Note:<888> 02/28/07 Wednesday 11:55 P.M.:  I woke up in the night last night, and I ate a piece of fruit cake with two scoops of banana split ice cream.   I finally woke up at 10 A.M. this morning, and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, and two 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 4 P.M..  I showered, and I cleaned up, and I went out.   I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.   I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street at closing just before 6 P.M..   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two six packs of Stop and Shop bagels for $2 each six pack, a half gallon of Tropicana lite orange juice for $3, fresh Chiquita bananas at .54 a pound for $1.59, and a 12 ounce container of Gumout Fuel System Cleaner for $3.99 and .24 tax for $12.82 total.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Exxon gasoline station, and I bought $21 of self service premium unleaded gasoline at $2.959 a gallon for 102.7 miles driving since the first of February 2007 at 13.8 miles per gallon at an average of 13 miles per hour.   I put the Gumout fuel injector cleaner in the gasoline tank before filling up the car.  I then put in a quart of Castrol 10W-40 oil in my car, and then I bought two more quarts of Mobil Clean 3000 10W40 oil for $2.64 each quart and .32 tax for $5.60 total.   I put another 3/4th of a quart of Mobil oil in the car, and the rest is in the rear station wagon area with the bicycle.  I checked the air in my tires for 32 PSI on all four tires.  I then went by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought a 8 quart bag of Miracle-Gro potting soil for $3.99, a 250 count bottle of fruit flavored CVS antacid extra strength pills for $6.99, buy one get one free of CVS 180 caplet Glucosamine Chondroitin for $49.99 both, two Gillette Emach dry skin shaving gel 7 ounce for $3.49 each, CVS adult low strength aspirin pain reliever 81 mg for $5.49, a 8 ounce tube of Crest multicare whitening fresh mint anticavity toothpaste for $2.99, two 50 capsule bottles of CVS B-150 buy one get one free for $9.99 both, buy one get one free of MSM 1000 mg. for $6.79 both,  buy one get one free of CVS 60 capsule B-12 1000 mcg. for $5.99 both, buy one get one free of CVS natural garlic oil 100 softgels for for $4.59 both,  plus .84 tax for $104.63 total.    I then drove further down Greenwich Avenue, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by Zyn stationary on the way up Greenwich Avenue, and I bought a "2 for the Dough" scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I stopped by the Greenwich Senior and Arts Center and I washed my hands from working on the car.   I then used the ATM machine at the Greenwich Avenue branch of Putnam Trust Bank of New York.  I stopped by CVS again.    I chatted with a local Scottish landscaper that had grown up downtown.   I then returned home.  I picked up my mail.  I put away my purchases.   I am in the process of making up a fresh batch of Formula One http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .   I will put it in the refrigerator before I go to bed shortly.   I will microwave a 15.5 ounce Stouffer's frozen stuffed pepper dinner to eat with a glass of iced tea before going to bed.   I have to be up at 7 A.M. and leave by 10 A.M. to be about at the Microsoft conference on Long Island to check in around noon for the conference starting at 1 P.M. and ending at 5 P.M..  I will return home directly from the conference.  I will now shut down the primary computer and go to bed after eating.   CIO

Note:<888> 02/28/07 Wednesday 12:10 A.M.:  Integrated Solutions Magazine - Home .  Lancaster University Postgraduate Applications Online - Home .  Microsoft Big ideas deserve big rewards. .  MS TechAssessment .  Channel Insider Blog - Microsoft - 4,200 Partner Downloads of Vista Assessment Tools .  The Vermont Country Store .  Forbes Online Store - Product Information .  China And India Hit The Skids - Forbes.com .   » Vista WGA problems confirmed | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com .  Crypt Held Bodies of Jesus and Family, Film Says - New York Times .  TXU Corp. Information - Forbes.com .  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nasa probe set for Jupiter flyby .  BBC NEWS | Americas | Nasa delays space shuttle launch .  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Bee vanishing act baffles keepers .  BBC NEWS | Technology | Burgers paid for by mobile phone .  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Bon Nuit.  CIO

Note:<888> 02/27/07 Tuesday 11:00 P.M.:  Here is my friend the former Christ Church church worker that called me up today http://mikelouisscott.com/chris2000.jpg .  He is still a legal resident of the state of Connecticut, but he is living further east of here where he has a better view of the entrance of Long Island Sound, so if he sees any unfamiliar shipping, I hope he lets me know.   It is sort of top secret where he lives, but I have a feeling there are enough boats around there, one could probably get somewhere on a boat, if one had to.   I will give you a hint, he is a neighbor of the United States Coast Guard Academy volunteering up in that neck of the woods.  Since he spent many years living in downtown Greenwich, Connecticut, he probably has more friends around here than I do, since he was in the middle of it all for a long time.   I will now go through my email.  Of course from what I know he usually travels by bus, and the train does not go everywhere he has to go sometime.    CIO 

Note:<888> 02/27/07 Tuesday 10:05 P.M.:  I was emailed this site http://www.kabir-ken.com/ and インターネットコンサルティングからホスティング業務まで幅広いインターネットサービスを提供しているカビールケンです。 .  I think it is in Japanese.   CIO   

Note:<888> 02/27/07 Tuesday 10:00 P.M.:  I mailed the $15 PNY memory mail in rebate in the mail room downstairs.  I use two .39 stamps to mail it.  I moved my car to its usual parking place, so people will think I never go anywhere.   I replaced the four smaller Campbell pork and bean cans underneath the Epson Stylus Color 880 printer under its tea tray with four larger 28 ounce B&M baked bean cans, so there is a little bit more room above the HP IID laser printer beneath it above its sheet output tray.  I will now reheat on two vegetable cycles the remaining pound of steak stew in the Rubbermaid container, and I will put it in a soup bowl, and I will eat it with a glass of iced tea.   CIO 

Note:<888> 02/27/07 Tuesday 8:40 P.M.:  I took the 512 meg. Kingston memory chip from the FIC server, and I put it in the Epox backup computer.  I now have two 512 meg. Kingston memory chips in the Epox backup computer for one gigabyte total.   I activated XP Professional on it, since product activation came up on it.   I put the two 512 Meg. PNY memory chips from the primary computer in the FIC server with the existing one, so it is now 1.5 gigabytes of memory.   I activated XP Professional on it.   For some reason, I had to reinstall Eztrust Antivirus and Eztrust Firewall on it, but it seems to be running fine.   About 4 P.M., I received the order Newegg.com - PNY 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail for $159.99 less $1.76 1.1% preferred customer discount, plus $2.99 discount for preferred customer for $155.24 plus $4.99 three day UPS shipping and Rush Order Fee of $2.99 for $163.22 total which the tracking was UPS: Tracking Information .  I put it in the primary computer with the existing one gigabyte generic memory chip for 3 gigabytes total.  Vista did not call for Product Activation with the extra memory.   After installing the new memory, I waited for an hour to let it adjust to the room temperature of the primary computer before turning it on, since the memory was probably colder when it arrived from UPS.  I did some tests with it, and it seems to be running fine.  I put it in the same location as the PNY that I took out.  I replaced the folding breakfast tray to the right of the primary computer right monitor with a tea tray on top of four 28 ounce B&M baked bean cans which are more stable than the breakfast tray that I took out, but high enough above the Cablevision box and the RadioShack cable switch to be accessible.  All three computers seem to be running just fine http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm and http://geocities.com/mikelscott/computer.htm .  It took a while, but I think it is worth the effort and cost to speed up the performance of the three primary living room computers.   I will not fill out the PNY $15 mail-in rebate information, and get it ready to mail in.   CIO

Note:<888> 02/27/07 Tuesday 3:25 P.M.:  I will now get the three primary living room computers ready to install the new memory and to reconfigure the existing memory.   Thus the server will be down briefly.  CIO 

Note:<888> 02/27/07 Tuesday 3:05 P.M.:  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.   I chatted with a neighbor about my upcoming adventure out to Long Island.   I think the last time I was out there besides going to the Long Island airports was to help a friend move in out in Melville, Long Island nearby where the Microsoft conference will be.   I spend about $1,800 a year going to www.cablevision.com in Melville, Long Island, and I spend about $650 a year going to www.geico.com out in Melville, Long Island, so basically I send about $2,450 a year to Melville, Long Island through the internet, which with an annual income of $7440 is about one third of my annual income before Food Stamps and family loans to help maintain my internet activity.   Thus I have one third of my income invested in an Off Shore Investment called Long Island that I frequently see from Steamboat Road here in Greenwich, Connecticut.  In the old days, I use to drive back and forth from Port Washington, Long Island, Manhasset, Long Island, Plandome, Long Island, Oyster Bay, Long Island, Locust Valley, Long Island, Melville, Long Island, and Sands Point, Long Island more frequently, so I know my way out there unless they have changed the roads which from the map, it does not look like they have.   I do not bother my friends out there anymore, since they have younger children whom are heavily invested in equestrian activity which I do not know anything about.  I know Madam Chang Hai Chek use to live in Lattington, Long Island, so possibly there will be some Chinese there along with other diplomats such as the Russians from the Russian consulate out in Glen Cove, Long Island and I know a lot of flight personnel live out in Long Island, and I know the former owner of www.cbs.com also lived in Long Island, and I know Microsoft use to have an office across from Penn Station in Manhattan before moving up town to Rockefeller Center area, so more than likely some of their people also live in Long Island.   Also Helen Kress Williams use to run the Long Island Garden Club, and as I recall one time I visited Sands Point, Long Island, they had a new carved duck decoy show at the old abandoned Gould Estate.   With all of the old Robber Baron families out there, there is little chance of making money, but possibly they might put in a good word with the managerial class of people out here.   Maybe some people from Long Island will venture out here to Greenwich, Connecticut while I try not chat to much with the other conference attendants in Long Island.   I do know a former neighbor of mine on Steamboat Road bought Roosevelt Field or MacArthur Field to build a mall.   However, I just call Long Island the Scott's old potato farm.   We have had mostly rice around here recently, so maybe all of the residents in Long Island are eating all of the potatoes.  Maybe I will wear my new duck hunting jacket in case I get a chance to go Hunting for Long Island Duck which make excellent Peking Duck like I once ate at the Waverly Inn in Greenwich Village.  Microsoft usually serves a few bottle beverages along with tea and coffee, so after four hours you tend to get hungry in the afternoon, so maybe I will look for a site for a new McDonalds www.mcdonalds.com .   Last time I was in Melville, Long Island just west of Hauppauge, they were building some offices around the exit off the Long Island expressway, so possibly they have built further out in the potato fields of Long Island.  CIO   

Note:<888> 02/27/07 Tuesday 1:45 P.M.:  I went downstairs, and I picked up my mail.   I then drove over to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on West Putnam Avenue, and then I returned home.   I chatted with a fellow from India down in Clearwater, Florida about a Order Better Homes and Gardens Magazine sweepstakes offer, and I explained to him I was not buying anything.  I still have not showered and cleaned up yet, so maybe I will do that now.  I have a rescheduled Greenwich Housing Authority inspection on Tuesday March 6, 2007 at 2:15 P.M..  CIO  

Note:<888> 02/27/07 Tuesday 11:35 A.M.:   I woke up at 7:30 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 called up the Ready for a New Day Launch Tour 2007 at 1-877-673-8368, and although their web site says they are full, I was able to schedule through the telephone call a reservation for the Thursday March 1, 2007 Microsoft Developers Conference at the Ready for a New Day Launch Tour 2007 Hauppauge, New York Thursday March 1, 2007 .   I should have funds that day, so I should have no problem making it out there for the conference, and I should receive a piece of paper for the download and registration of Microsoft Office 2007 Professional .   It is about 60 miles each way.   I printed a directions map.  Check in begins at noon.   I will now make my bed and wash the breakfast dishes, and I will shower and clean up.  I changed the FIC server back to the Microsoft Windows XP Professional IIS server, since it has footers for my www.ibm.com advertising links.   For some odd reason the Microsoft Vista Longhorn Beta 2 build 6001 server February 2007 edition does not seem to support footers.  CIO    

Note:<888> 02/26/07 Monday 10:45 P.M.:  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Bon Soir mes amis.  CIO  

Note:<888> 02/26/07 Monday 10:10 P.M.:   Looks like the order Newegg.com - PNY 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail for $159.99 less $1.76 1.1% preferred customer discount, plus $2.99 discount for preferred customer for $155.24 plus $4.99 three day UPS shipping and Rush Order Fee of $2.99 for $163.22 total which the tracking is UPS: Tracking Information will arrive tomorrow.   I will have to stay inside all day waiting for it.   I am currently down to $2.14 in cash available in bank accounts and on hand with $10 check deposited waiting for clearance, and I have cash on hand in my change purse two quarters and five Lincoln pennies and one Metropolitan Museum of Art yellow button that I found a couple of months ago on Steamboat Road.  Of course that does not include any of my assets outside of the United States of America that one does not have to pay tax on or spend so much money to protect.  CIO

Note:<888> 02/26/07 Monday 9:50 P.M.:   Rocks make news TARRYTOWN LAND SALE SET ASIDE - New York Times .  ROCKEFELLER LAND USE QUESTIONED - New York Times .  http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/ops/docs/sgtraining/pubs/sgpapprovedschls.pdf .  Different Greenrock http://forestry.berkeley.edu/westernregional/greenrock.pdf .  Maybe they think I am Superman, and they are using Kryptonite.   CIO

Note:<888> 02/26/07 Monday 9:05 P.M.:   Windows Vista Hardware Assessment: Overview .  Ready for a New Day Launch Tour 2007 .   I went through my email.   I will now eat a piece of fruit cake with a couple of scoops of banana split ice cream.  CIO

Note:<888> 02/26/07 Monday 8:40 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.   I saw a sure sign of an early spring today, I saw about a half dozen Canadian geese flying over the building I live in headed east to northeast.   I will now go through my email.   CIO 

Note:<888> 02/26/07 Monday 8:15 P.M.:  I defrosted on two General Electric microwave defrost cycles a 2.5 pound Rubbermaid container of steak, asparagus, baby carrots, and olives stew.   I then heated it on two vegetable cycles.  I put about half or one pound in a soup bowl, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I refrigerated the other half.   CIO 

Note:<888> 02/26/07 Monday 7:10 P.M.:  I had a telephone call from a relative today at 10 A.M. on my answering machine, and I called the relative back.  I woke up at 1 P.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 made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I picked up my mail downstairs.  I got the $10 rebate on Heartland America: AT&T 2.4GHz 2-Line Cordless Phone 1412 .   I showered, and I cleaned up.    I went out, and I cleaned the snow off my car.   I went to my 4 P.M. appointment.   My 4 P.M. appointment was cancelled because of the snow which was only a couple of inches, but schools were canceled today.   I walked over from the 4 P.M. appointment, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue starting with upper Greenwich Avenue.  I put my $10 rebate check in the bank at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I stopped by CVS, and they were stocking water pump toy rocket launchers that tend to get the launcher wet when they are used.    I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I then used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center.   I then returned to the remote parking area where I parked.   I then chatted with a staff member at the Greenwich Library, and then I returned home.   I called Microsoft, and they told me I should wait one to two weeks to see if I get the Office 2007 Professional program sent to me before I call them, since it takes time.  I have the telephone numbers I need to pursue the matter.   Sooner or later I should get it from them, and it is just a matter of getting hold of the right individual.   CIO      

Note:<888> 02/26/07 Monday 7:20 A.M.:  Backup done.   Two links in my start button group in Vista Media Player and Messenger Installation Korea and Media Player and Messenger Installation Korea .  I do not know how they got there unless Office 2007 Professional demo installed them.   Time for bed.  CIO

Note:<888> 02/26/07 Monday 6:35 A.M.:  I downloaded and installed the 60 day Office 2007 Professional demo at Microsoft Office Online .   Thus Microsoft has until May Day 2007 to give me the free copy that they might consider giving me, or we will have to change the system back to Office 2003 Professional part of which is still on it.   While we're at it why don't we change the everything else back to 2003.   For some reason my start program button in Vista has the Korea Media Player Center and the Korea Messenger Center, which seems odd.   Maybe Samsung instead of sending me the all purpose printer, they sent me and everything I have to Greenwich, Korea.   You never know with these computer types.   Well, we're doing all right here as far as I can tell, and I heard the snow plow outside shoveling off the drive.   I will now reboot the system, and then I will do a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   The Office 2007 install updated Outlook 2003, but it will be interesting whether it can be uninstalled.  Word 2007 runs, but if you want to run Word 2003, you have to wait a short bit for it to configure itself.   The SharePoint Server 2007 will not work with the Vista Longhorn Server beta two build 6001 February 2007 edition.  After I do the backup, I will shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed.   I will wake up at 1 P.M. for my 4 P.M. appointment.   CIO

Note:<888> 02/26/07 Monday 3:55 A.M.:   30 day demos of Microsoft Expression Web Microsoft® Expression® are available.   I downloaded and installed the 180 day demo of SharePoint Designer Home Page - Microsoft Office Online , and I put it on both the primary and the server computers.   It looks like it might work as a newer web page designer, but when I opened my current notes in it and spell checked it, the speller checker froze on my "IBM" link at the top of my page, and it would not continue even when I selected ignore.   However, I might try it when I have some more time, and I could always ditch the IBM link which still comes up in the footer of each page.  However to use the advanced features of SharePoint Designer 2007, one needs to use the SharPoint 2007 Server SharePoint Server Home Page - Microsoft Office Online , however the SharePoint Server 2007 server will only run on the Download details: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial Version Windows Server 2003, but it might run on the Vista Server too.   However, I do not publish my content on the same computer as I serve it up on, so I need to be able to publish to my server, and I guess there might be a way to do that, but at the moment, my server content is not that advanced.   I went outside briefly about a half hour ago, and there is about two inches of fresh powder and no more new foot prints.   It is snowing lightly, and the local temperature is 32 degrees Fahrenheit, so it might turn to rain once the sun comes out.    I have a 4 P.M. appointment today, so I would have to be up at 1 P.M. to make it.   CIO

Note:<888> 02/26/07 Monday 12:45 A.M.:   I ate a piece of fruit cake with two scoops of banana split ice cream.   I checked outside, and about a half inch to an inch of snow has fallen.  I looked outside the east side door, and it was not snowing presently.   I noticed what looked to be a woman's foot prints leading out of the building about size 10 narrow foot with separate heel about 2 by 2.5 inches and sole about four to three inches wide about six inches length, so a big woman must have left the building since 9 P.M. when I came in the same way.   I went through my email earlier.   There is not much happening on the internet as far as I can tell.   I guess all of the marketing and computer sales promotions end on weekends when people are not at work.  Not much happening on the boob tube MSN Entertainment - TV Listings .   Possibly everyone left to go skiing in Europe which is what rich younger people tend to do, since they can afford to do it.   Most of the wealthier younger people around here take ski holidays, and they do not travel down to Florida to vacation with the older retired people except for family excursions.   The poorer ones have to tough it out in their ski houses in the New England Mountains up in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont and the even poorer ones have to settle for day ski trips in Pennsylvania and New York state.   Why they have to go so far away never made sense to me, but I guess the skiing is better the further north one goes into the mountains.   In Nantucket I use to work in the summer with people from Stowe, Vermont  who worked there in the winter.   The owners of the Languedoc in Nantucket even had a bar called Sister Kate's in Stowe, Vermont along with a house there and in Nantucket, and one of their employees claimed to have been Jackie Onassis body guard in Stowe, Vermont.   His name was Ian Greenshield and when he was not guarding her, I think he built barns in Stowe, Vermont, and like the rest of the Kennedy clan he had the same large appetite for alcoholic beverages.    He looked like the Beef Eater on Beef Eater's Gin or like Shawn Connery, but what ever the case, the last time I saw Ian was a few years after I left Nantucket in December 1983, and one of the following summers he was walking the Kennebunk Beach.   He was from Montreal, and his father supposedly owned Greenshield Investments and his son lived in Fort Lauderdale, and Greenshield Investments no longer appears on the internet, but there is a Greenshield gold mining company in Canada along with a firm that installs sprinklers around baseball fields.   Greenshield is also the name of the Rothschild family home in Vienna, Austria.   Whatever the case they must be colder weather than here people.   CIO    

Note:<888> 02/25/07 Sunday 11:15 P.M.:  I opened three eggs, and I noticed they were bought on December 1, 2006, so I threw out the three opened eggs and the seven old ones.   I microwaved a Stouffer's 15.5 ounce stuffed peppers dinner, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.   I noticed that since I was given Microsoft Office 2003 around February 2005 by Microsoft at their conference up in Bridgeport, Connecticut when I chatted with somebody that looked like Bill Gates at the conference during a break while we were having cigarettes, and I mentioned to him how profitable the tobacco companies were and how much money they are suppose to have.   Well anyway, since I think I have Office 2003 Professional that they gave me, if I really needed Office 2007 Professional, I could install it as an upgrade with the less expensive upgrade version Newegg.com - Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Version Upgrade - Retail for $289.99 .   However, when I chatted with Microsoft about not being able to attend their conference in Cromwell, Connecticut, they indicated to me that they might be able to still give me Office 2007 Professional, but I have not heard back from them.  I emailed the Ready for a New Day Launch Tour 2007 and I also faxed Microsoft the same email at 1-425-936-7329.   Since I use Microsoft FrontPage 2002 for my web log, I hardly ever use Office 2003 Professional, since I do not write letters anymore with free telephone calls and I do use Outlook 2003 for my email, and I use Microsoft Publisher 2003 for my Christmas letter, so I basically I do not need Office 2007 Professional, but if they wanted to give it to me for free, I would happily install it on my primary Vista Computer, but since I have the 60 day demo of it working on my FIC Vista server, there is no rush, since Microsoft sitting way out there in the boon docks in Washington State does not really know about any matters happening around here locally, so there is probably some computer nerd waiting to make a sale out there, not realizing how many years I have worked and promoted their product at my own expense without any assistance from them.     A copy of the letter follows.    However, I lied slightly in the letter, and that is that since I use cinnamon in my oatmeal, and since I eat baked beans a lot, I have an extraordinary amount of intestinal gas or what you might call fart gas in my body digestion system, so I do not think it would have been fair to Microsoft or their other conference participants if I tried to sit through a four hour conference without letting lose with a major amount of farts which the other participants would not necessarily have appreciated.   Following is the email and fax to Microsoft. 

I was unable to attend the Cromwell, Connecticut Microsoft New Day Event, since I am legally disabled, and I am advised

By my Doctors to not to travel away from my home without assistance.   I cancelled the event, so somebody else could

Attend, since I could not find anyone to take me to the Cromwell, Connecticut event.

There was another one in Hauppauge, New York, and I might have had a friend in that area to take me, but it is all

Filled up.

My primary reason for wanting to attend the event was to get the free copy of Office 2007 Professional, since I enjoy

Writing.   At one event in Bridgeport, Connecticut they gave me a copy of Office 2003, which I still use.

I was told by the Microsoft representative, that you might be able to send me the registration number and download for a free

Copy of Office 2007 Professional since I was not able to attend.  However, I have not heard back from your people.

I am currently living in Greenwich, Connecticut on $620 a month and $200 a month family assistance maintaining my

Web activity and other expenses.  I beta tested Vista for 16 months, and the free copy of Vista Ultimate is running just fine.   I am also

Running my server some of the time with Vista Longhorn Server beta 2 build 6001 February release.

I use to have a friend to drive me around out of town, but it got expensive, and he moved out of this area.

I have a car, and I drive locally about 200 miles a month, and if you had had a New Day Launch Event in

Westchester County, New York or Stamford, Connecticut, I might have been able to make it, since I can get to

Those areas fairly easily with the rather heavy traffic in this area.  Stamford, Connecticut once the Royal Bank of

Scotland consolidates its North American headquarters there in two years will be the fourth largest financial center in

The world after New York, London, and Hong Kong.

If you are able to send me the registration key for Office 2007 Professional, I would greatly appreciate it, so I could

Use it with Vista.  If not thank you for Vista anyway.

I could change my advertising link on my server to Microsoft from IBM, but the Greenwich Hospital that has treated me for the

Last 23 years was donated by the Watson family of IBM , so I try to be user friendly to IBM.   My disability is that

Since my father was a scientist, he worked around radioactive isotopes before I was born, so I have always been tired

And need more rest than more people, and I quickly wear out and become confused in unfamiliar situations, so I mostly

Do activities by routine, and I have only been to Manhattan once in 15 years since I got mugged at knife point, and that was

For the G8 conference after “911” .  I was accompanied by friends then.   I was not able to make it to the Vista launch in Manhattan

That I was invited to, because it was the end of the month, and I had no funds, and I would become disorientated in all of the noise

In Manhattan having not been there in 15 years except once.   My two friends in Manhattan whom might use my office environment

In my current apartment during a disaster if one were to happened volunteered for Disaster Services after “911” and the other is

An “American Red Cross” volunteer , so I have built up my home office environment in case they ever need to use it Good Forbid.

Of course none of it would work, if we did not have electricity.  

Thank You for you consideration,

Yours Truly,

Michael Louis Scott

71 Vinci Drive

Apt. # 206

Greenwich, Connecticut

06830-2902

1-203-531-6754

1-203-532-5474

Email:mikescot@optonline.net

Michael Louis Scott

http://mikelouisscott.com/

http://geocities.com/mikelscott/

mailto:mikescot@optonline.net

End of Microsoft Email and Fax.   CIO 

Note:<888> 02/25/07 Sunday 10:00 P.M.:  I woke up at 6 P.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 made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I had a telephone call from a Midwestern security agency about a matter that happened back in 1966, and I discussed it with them.   It is my viewpoint with old crimes and with modern techniques that older crimes can be reinvestigated.   I chatted with a friend that is still trying to balance his check book after a week.   I showered, and I cleaned up.   I chatted with a neighbor.   I went out, and I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I chatted with a local person of color that had lunch this past summer with Bill Clinton in Martha's Vineyard about the fact that back on the college campus at www.lfc.edu there use to be a person there when I was there from 1968 to 1972 that looked like Bill Clinton, but his name was Ted Turner.  I do not know if he was there before or after.   I also told him the radical group the Weathermen were active in the peace movement in that area working out of the other Midwestern college campuses as was the SDS, "Students for a Democratic Society", and since I was one of six people in the Young Republican Club, they did not like me too much.  I noticed this evening during my walk there were two male people of color making out with white women on the street downtown, but they might have been police decoy squads looking for racist type people, since I have seen that action with people around town before.  The police stopped one couple from fighting, and later on they had moved up the Avenue.   I stopped by CVS, and I picked up this week's sales brochure.   They have CVS vitamins and supplements this week for buy one get one free www.cvs.com .  A three pound bag of  Scott's grass seed is on sale for $3.99 or a 8 pound bag of Miracle Gro potting mix for $3.99.  A few other items are buy one get one free, but overall items are more expensive than in past years.    After my walk, I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.   A few people still park down there to enjoy the view and save on fuel from cruising around.  I do not get out of my car down there at night, because one never knows whom might be lingering around out there.  I then returned home.   I chatted with a relative.    CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 02/25/07:

Note:<888> 02/25/07 Sunday 3:45 A.M.:  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO 

Note:<888> 02/25/07 Sunday 2:45 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I drove from exit 2 on I-95 East to Exit 5 to charge up my car battery, and then I returned along west on East Putnam Avenue.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by the post office.   I stopped by the ATM machine on Greenwich Avenue at Putnam Trust Bank of New York.   I tried to figure out how to use it, but it takes smaller cents transfers in accounts, but it does not actually reflect the actual balance when below a dollar.   I stopped by the ATM machine at the lobby of Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then finished my walk coming back west on East Putnam Avenue.   The portrait of the hand grenade in the window of the art gallery on West Putnam Avenue just west of the YMCA says "Hug Me" , which seems odd.   I completed my walk down Greenwich Avenue.   I then drove down by the waterfront.   I then went by the drive up ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and they have the same Chase ATM machine.   I then went by the Citibank ATM machine at the Greenwich Train station, and its ATM machine does not show actual balances either when below a dollar when in cents.   I then returned home.   I ran a Norton Internet Security Antivirus Scan while out, and it did not show any problems on the C: drive, but I did not let it complete the D: drive.   I checked my Microsoft Money 2006 account, and it was off $48.55, and I checked the February amounts, and they seemed right, and all I could figure out was some how a charge before February 2007 was deleted.   I entered a Grocery entry for January 2007 of $48.55 to balance the account.   I have minimal funds until the first of the month.   I will now eat a piece of fruit cake with banana split ice cream.  CIO

Note:<888> 02/24/07 Saturday 10:05 P.M.:   I made up a batch of http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/pbf.htm which I used a 18 ounce can of B&M baked beans Maple flavor along with a little soy sauce and all of the other ingredients.   I ate it with a glass of iced tea.   I chatted with a relative.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and since it might snow tomorrow night, I will go out for a breath of fresh air and a walk this evening, but first I have to shower and clean up.  CIO   

Note:<888> 02/24/07 Saturday 8:55 P.M.:   I woke up at 2 P.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 6:30 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.    I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.   I moved my car to its regular parking place.   I picked up the mail.   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I will now do some regular computer work.   I have been out downtown for the last few nights, so I guess I will have a quiet night at home tonight.   However, it is suppose to snow tomorrow night, so I might change my mind and go out for some fresh air, but I will have to eat something first.   We generally watch the weather around here in terms of our outdoor activity, and the internet helps one do that.  Good weather program that I use Tropic Designs - Content.   Last night and a little while ago, I ate a 5.5 ounce tube of low fat Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips.  CIO

Note:<888> 02/24/07 Saturday 6:45 A.M.:  If you get bored of the warmer weather around, here you can always go up and visit some of my cousins kongehuset.no - Forsiden whom seem to know me when I show up there, and nobody seems to know me here.  Alas, the Sons of Oslo used to be in Byram, Connecticut until it got too busy around here, and I think some of them are still up in North Salem, New York where about eight years ago, they use to sell Ringness beer.   The Norwegians tend to keep an eye on me, since they know I do not know Norwegian, but I have an annoying way of showing up all of the time, when they least expect me.   They are so far off the beaten path, it is hard to tell whether they actually live there anymore.   They younger Norwegian children are more enthusiastic about the internet, since in cold weather, Norwegians spend a lot of time in bed resting from the endless daylight in the summer.   Old King Olaf was Queen Elizabeth II's uncle, so they are related to the British Royal family protecting the north side of the United Kingdom from invaders such as Russians whom might try to expand their territory.   When I visited Oslo, Norway in February 1983, I noticed coming from the Military airport where we landed the entire city of Oslo was surround by a 20 mile wide thick circle of large chunks of rock about six to twelve inches long and about half as wide.   I guess that is their anti tank defenses, so the Norwegians obviously take security very seriously.   The Palace in the center of Norway was surrounded by machine gunners 24 hours a day, and I once read the Queen of Norway goes outside and give the machine gunner cups of hot chocolate to keep their fingers warm.   I have a set of six of those cups in my apartment that I bought for $8 at the Old Greenwich Rummage Room thrift shop, but since I live in Connecticut, I have a feeling there is no shortage of armaments in this state.  Connecticut in the old days was famous for making fire arms, so more than likely the local residents have kept up the tradition, so when foreign dignitaries visit here, they more than likely are buying new armaments that can be bought here from the factories up around Hartford, Connecticut or where ever they are today.   http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm whom happens to be Norwegian once threw a party at the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Center called Tennis on Ice, and the $50,000 donation to finance the party was donated by a member of the Colt family, if you get my drift.   Even as young children in this town, we all drank Colt 45 beer, because we observed the town was quite heavily protected in our wandering around.  Of course down south in Alabama, they had so many turkey shoots, it was a wander there were any turkeys left in the country.  Around the waterfront here in Greenwich, Connecticut people still hunt ducks, and frequently they come from neighboring areas into our harbors for a little duck hunting.   Both the Round Hill Clubs and the Greenwich Country Clubs have trap and skeet shooting ranges, and the Greenwich Police Department has a firing range down by the train station, and I believe there is a public one over in Port Chester, New York along the Byram River, and a friend of mine knows a lot of prominent New York people from the Camp Fire Club hunting club a short distance north of here which was famous because Teddy Roosevelt belonged to it.    Thus established and wealthy people in this area can afford to and know how to protect their properties at least in the day time, but it is my view point any sort of wild life could be moving around at night besides the local youth.   So if you are sitting by a big picture window in the rear of your house in back country enjoying the fire side warmth of your hearth, you could have some drunken neighbor's kid viewing you, are you could have a big black bear or mountain lion come crashing through.   Thus the people whom live in back country do not always sleep as soundly as you think.  They can always here a car approaching in the wee hours of the morning, but as far as the wild life, they have their established areas, which most of us tend to stay away from.  In other words if your car ever broke down along the Merritt Parkway in the wee hours of the morning, you might not know what might be along those woods it runs along.   Well, I am tired, so I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Stay warm.   CIO 

Note:<888> 02/24/07 Saturday 5:35 A.M.:  Newegg.com - Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 - Retail good for three computers for $129 and $5 shipping, and it has Word, Powerpoint, and Excel, but not Outlook.  Suppose to work with Vista Ready Boost Newegg.com - Transcend JetFlash 4GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) - Retail .  CIO 

Note:<888> 02/24/07 Saturday 4:35 A.M.:  I did some communications checks.   Bush checks out battery-powered autos - Politics - MSNBC.com , yes but how far will they go, particularly in cold weather?   There was a television adventure challenge series on television about Bariloche, Argentina: San Carlos de Bariloche City , but most people I know visit there during our summer to go skiing down there during their winter's.   While down there during their winters, you can not get into Scott Polar Research Institute » Links and nsf.gov - Office of Polar Programs - ANT - South Pole Station research projects, 2006-07 , so it is summer down there, and I think the sun stays out a lot of the time U.S. Antarctic Program: South Pole Webcam .   The temperature down there seems too cold for this time of the year at minus 58.4 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of minus 87.1 degrees Fahrenheit, I would think it would be warmer in the summer down there.    Read all about it US NSF - National Science Foundation .   This nsf.gov Office of Polar Programs - PRSS - Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station says it goes down to minus 60 degrees Celsius during their winter or our summer which would be minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit or 76 degrees Fahrenheit below zero Fahrenheit to Celsius Converter, which would be too cold for me, particularly if I had to go outside to have a cigarette.  It would probably offer a certain degree of privacy.  CIO 

Note:<888> 02/24/07 Saturday 2:55 A.M.:  Sacre Bleu, the French can read Bibliothèque nationale de France .   I sent them a short note.   CIO 

Note:<888> 02/24/07 Saturday 1:25 A.M.:   Microsoft hit with $1.5 billion patent verdict | Tech News on ZDNet .  Britain's Prince Harry is bound for Iraq - Los Angeles Times .  My Samsung All Purpose fax, scanner, copier, laser printer $50 rebate information http://samsungelectronics.rebatestatus.com/link.aspx?P84313797-55867277 .  Sale at Sierra Trading Post - Save 35-70% on Famous Name Brands .  http://reviews.cnet.com/4321-3118_7-6561694.html?tag=nl.e501 .  Make Windows XP Look Like Windows Vista « The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP .  Windows Vista: Windows Anytime Upgrade .  Windows Vista Community .  Windows Vista Community: Blogs .  Windows Vista Team Blog - Blogs .  CIO

Note:<888> 02/23/07 Friday 11:00 P.M.:  I woke up at 2 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two 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 4 P.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I watered the plants, and I put more white vinegar in the scent bowl.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate three scoops of coffee ice cream which was the last of the coffee ice cream.   I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went outside, and I threw out the garbage.   I found a Bombay mahogany end table like the one that I used to have that somebody else in the building had thrown out.   I put it in my car.   I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I stopped by the downtown Greenwich Post Office to warm up, and they have painted it the same off white color on the inside, and it looks much better.   I stopped the Senior and the Arts Center to warm up.   I stopped by CVS to warm up.   I sat out briefly after my walk.   I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  I went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time.   The Greenwich Time said the State of Connecticut is going to spend $400 million dollars to fix up its train stations.   I chatted with one of the library reference librarians.   I then returned home.   I brought up the end table and my mail.  I put the end table at the near end of the down sofa where the telephone table was before.   I have the same items on it.   I move the telephone table into the bathroom, and I moved the Bombay tea table from the bathroom to on top of the blue Rubbermaid garbage can in the kitchen, so there is flat surface at that location.   I put the Cadillac and the Williamsburg trivets on it in case anyone wants to put something hot on it while cooking.   I opened up a 10 pound bag of Carolina enriched rice, and I put it in the storage containers that I keep extra rice in to have available.  The woman I chatted with on Wednesday downtown had the same look as the Chancellor of Germany and the man in the family I saw in the Greenwich Library tonight had the same look as the Prime Minister of Japan, so we have a lot of people in this area that look like other famous people.   I think I have seen them all before.  I chatted with a relative.   Thus the apartment looks a little bit more presentable.  I had to move the telephone chair at the apartment entrance a few more inches toward the closet narrowing the walk area behind the down sofa.  I moved the Ethan Allan recliner a few inches closer to the long green Scott family sofa, so the walk through area into the living room sitting area is still about the same width opening.  I took all of the flags down from the hallway bookcases, and I put them in the lower Rubbermaid hamper in the bedroom, so the books and other display items are available in the bedroom.   I will now have the same meal as last night, but I will have it with a 15 ounce can of Green Giant green peas.   There were lots of people downtown this past evening going out to dinner and going to the movies and pubs and coffee shop, so it is as busy here as ever on Friday night.   CIO    

Note:<888> 02/23/07 Friday 3:40 A.M.:  On my FIC server with XP Professional in the first partition on an IDE hard drive and with the Vista Server Beta 2 build 6001 in the second partition, when I installed it, the second SCSI hard drive was not recognized, and in the disk manager it said it needed to be formatted which would have destroyed its contents.   I solved this problem by disabling the DVD and CD drives in the hardware manager, and then in disk manager I assigned a drive letter to the SCSI drive, and this enabled the SCSI drive with its contents.   I then enabled the DVD and CD drives.   This happened in build 6000.   I installed the Bug Report program, and I tried to upload a bug report, but the Vista bug report program would not work.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note:<888> 02/23/07 Friday 2:30 A.M.:  On the Vista Server, I set up all of the printers, and I have it set to default for the Lexmark E238 which is easiest to turn on from the primary computer control panel.   CIO

Note:<888> 02/23/07 Friday 2:25 A.M.:  I ate a 14.5 ounce can of Green Giant green beans with the dinner.   I prepared them by putting them in a microwave proof plastic pot with lid and the bean can water, and I heated them on one vegetable cycle in the General Electric microwave oven, and I drained the water out of the beans, and I put them in a soup bowl with a little bit of olive oil on them.  I ate the boneless breast of breaded chicken and the rice made the same way too along with a glass of iced tea.   I finished configuring the Vista Longhorn Server Beta two build 6001 February 2007 on the FIC server, and I also have the Office 2007 Professional 60 day demo on it, and in the Outlook 2007 email program, I imported all of my email and address book.   The Vista server does not come with the Media Player, but the Basic Real Player works with it, so it can play audio.   I have the Leadtek TV card Vista drivers loaded, but the Leadtek TV program is not yet available in Vista.  However, since most of it is Vista and Outlook 2007, it is a pretty cleaver server that did not cost anything.   I still have the XP setup on the primary partition.   I will now do some of regular internet work.  On the order Newegg.com - PNY 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail for $159.99 less $1.76 1.1% preferred customer discount, plus $2.99 discount for preferred customer for $155.24 plus $4.99 three day UPS shipping and Rush Order Fee of $2.99 for $163.22 total , the tracking is UPS: Tracking Information , but the NewEgg tracking says it is already in transit to Windsor Locks, Ct. as of 1:42 A.M., so possibly it might be here on Monday.   More than likely it is airborne right now.   CIO

Note:<888> 02/22/07 Thursday 10:45 P.M.:  I installed the Vista Longhorn Server Beta two build 6001 February Microsoft Windows Server code name "Longhorn" Beta 2 Home  on the spare 20 gigabyte partition on the first hard drive on the FIC server, and I configured it, and I am running it on the FIC server.   I probably will switch back and forth between it and the XP IIS sever depending on which system I need to be running.  I will install the Microsoft Office Professional 2007 trial on it shortly Microsoft Office Online .   I chatted with a relative.   I will start making the same dinner as the last four days, but I will also have either canned peas or corn with it instead of frozen corn.   CIO     

Note:<888> 02/22/07 Thursday 3:45 P.M.:   Well, it looks like somebody else besides Bill Gates still has money ABC News: Private Jets Become Flying Palaces .   I wonder if there is any money to be made selling the Arabs toilet paper or not.   What an out house.   I woke up at 1 P.M., and I suppose it is just as well that I did not try to drive out of town today to the Microsoft conference, since it is raining, and it would have been more hazardous to drive up to Cromwell, Connecticut.   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 my bed and washed the breakfast dishes, and I picked up my mail downstairs.   I received some information from BNY Online Banking - Internet Banking about having its retail operations merged with Chase Personal Banking Investments Credit Cards Home Auto Commercial Small Business Insurance .  I was turned down for a www.llbean.com Visa credit card, so I guess I have no credit in America, which shows what happens to a family which stays honest in America after 400 years unlike some of our big City cousins.   Well, I will manage to get by, since I have always lived on a low budget income, and I could always cancel the Optimum Digital Television which I hardly ever watch, since I do not have much time for California type entertainment on my television systems, since I happen to live in Connecticut.   It is the nature of Connecticut, although I only live a 100 Yards from the New York border, that Connecticut tends to keep a closer eye on its residents than New York seems to do.   In other words Connecticut tends to enforce certain laws that the state of New York seems to ignore.  I will now do some regular computer work.  CIO    

Note:<888> 02/22/07 Thursday 6:05 A.M.:   I thought about life in America, and in terms of my current duties, it is what I am best suited too in terms of long term security provided by the local establishment, and as I get older, I might want to pursue other diversions away from the constant activity with the computers, but by American standards of the work ethic, I am suppose to keep doing this a volunteer for the next 8 years and 2 months  and 15 days, until I am 65 year old, at which time I have the option to continue if I wish for as long as I desire or last or can see, however in terms of financial remuneration, it is just the way I manage to keep busy and in the long term it saves money from being diverted by other people's viewpoint of what my spending patterns should be in terms of Hollywood entertainment, dining, travel, etc..   From my viewpoint, when times are good, one should try to keep productive, because when times are not as good, it might take a lot more time to make ends meet in terms of the real world economies around us.   From what I know by being frank and open in disclosure about my activities, it leaves little room for doubt about what my capabilities are in terms of my own experience and education apart from what the profiles are of other people whom I may have encountered over the years.   Thus I tend to stay active in a professional community where lots of the retired professionals have lots of experience with the real world as we know it as opposed to the public relations world of the larger mass of individuals whom live around us.   There are suppose to be 40 million people living within a 100 miles of Manhattan, so obviously I do not try to do it all myself.  This also tends to cause a certain level of activity in this area, when various groups try to move around for their daily work activities.   Around here the daytime people seem to monopolize the world, when in fact, I dare say there are probably still a lot of people awake at night in the New York area all of the time, they just do not drive too many cars at night, since there is not much to see outside of the City.  Well, I am a bit pooped, so I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will try to get some sleep.   I guess I am definitely back on a night time schedule, at least until the first of the month, but I have my usual Monday appointment next week at 4 P.M., and my usual 3 P.M. appointment next Thursday.   Thus although I will miss the Ready for a New Day Launch Tour 2007 at the Cromwell, Connecticut, my own office equipment is doing just fine with the new Vista Ultimate operating system they gave me for beta testing it for 16 months, and more over I have a feeling there are some old time Yankees up there in that part of Connecticut whom want to see if I am still capable of driving a car that far and networking with people and returning after dark in rather heavy traffic.   I do not currently pursue that sort of activity outside of this area, so if they want to see me in action exercise walking on Greenwich Avenue, they have to come down and visit this way, since the State of Connecticut does not permit me the luxury of traveling long distance in case some of my old Taft School Associates The Taft School are better networked in this area than I am, and a lot of them as I recall were smarter in computers and physics, so if they had any ideas they would have already contacted me.   I do know the State of Connecticut has a lot of U.S. Military defense contractors, and as such their activities are monitored by the U.S. Department of Defense for National Security reasons.  In other words as they say in the U.S. Navy www.navy.mil , "Don't Make Waves!".   In other words I am restricted to this area for the indefinite future to continue to maintain my current activities, unless some relative should need my assistance elsewhere.  As far as I know the big shots at Microsoft are not relatives, but my primary family supporter always has the option to change the indefinite future at a moment's notice or on a whim.   Bon Soir.  CIO

Note:<888> 02/22/07 Thursday 4:30 A.M.:  I put a few more fax numbers on the fax machine, so I now have 11 fax numbers on it that might come in handy.   I guess with the internet faxes are considered outdated, but some people find them simpler to operate than complicated computers.   Since I have free long distance dialing in the United States of America, Canada, and Puerto Rico, I sent out a few picture faxes to test the fax numbers.   However, although I am an expert in this current form of communications, I spend so much time maintaining the computer equipment, I do not actually know much of anything that is going on around here except the local printed press Greenwich, Connecticut, Local News, Jobs, Real Estate | Greenwich Time , which I do not have time to look at much anymore.  I did have time to read it in the Greenwich Library this past evening, as I use to do, before our lives became more restricted, and there was an interesting article in the printed version that is not in the internet version.  It said one of the technicians at Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant nearby had gone bizerk and done in some members of his family, but the Nuclear Power facility is suppose to be all right, but none of us would even know how to find it, since we have always been restricted in our travels here.   I once had a friend show me it, but he is now busy with other matters.   From what I know of the facility, since it is near the Rockefeller farm in Westchester County, I presume it would be maintained as well as the other properties in the area, but I do not have any first hand experience with such facilities other than when I was in Laguna Beach, California in the period when Jimmy Carter was elected president, I saw a lot of construction people building the Twin Reactors at San Onofre, California, and I was just out there briefly until 1980 hoping I might find a job in computers, since that was the last full time professional job I had since about 1971 at that point.  Alas only Joel from Xerox Parc dealt with me in Laguna Beach, and Vincent Butler from Santa Cruz, California said he knew my family, and he seemed already established out there.   When I got back east I probably saw a bit more of California than other people usually see traveling around the shoreline all of the time, and I figured out Ronald Reagan probably had problems with Mountain Lions at his ranch like other famous people might have had, so they seek a higher level of security.   Whatever, the case at the time I was not high tech enough for them by California standards, so I just coasted around here until about 1990, when I finally was able to afford to buy a Personal Computer and try to make some sense out of it all.   I guess with all of the extra generating power in that area, that is why so many high companies settled in that area, and even www.geeks.com is near those twin reactors.  As I recall the locals did not seem too concerned, because it meant jobs and development in that area which was just beginning to expand with the build up of the Las Angeles, California area.   However, from what I saw it was warmer there in the fall than the San Francisco area, but it was also a lot busier on weekends, when the Big City people showed up, and there were a lot of retired people in the area to the east in the hills away from the ocean in Laguna Beach, California.   A high school classmate had a father who was a top officer for a construction company that worked on building Hoover Dam, and it seemed to managed to prosper off the extra electricity, and he managed to retire to the old Post Estate in Palm Beach, Florida that Donald Trump redeveloped.   However, although some of my friends have more money, I am not sure they are as high tech as I am, or if they just happen to have better advisors.    I never did manage to find a generator for their house in Ireland, but I think their house in Laguna Beach has enough electricity.  Of course in those day, whenever we went out to try to network with other people, all they did was play loud discotheque music in the pubs, so frequently communications was not very good, when you ran into someone whom might know your back ground.   When I graduated from www.lfc.edu , I use to tell people in Manhattan that I was an Economist that had lived in Alabama, and all that came back at me was that I was a "Communist from Albania", so it shows that Manhattan people are not very good at listening when one chats with them.  In the period before I moved here to Connecticut in 1961, Senator John Sparkman was the head of the Senate defense committee, so he obviously invested a lot of Defense money in Alabama his home state, which is probably why www.nasa.gov was in Huntsville, Alabama.  However with the Cold War going on, one was not suppose to chat about anything that one knew about, and being so close to the facility, we constantly worried about Nuclear attack.   When I moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, all they ever seemed to worry about was Wall Street and the Country Clubs, so I majored in Economics to make more money for Science instead of majoring in Science.  Alas the United States Government has stoned walled me for so many years for their own political reasons which usually revolves around the fact that I am oblivious to politics, that I just finally started doing my own thing like a lot of other retired people.   By not attending computer conferences, I avoid the temptation of trying to reenter the field at an older age for computer people and totally disrupting my current lifestyle which is based on a less stressful existence.   If www.ibm.com has managed to ignore me since 1961, I guess there is no point in waiting for them to call me, and there other equally formidable companies in the area such as www.ge.com which manages to keep the electricity going, and they have a bit of financial clout with General Electric Credit Corporation that last I heard had a half trillion dollar investment portfolio, but Stamford, Connecticut is too busy to try to venture all of the way over there just to see how they make so much money off light bulbs.  It is like New York City, when you go there, all you ever see is a lot of traffic, and one tends to get confused compared to the less commercial area over here in the Italian section of town, where they know what goes on, but since they do not make money off it, they do not pay much attention to it.  I guess once the rich Italians make money here, they move back to the old country in Italy to support their poor relatives in the old home land, but unlike the Italian American whom have never been to Italy, I actually lived in Italy for a while, and the Italians are not that poor, they are just cheap like everyone else.    If you built a nice house say about 500 years ago, there is really no need to improve it, since it would cost way too much to rebuild in terms of modern construction, and from what I can tell, most people would disapprove.   If one were not comfortable enough in the drafty old palazo, one could always rent a small Pied A Terre nearby and walk over to the drafty old house in the daytime when one felt like it.    From what I have seen of major old houses in Europe, they just have a bit of art work, but none of them seem to have much furniture, so I guess the residents and the staff live on the closed upper stories, and not the gallery areas.  Whatever the case out here in the suburbs of New York City, we seem to survive with a simpler existence without the bother of maintaining weekend houses that most of their owners never seem to use, because too much activity preoccupies their time in Manhattan and their travels.   CIO

Note:<888> 02/22/07 Thursday 1:25 A.M.:  Connect: Windows Home Server beta program .   

Note:<888> 02/22/07 Thursday 12:25 A.M.:  At www.lfc.edu for freshman orientation we had to read Joseph Heller's book "Catch 22" , which basically says that everyone is a little bit crazy during a war.   The Catch 22 was if you were crazy, you could get out of the war, but if you could prove that you were crazy, basically you were not crazy or something like that, so you could not get out of the war.  Well anyway, I ordered Newegg.com - PNY 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail for $159.99 less $1.76 1.1% preferred customer discount, plus $2.99 discount for preferred customer for $155.24 plus $4.99 three day UPS shipping and Rush Order Fee of $2.99 for $163.22 total.  I will put the new memory in the primary Vista computer for 3 gigabytes total, and I will move the two PNY 512 meg. PC3200 400 MHz modules to the FIC server along with an identical one for 1.5 gigabytes total, and I will move the Kingston 512 meg. PC3200 400 MHz from the FIC server to the Epox backup computer for 1 gigabyte total.    Thus I will owe www.newegg.com $163.22 plus $225.62 on the Samsung all purpose laser printer, scanner, copier, and fax for $388.84 total.   The PNY memory has a $15 mail in rebate http://images10.newegg.com/uploadfilesfornewegg/rebate/SH/PNY20-178-101Jan29Feb2807cg05.pdf on it, so it will eventually cost $148.22 for the new memory.   Thus for the next two months, I should make $194.42 payments to www.newegg.com to pay off my account.  I can afford it in March and April, since I do not have $165 a month www.cl-p.com payments, and also in March, I do not have a $75 www.geico.com payment, but that is all of the upgrades, I can afford to do until I either win a scratch card or I get my Renter's rebate next Fall.   This is what it normally sells for PNY 2GB Kit (2x1GB) PC3200 400MHz DDR Desktop DIMMs , and if you notice the FINE PRINT, the reason I buy PNY if available is that it has a "Lifetime Warranty" , which with my other purchases over the past I have never had to use yet.   www.compusa.com sells their memory, so they should know.  Current status of the overall setup will be http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm .  CIO 

Note:<888> 02/21/07 Wednesday 11:35 P.M.:  Good deal, but I can not afford it Newegg.com - PNY 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail .  I have other necessities of life besides my computer setup.   It is more important for me to keep moving around the community that just to spend all of my time on the computer.   Since Vista is out of beta and release, I currently have more free time but limited budget.   KVERT: KVERT INFORMATION RELEASES .  Indonesia Pusat Vulkanologi & Mitigasi Bencana Geologi - VSI - Home .  French [Observatoire Volcanologique du Piton de La Fournaise] .  Volcanic Ash Advisories .  White Island Volcano Alert Bulletins .  Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Status Page .  Volcanic Ash Advisories - Darwin VAAC .  Mexico CENAPRED .  Volcanic Ash Advisories - Tokyo VAAC .  Guatemala INSIVUMEH BOLETIN VOLCANES .  EASTERN MOUNTAIN SPORTS : 20% OFF All Racks! .  Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | Managing the Windows Network .   I went through my email.  CIO

Note:<888> 02/21/07 Wednesday 10:15 P.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 chatted with a local shopper carrying a Greenwich Hardware store bag about the fact that I know up until 1983 the Wright Brother's Hardware store in Manhassett, Long Island had all of the repair parts for a lot of those type houses built in the Roaring 20s out in Long Island, so more than likely if they are still there, they would have all of the parts for similar houses we have built out here in this area.   Of course, I no longer can afford to visit out there, and my friends out there do not tell me anything, since they are so busy raising children, and having children they are probably close to broke all of the time with tuition bills, so they do not do that many home repairs anyway.  I noticed a full standard black poodle at the Citibank ATM machine at the Greenwich train station.   I chatted with a local bicycle rider who also plays the guitar downtown, and he gave me his musical CD, "Songs of Peace" .  It you want a copy you can order it from:

Truth Life Ministries

P.O. Box 5

Old Greenwich, Connecticut 06870

(TLM-CD-1) for $5.