,  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I chatted with the Key West Hotel Resorts & Florida Keys Beach Accommodations - Casa Marina Resort Key West , and they told me it is finally busy down there.   I was thinking with the warmer weather up north from El Nino that possibly not as many people are now going to Florida in the winter that once went down there.  Of course if some southern people need to get away from all of the excitement and activity down south, they could come up here and stay at the The Delamar on Greenwich Harbor which is not very busy on the Greenwich, Connecticut harbor right now.   They currently are flying the Canadian flag there, so more than likely they offer Canadian hospitality there.   There are quite a few people from Greenwich, Connecticut whom go back and forth between Greenwich, Connecticut, Key West, Florida, and Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, but it probably depends on whether they can afford fuel for their yachts.   It can cost over $50,000 to fill up a moderate size yacht with fuel for a short trip.   It ain't cheap to bring the stink pot along.   CIO      

Note:<888> 01/04/07 Thursday 7:05 P.M.:   I chatted with a relative and a couple of friends.   The only reason that I can think of that somebody might hack or try to gain access to my computer equipment would be possibly to gain access to any address or telephone numbers of friends and family.  Since one of my family members knew Mr. Vickers Vickers machine gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia more than likely they would not have much success bothering them.   There is another possibility and that is that they might think that I actually own my Microsoft Money index portfolio of a million dollars in stocks bought in August 1997 of 100 shares of 165 different stocks that I randomly selected and one share Berkshire Hathaway A stock which today by the same index portfolio is worth $1,760,000 or about 6.5% annual growth for the New York Stock exchange which is about average for a blue chip index like that.   However, in a portfolio like that one would have large trading fees and after one paid one's capital gains on a portfolio like that one's net profit would be less than 4%, which is why I say one would be better off investing in Long Term United States Government Treasury Bills which pay about 4.7% a year, which one would have to pay tax on, but one would not risk losing one's capital investment if the stock market took a big drop which it historically has from time to time.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/04/07 Thursday 5:35 P.M.:  EGU General Assembly 2007 .  Report: Earthquake-Damaged Asian Networks Will Be Slow To Recover - Technology News by TechWeb .   Foreign spying on U.S. defense technology seen rising | Tech&Sci | Technology | Reuters.com .  If some foreign agent is hacking or gaining access to my computer equipment for reasons of their own, I have to remind you in time of war, they could be shot for espionage.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/04/07 Thursday 4:35 P.M.:  I woke up around noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I picked up my mail, and I have not yet received my rent statement from the Greenwich Housing Authority.   Apparently their computer for their billing system broke down last week.   I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went to my usual 3 P.M. appointment, and I returned home.   I had to restart the server, it looked like it had been tampered with or hacked.   It is running fine now.   It always seems like when I go to my usual Thursday 3 P.M. appointment, the computers are tampered with.   I will now do some regular computer work.  CIO    

Note:<888> 01/04/07 Thursday 4:40 A.M.:  Twinings Twinings of London - 300 years of expertise Tea deal Slickdeals.net .   BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 2007 to be 'warmest on record' .  BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Australians in Antarctica ascent .  I ate 12 Ritz crackers with 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch by 1/16th inch thick slices of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese on them.   I put the Sony Television Optimum Digital Cable Box remote control on the telephone table at the apartment entrance, so it is more easily available for kitchen or dining table or in the living room television viewing area.   Not much happening on this side of the pond.   I suppose with the warmer winter so far this winter it is a good time to visit the north country of Canada or Northern Europe this time of year, but it would still be a bit damp with lots of humidity despite the warmer weather.   I have a feeling the ski resorts in the Northeast of the United States of America are not doing so well.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Of course with the warmer weather up north, there will probably be less people venturing down south on holidays, since there are still higher fuel costs involved in traveling.  During this past 30 days of December 2006 with the living room thermostat set at 78 degrees Fahrenheit keeping the apartment at 70 to 72 degrees compared to November 2006 with no electric heat turned on, the electric usage in November for 34 days was 967 KWH versus December 30 days at 1126 KWH or 28 KWH per day in November 2006 versus 38 KWH used per day in December 2006.   The electric bill for November 2006 without electric heat going was $160.04, and the bill for December 2006 which I have paid the monthly average of $165 for was actually $180.56 or $20.52 more with the electric heat turned on during this past mild December 2006.   The average temperature for December 2006 was 39 degrees Fahrenheit versus 28 degrees Fahrenheit for December 2005, so with the warmer weather we are saving a bit of money, which works out to be about the same cost as last year with the colder weather, since there was an electricity rate increase last January and February 2006, and there is suppose to be another one this January 2007.  CIO  

Note:<888> 01/04/07 Thursday 2:45 A.M.:   On the order for  Barnes & Noble.com - Books: 2007 Spirit of Horses Wall Calendar, by Leslie Harrison, Wall Calendar for $7.49 and  Barnes & Noble.com - Books: 2007 365 Days In Great Britain Wall Calendar, by Philip Hoffhines, Wall Calendar for $6.47 and $4.98 standard delivery charge less 5% discount using this link Barnes & Noble.com - Fortune Magazine Store Front  of .71 and $1.10 tax for $19.33 total, tracking is UPS: Tracking Information .    Newegg.com - Don't Miss Out! For A Limited Time Only! .  Microsoft Office Live : Full Review - Review by PC Magazine .  Windows Live Ideas – Homepage .  Save Over $75 - Polaroid 7" Widescreen Under-Cabinet LCD TV w/DVD Player @ Geeks.com! .  I went through my email.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/04/07 Thursday 1:35 A.M.:   I chatted with a relative after the last message.   I showered, and I cleaned up, and I went out, and I threw out some garbage and the last two shipping boxes, and I brought along my cart for bringing back groceries from the car to the building.   I drove downtown, and I noticed there a lot of young people who I guess can not afford to cruise in their cars hanging out at the Shell gasoline station on West Putnam Avenue.   I sat out for a while downtown, and it was fairly quiet.   I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and then I drove through Bruce Park along the waterfront along the Mianus River and east on East Putnam Avenue to the Riverside shopping plaza.   I went to CVS, and I got their circular for next week.   Next week starting on Sunday, they have CVS vitamins and supplements on sale for buy one get one free.   I was given the special early since the circular on display advertised it, and I got two 60 capsule bottles of MSM 1000 mg. for $6.79 both.  I then went to the Food Emporium, and I bought a 5 pound box of Clementines from Spain for $4.99, two 16 ounce boxes of America's Choice margarine for .99 each, two 64 ounce containers of Florida Natural orange juice with calcium for $3 each, two Turkey Hill buy one get one free of 1.75 quart containers of low far strawberry shortcake ice cream for $5.79 both, a top round Angus eye round roast for $3.99 a pound for $12.93, a 48 ounce container of Quaker Old Fashioned oatmeal  for $4.19, three 64 ounce containers of America's Choice grape juice for $3.09 each, two 10 quart package boxes of America's Choice powdered dry milk for $6.99 each, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $3.49, a head of broccoli for $1.99, Dole bananas for .69 a pound for $1.79, and a three pound bag of onions for $2.49 for $68.89 total.  I then returned home, and I brought up my groceries with my folding cart.   I noticed at the Riverside Food Emporium they have large spiral cut uncooked hams for $1.49 a pound.   I put $10 on my MacGray laundry card, so I have $13.85 on it now.   I put away my groceries.   Earlier this week, I reconnected the Net2Phone headset to the Toshiba laptop computer to have it available for use.   Thus all of my computers now have headsets, and all of them except the Toshiba laptop have web cams.  I took an 8 inch long cable TV cable, and I unplugged the out cable from the Sony television digital cable box, and I screwed in the 8 inch cable, and I the put a two splitter on it, and I connected the cable for the Sony television to one of the two ends, and I connected the long cable leading to the kitchen 20 inch RCA Thomson Proscan television to the other output connector, so now both of those TVs are now operated by the Digital Cable box on top of the living room Sony television, and they will both run the same channels when turned on.   One can use either of the Digital Cable Box remotes to control it including the one by the computer, but one has to turn on the kitchen Proscan with the Zenith or the RCA remote in front of it on the counter, and make sure it is tuned to channel 3 to receive the cable signal.   Thus I can watch the entire digital television line up in the kitchen while I cook or clean up or have a cigarette.   I will now go through my email.   However, first I will eat two scoops of butter pecan ice cream.   2007 New York National Boat Show - Official Web Site .  CIO  

Note:<888> 01/03/07 Wednesday 8:25 P.M.:   I chatted with a relative.   I microwaved, and I will shortly eat with a glass of iced tea a 15.5 ounce Stouffer's stuffed peppers dinner.   I will now shut down the primary computer,  and I will shower, and I will clean up, and I will go downtown briefly, and then I will go by CVS at the Riverside Shopping Plaza, and I will do a little bit of the first of the month shopping at the Food Emporium at the Riverside Shopping Plaza.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/03/07 Wednesday 7:05 P.M.:   I was up at 2:30 P.M. this afternoon.   I picked up my mail.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I watched President Ford's funeral from Grand Rapids, Michigan FOXNews.com - Gerald Ford Laid to Rest in Michigan Hometown - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum .   Gerald Ford laid to rest - CNN.com .   FedEx delivered the two extreme cold weather to minus 30 degrees below zero Fahrenheit U.S. Army sleeping bags.   I rolled them up into bed rolls in the hallway from top to bottom, and I secured them shut with their draw strings.   I put one at the far end of each sofa.    When I was throwing out the box, UPS delivered the Crucial 2 gigabyte pen drive and the Casio watch with light.   I chatted with a neighbor.  I installed the pen drive on the motherboard USB 2.0 port, and it works just fine for turbo boost in Vista.  One has to enable it from the pen drive icon properties.   I set the Casio watch to the exact time and date with civilian time clock of 12 hours, but it can be quickly changed with a button to military time of 24 hours.   Its light button should work just fine at night.  The light comes on with the bottom button for few seconds at night if one pushes it to see the time.   It also has a stop watch feature and a alarm feature, and it is water resistant to 50 meters under water.    

Note:<888> 01/03/07 Wednesday 6:25 A.M.:  I ate the last piece of cheery pie with a scoop of butter pecan ice cream.   I checked with a local security organization about the picture in the store window downtown.   Sign of things to come bLaugh .   Batteries.com Brand 50 Alkaline Battery Package - 40 AA's and 10 AAA's $8.99 with coupon code "NEWYEAR" and .99 shipping.  Microsoft Investigating Possible Vista Flaw - Windows Vista, Determina, Security - CRN - begin .   Microsoft: Vista's Secure, Not Perfect - CRN - begin .   A Doozie Of A Duesie - Forbes.com .  I went through my email.  BBC NEWS | Technology | $100 laptop project launches 2007 .   BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mars rovers are taught new tricks .   Ford's final homecoming - CNN.com .  Amazon.com: Pyrex Storage 10-Piece Set with Lids: Kitchen & Housewares .  Target : Durable 38-pc. Storage Set .     At www.barnesandnoble.com , I looked at Barnes & Noble.com - Book Search: horse calender , and I bought Barnes & Noble.com - Books: 2007 Spirit of Horses Wall Calendar, by Leslie Harrison, Wall Calendar for $7.49 and  Barnes & Noble.com - Books: 2007 365 Days In Great Britain Wall Calendar, by Philip Hoffhines, Wall Calendar for $6.47 and $4.98 standard delivery charge less 5% discount using this link Barnes & Noble.com - Fortune Magazine Store Front  of .71 and $1.10 tax for $19.33 total.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note:<888> 01/03/07 Wednesday 4:05 A.M.:  I noticed something unusual downtown this evening.  There was a large picture of a hand grenade in the window of a store one or two stores west of the YMCA downtown on East Putnam Avenue.   If this is a sign of things to come, possibly we should try to increase security in this area by going to Military Police and Military Security, but I am not sure what the reserves are in that capacity with the current war in Iraq under way.   It seems like a rather odd picture on display in an area of upscale home improvement stores.   I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note:<888> 01/03/07 Wednesday 3:40 A.M.:  This month at the first of the year, my Social Security SSI went up $603 to $623, but my Food Stamps went down from $122 to $114.30 for a net increase of $7.70 in income or from $725 in 2006 to $737.30 in 2007, however my rent is also suppose to go up this month, so at this point I have 1% increase in income which seems rather peculiar in terms of the real COLA or Cost of Living Adjustment, since my electricity last year which includes heating and cooling went up 20% last year and is suppose to go up another 20% this January, and also most other items seem to have gone up, plus I am saving less that half or what I did at last year's end in terms of CVS and Stop and Shop and Food Emporium savings with their store discount cards.  If my rent goes up more than $7, I will have no Cost of Living Adjustment for inflation.   Thus it seems to be the U.S. and the State of Connecticut and the local Greenwich Housing Authority are fudging with the figures, and they are not following the real Federal COLA guide lines.   It means that more than likely I will have to try to barrow money from family members to make ends meet, which I really should not have to do so, considering I work all the time as a volunteer with the computers and the internet and also I do quite a bit of other observation around town which takes time and money.   I have paid my average amount for the electricity bill this month at www.cl-p.com , but I will not see what the real amount was until the statement is released on the internet in a day or so.   Thus the lack of support except for a little bit of family help has limited me to what I can do overall.  Still I have worked with computers for 16 years and having lived at this current location for I think 18 years, there is not much new that I need, but I have to maintain the existing environment that I live in which means watching every penny.   CIO

Note:<888> 01/03/07 Wednesday 2:45 A.M.:  I paid my latest www.newegg.com order with the pen drive that is suppose to work with Vista turbo boost Newegg.com - Crucial Gizmo 2GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) - Retail for $35.99 or the same here 2GB Gizmo! overdrive with security software from Crucial.com for just $56.99! , so I ordered the Newegg.com - CASIO W87H-1V Casual Sports Watch - Retail for $19.99 and the Newegg.com - Crucial Gizmo 2GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) - Retail for $35.99 less .62 or 1.1% preferred account discount plus $6.29 one day shipping plus $2.99 preferred customer discount plus $2.99 rush order fee for $61.65 total which are now paid for.   Tracking on the crucial pen drive is UPS: Tracking Information .  The Casio watch has not shipped yet.   This is the link for the two U.S. Army www.army.mil Extreme Cold Weather to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit sleeping bags that I bought from eBay: ECW Sleeping Bag US Army Surplus Excellent Condition (item 280043680378 end time Dec-29-06 08:16:58 PST) for $29.99 each for $78.48 total with shipping which was $18.50 shipping for both.  The tracking is FedEx | Track also due today.   CIO   

Note:<888> 01/03/07 Wednesday 1:50 A.M.:   I went out after the last message.   I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.    I was once told about four years ago that President Gerald R. Ford had an office in the office building on the north side of the Greenwich train station area.   I never saw him around it, however I have chatted with the night watchman there a number of times.   I chatted with the Planet Pizza store person, and I reminded him that their store's biggest customer in White Plains, New York is www.ibm.com up in Armonk, New York.   They ate pizza there even before Sam became president of the company.   Of course I post my own pizza recipe at Michael Louis Scott's Home Made Pizza which is sort of like an Italian Deep Dish Sicilian Pizza.   In Volcanology, as I recall when I use to visit Manhattan regularly, I once ate at  Welcome to Uno Chicago Grill #0308 Columbus Ave. from the  Uno Chicago Grill , which is located just behind the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan on the West Side in case any hungry volcanologists show up in town.   I recall eating at their first restaurant in Chicago, Illinois with my second cousin John Winter and his family while I was in college at www.lfc.edu .   However, on my limited budget, I have not been able to afford to order or eat out from pizza parlors, but when we first moved to Fairfield County, and we lived in Stamford, Connecticut for a year on Rocky Rapids Road, before moving to Greenwich, Connecticut to Baldwin Farms Road North and South too, and Alpine Road, and Cornelia Drive, Putnam Green, Milbank Avenue, Grigg Street, Steamboat Road and finally Vinci Drive, we use to regularly order pizza in Stamford, Connecticut from john's best pizza loc: Stamford, CT - Google Maps .  Of course pizza in the United States of America tends to be a lot more substantial, since we have all of the basic ingredients to make it.    Also when I was in Key West, Florida, I knew Bob Russell who started Pizza Hut Pizza Hut - For Fast Delivery, Carry-out or Dine In! by opening one next to every big ten university in the Midwest which he eventually sold to www.pepsi.com .   We also knew the people from Michigan that started Domino's Pizza - The Pizza Delivery Experts ® .    Around New York University and Greenwich Village in the old days, I use to occasionally get a slice from Ray's Pizza, one of which was just north of the West 4th street subway stations, and I recall the other one was at around 73rd street and Third Avenue in Manhattan.  Of course when I lived in Florence, Italy, I was known to frequently eat pizza for snacks, since they are much lighter in Italy, and I recall regularly order pizza in Florence, Italy from a stand near the train station. When I worked at the Midwest Bank in Lake Forest, Illinois during college, I noticed the local pizza parlor was one of their most active depositors, and a friend whose family owned Castle Oil in Connecticut also seemed to be one of their biggest customers.  When I worked in Long Island, in Plandome Manor, New York, there was evidence that someone from Welcome to the Polly-O® cheese was around, and when I was last down in Key West, Florida, there was used to be an organic pizza parlor on Duval Street in Key West in the center of town that was quite active, and I recall, I met Steve Beale of Fennimore Cheese there which is now Fine Wisconsin Cheese from Carr Valley Cheese Inc. - La Valle, Wisconsin , and as I recall one of my family first friends in Greenwich, Connecticut whom are still here owned a cheese company in Wisconsin that they sold to a larger food company, and as I recall when I went to former President Bush's inaugural in 1989, we went to the Wisconsin reception where there was lots of free food with a lot of dairy products.   During my walk of Greenwich Avenue, I stopped by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue.   I also once I completed my walk, I walked back down to the bottom Greenwich Avenue to the Thataway Cafe, and I used the men's room there.   I noticed one of their patrons was singing Karaoke Music of Frank Sinatra's song "My Way".   It was a very good rendition of the classic song, and the person even looks a bit Italian.   I then returned to my car, and I drove down by the waterfront.   I returned home.   I made and ate the same meal as last night reheating the rice and French green beans in the microwave oven on one vegetable cycle.   On the burger and onions, I also put five 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch by .25 inch slices of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese, which for the last two minutes, I warmed the cheese with the lid on the frying pan, and I also added a couple of teaspoons of Kikomann soy sauce for the last two minutes.  I ate the meal with a glass of iced tea.  While walking Greenwich Avenue, I noticed the now vacant Candy Nichols shop across the street from www.cvs.com would be a good place to put in a new www.walgreens.com to keep up the competition on Greenwich Avenue.  It would even better if it were opened 24 hours too like the one in the old Caldors store in Old Greenwich.  CIO 

Note:<888> 01/02/07 Tuesday 9:05 P.M.:   I chatted with a relative.   I ate a piece of cheery pie with a scoop of butter pecan ice cream and a glass of iced tea.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will shower, and I will clean up, and I will go downtown for one of my normal regular walks that I do regularly now that I am caught up on my computer activity.   CIO  

Note:<888> 01/02/07 Tuesday 8:20 P.M.:   This morning before going to bed, I did a Vista Complete PC backup of the primary computer from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  CIO  

Note:<888> 01/02/07 Tuesday 7:45 P.M.:   I was awake at 3:30 P.M..  I had another computer magazine call.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I went outside, and I threw out some garbage, and I buzzed a neighbor that their window was still partially opened.    Because of President Ford's funeral, we did not have mail delivery today.   I noticed the tropical plant was back outside by the side entrance.   I watched President Ford's funeral activities in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and I also printed out and posted the last four months of my Scott's Random Notes Scott's Notes from September 2005 through December 2006, 1.65 Mbytes http://mikelouisscott.com/mlsnote2.zip contains "mlsnote5.doc" and "mlsnote6.doc" and "mlsdoc7.doc" and mlsdoc8.doc pages 4335 - 5450 and Scott's Notes from September 2005 through December 2006, 1.65 Mbytes http://geocities.com/mike2scott20062/mlsnote2.zip contains "mlsnote5.doc" and "mlsnote6.doc" and "mlsdoc7.doc" and mlsdoc8.doc pages 4335 - 5450 .  I left the printout of my notes in two Oxford clamp binders on the near back side of the town sofa behind the telephone chair at the apartment entrance.   CIO      

Note:<888> 01/02/07 Tuesday 3:35 A.M.:   I just ate another piece of cheery pie with a scoop of butter pecan ice cream.   I went through my email.   I guess I could try to go to bed earlier this morning, and I could set my alarm to watch President Ford's funeral this morning at 9 A.M. Betty Ford prays at her husband's casket - CNN.com  and GERALDFORDMEMORIAL.COM and Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum .   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note:<888> 01/02/07 Tuesday 1:40 A.M.:  This evening about 6 P.M., I ate a piece of cherry pie with a scoop of butter pecan ice cream on it.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/02/07 Tuesday 1:20 A.M.:  I put away the laundry.  I made up a batch of Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe .  After the rice was done with its microwave cycle, I opened a 15 ounce can of Green Giant French beans, and I put the contents in a microwave proof pot with lid, and I heated them on one vegetable cycle.  While doing this for the last 10 minutes,  I took a 10 inch stick proof frying pan, and I put in a few table spoons of olive oil and a couple pads of margarine, and I peeled and sliced one medium onion into 1/4th inch thick slices, and I turned the frying pan on to medium high electric burner heat, and I brought the fat to a simmer, and I sautéed the onions and burgers for about 4 minutes a side flipping it regularly and seasoning it with garlic powder and ground black pepper and chicken and meat seasoning and lowering the heat to medium.   I then put the burger on a plate covered with onions, and half the steamed rice on the plate with a tablespoons of Kikkoman soy sauce on the rice,  and I put half the steamed green beans drained of their water in a bowl with a little bit of olive oil on them.   I ate it all with a glass of 30% grape juice and 70% filtered cold water.   I put the remaining rice in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator, and I put the remaining French green beans in a Rubbermaid container also in the refrigerator.   A friend I know went to the new movie about diamond smuggling in Africa, and he told me it was so scary, he never feels like going to Africa.   CIO       

Note:<888> 01/01/07 Monday 10:40 P.M.:   I was awake about 3 P.M. this afternoon.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I drove over to the Valley Road post office, and I mailed the manila envelope with the Microsoft Money 2006 reports to a relative.  I chatted with a neighbor.   I chatted with a relative.   I am in the process of brewing up a batch of Formula One http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .   I chatted with a friend.   I unmade my bed, and I will shortly put clean linens on it.   I am doing two loads of laundry, and I have about 40 minutes to go on the dry cycle.    I do not dry my wool socks, but I hang them out to dry on the drying rack on the bathroom door entrance.   If one puts wool items in a hot dryer they will shrink.  I will now make my bed with fresh linens.  CIO           

Note:<888> 01/01/07 Monday 6:50 A.M.:  I will relaxed a bit, and I tried to think.   I ate a toasted bagel with olive oil on it.   I left a message with a friend.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO 

Note:<888> 01/01/07 Monday 6:00 A.M.:  A word of warning to a bunch of kraut heads across the street from McDonalds on West Putnam Avenue, they may think they can get rid of that eye sore they call the McDonalds hamburger joint, but if the Germans in this town do not start paying some of their bills, certain powerful economic forces in America have enough economic influence to tear down the Mercedes Benz dealership which has a lot of competition too, and they could build some sort of other outfit there like a more profitable sporting goods shop.   Mercedes Benz dealerships look like they are profitable and well run, but if you knew how much it costs to bring over and maintain all of that German engineering in this country from Europe, it is not all that profitable, it is just more of a manufacturer's showroom in America for those interested in the product.   If people are interested in some other more profitable item, they could always move the Mercedes Benz dealership to some more upscale community in Fairfield County, and open a large chain drug store which in this area would tend to be more profitable, since the markup on pharmaceuticals in America is much more profitable than German engineering.   I think McDonalds will survive on West Putnam Avenue, because it does not cost as much to produce a hamburger in America as it does to import foreign cars, their technicians, their parts, and their business line of support.   Thus from what I can tell, as the community gets older and more grey they are less interested in more new foreign cars, they can not figure out how to operate anyway, and they are probably more interested in a convenient place where they can shop for ordinary household items at a slightly increase markup compared to the higher gasoline prices to go to some of our neighboring superstores.   Whatever, the case there are plenty of Mercedes Benz dealerships in this area, so if they have to go out of business because they are losing money, I am sure there are plenty of other dealerships in the area that are making enough money in the New York area.   Obviously none of the dealerships have paid me any money for the last 18 years for keeping an eye on their property at night, but I think my www.geico.com insurance man knows why.   Since they are a desirable after market product, more than likely the local dealerships profits are being cut into by their higher insurance rates in this area.   Not to mention by American dealership standards, they are relatively small local dealerships compared to many of the super dealerships that I have seen in America in my travels.   Obviously the motoring public know more than I do, since I only spend around $30 a month on gasoline.  Can you imagine if you owned one of those International RXTs which probably have 200 gallon gasoline tanks or diesel tanks, it would cost you $600 to fill it up every couple of days.   I do not think the local parents are prepared for their children to hit them up for $600 in gasoline money every couple of days.   In my particular case, I might be able to afford the eBay: Matchbox 2006 # 29 International CXT Truck (item 160064715162 end time Jan-16-07 17:59:13 PST)  next month, when I have more money to spare.   Obviously a few too many people watch expensive television, and they think that is reality, and unfortunately television is not reality, it is mostly entertainment.  Just to keep up their interest though out in the Midwest ask them if they make the same model in a funeral hearse in case some people need to bury a relative up in the mountains.   I have a feeling the only way, you might get to drive one of those particular vehicles cheaply would be if you joined the www.army.mil in some sort of combat activity, and I do not think the local office crowd is looking for that sort of adventure.  Since they sell a blue one, maybe the police in the Midwest use them for some sort of law enforcement.   I do not think the www.navy.mil uses them, since they do not travel to far away from the ocean, and they tend to paint everything battle ship grey not blue, if you have ever seen the U.S. Navy in action.  Traditionally in America and in Connecticut blue is the color for an ivy league school called www.yale.edu , so possibly somebody with a bit of spare change is sending their kid back to school from the Midwest at Yale, but since Yale is on an ocean port, they could easily have it end up on a banana boat out of the country if you get my drift.  CIO 

Note:<888> 01/01/07 Monday 4:05 A.M.:  You can buy a toy model of it at eBay: Matchbox 2006 # 29 International CXT Truck (item 160064715162 end time Jan-16-07 17:59:13 PST) .  PickupTruck.Com - SEMA 2004: Hands On with the International CXT .   International CXT, World's Biggest Production Pickup - First Look - Motor Trend News .  International RXT - First Look - Truck Trend .  International RXT Specifications & Stats - Truck Trend , I hope the farm boy has an oil rig in his back yard for fuel for the truck.   I guess the bigwigs in the Midwest think some of the local farmers are making a lot more on their crops that I have estimated.   There is not that much money in the alfalfa business, unless they sold the farm.  CIO

Note:<888> 01/01/07 Monday 3:00 A.M.:   Of course with a $20,000 investment in computer equipment over the last 15 years, the weather is suppose to be my primary focus with the computer equipment not technical repairs caused by hackers all of the time recently, plus I do read the technology news to stay abreast of the field, when I have the time.   When you look at this news story National Guard rescues dozens stranded in snow - CNN.com if you have ever been in that colder part of the country, you would know they take the weather seriously.   Since the order I made figuring the United States Army www.army.mil has the best cold weather experience around here, and figuring sleeping bags good to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit below zero worth new at $200 for $29.99 apiece, which I bought two of with $18.50 shipping, since the shipping on the second one was free for $78.48 total.  Thus if we lose our electric heat in this building or if for some reason we need to leave it in the cold of winter, I should be well prepared for myself and a guest should anyone show up.   This is the link for what I bought from eBay: ECW Sleeping Bag US Army Surplus Excellent Condition (item 280043680378 end time Dec-29-06 08:16:58 PST) .  Since the tracking FedEx | Track shows it left Lenexa, Kansas Lenexa, KS - Google Maps on Friday morning at 5:30 A.M., it is probably ahead of the snow storm.   Who knows maybe Harry Truman hitched a ride with the truck bringing it out here.   Possibly since Key West, Florida has both a Roosevelt Boulevard and a Truman Avenue, they both might be still living in retirement down there, but nobody notices them, because they are so darkly tanned after all of these years.   Well, if Russians can live to be over 120, why can't Americans?   One of my neighbors use to look like Harry Truman, and as I recall the oldest person that I knew living in this building told me the last person that he bothered voting for was Harry Truman, so possibly Harry is still around at Harry's Back East or Harry's Bar.  If you know how fast trucking moves in America, Friday morning at 5:30 A.M. there would arrive on our coast at Fedex probably about 20 hours later, so the sleeping bags are probably at the Fedex sorting facility in New Jersey already.  However, after the holiday it will take a while to sort out the back log, and so they probably will arrive on time.  Weather for back east  shows that current front will be passing us as a lot of rain this morning until 1 P.M. weather.com - Map Room - Satellite Map, Weather Map, Doppler Radar US Current Weather and Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .  Knowing the hormone levels of the people in the part of the country who eat a lot of beef, and since they are effected by the blizzard, more than likely there will be a lot of babys born out there about nine months from now.   I saw a blue truck like this International Truck and Engine Corporation CXT at www.mcdonalds.com today, so more than likely some poor farm boy escaped the cold weather in the Midwest just in the nick of time.   It still looks like new, but I did not spot the license tag.  CIO

Note:<888> 01/01/07 Monday 1:35 A.M.:   Well Happy New Years!  I chatted with a relative.   I have been thinking that although my father supposedly died a number of years ago, his birthday was January 26, 1919.   Since he knew the author Ian Fleming of James Bond fame, maybe he faked it.   Well, anyway if he were alive he would be coming up on his 88th birthday which in some parts of the world is considered still young.   January 26, I noticed on my new Horse Calendar which I hung over the other one on the right living room closet door is also Australia Day.   I recall after Dad passed away, I saw a lot of people in this area from Australia for quite a long period of time.   Dad always like living in tropical areas full of alligators and other nasty reptiles, so maybe he is hiding out in one of those areas in Northern Australia full of alligators and crocodiles that people seldom visit except the occasional Bush pilot, who knows.   The Scotts tend to be hermits, so once he found the right place after millions of miles of traveling selling products derived from chemicals, he more than likely might have decided to hide out in some obscure location, when in retirement he would not be bothered.    Who knows maybe he chose a colder climate in New Zealand or Tasmania.    I have seen something that looks like a Tasmanian devil around here, but it might have just escaped from the local zoo.   Anyway what I noticed on the BBC yesterday is that in this picture of President Bush BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush shelters amid tornado alert down in Texas with his best friend Barney, he looks a bit like another famous Texas person Lady Bird Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , so it must be with the Texas diet and atmosphere that they all begin to look a bit alike.  Who knows, maybe they are related.    She is a Taylor, so maybe the Bushs or Pierces are related to the Taylor family.   I recall it was President Zackary Taylor that sent Winfield Scott down to take over Mexico to free Texas, so possibly there is a historical connection there.   I once read in the L.B.J. days that Lady Bird Johnson owned all of the liquor stores and radio and television stations in Texas, so possibly she put another relative into office that we did not know about.  Of course Scott was just in the www.army.mil , so he did not make any money off the deal.  He only had 50,000 soldiers when he conquered Santa Ana's 2.5 million troops, so they must have been taking a long siesta on a cold day when he conquered Mexico, or maybe they did not even notice it, since it might not have been covered in the Spanish language newspapers.   Lady Bird Johnson also looks a little bit like In Memoriam—Olive Cawley Watson, Watson Institute Overseer Emerita : The Watson Institute for International Studies who they might have been mistaken for.   Of course Betty Ford Betty Ford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and Olive Watson knew each other, since they were both Ford Models in their youth .....::::: FORD MODELS :::::..... , so more than likely this group of people with Washington D.C. connection all know each other in this area too.  Of course, since the Scott family according to Nelson Rockefeller Nelson Rockefeller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is suppose to be from Virginia, he might have the money and contacts to know, but possibly he never researched them elsewhere in this world, or he just wished they lived in Virginia.   I think the Scott family is the family name of the Marquess of Queensberry Marquess of Queensberry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , possibly they might have had a land grant in Virginia they forgot about in their other adventures.   As I recall the Virginia land grant went from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, so more than likely they took off from what is the current day Virginia to explore it further westward, and when the tobacco fields of Virginia were burning out the farming property, they settled on another more prosperous parts of their land grant leaving the newcomers in Virginia with a bunch of burnt out tobacco dirt farms that could barely sustain politicians smoking cigars.  Anyway we know that George Washington supposed never told a lie, but I have a feeling a few President told a few fibs, so in honor of the New Years, I baked a Mrs. Smith's 37 ounce frozen cherry pie, which I put on a baking tray, and cuts about six small slices in the frozen crust, and I wiped olive oil over the frozen crust, and I baked it in the Farberware Convection oven at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 50 minutes, and I am now letting it cool on a wire rack for at least an hour before I think about sampling a piece with a scoop of butter pecan ice cream.  On a more somber note, I was told that the full unedited version of Sadam Hussein's execution is available at the DRUDGE REPORT 2007® , but I do not feel like watching it.  I am always into conspiracy theories, so I figure if Sadam Hussein really had billions of dollars and since Russia was the biggest backer of his regime in Iraq that he might have bribed his executions and have been smuggled out of Iraq which might be easy since Iraqis historically have always been some of the top smugglers in the world, and he could be hiding out in one of those more obscure places in Russia where other dictators hide out, so as not to be bothered.   It is really hard to tell, because we do know Sadam Hussein had a network of look a likes and doubles too.   Obviously with that type of money he might have been able to bribe his executioners, since executioners and guards do not earn that much money.   It is just Food for Thought.   CIO