Note:<888> 3/31/98 Tuesday 4:40 P.M. EST: I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . I have to do some errands. CIO

Note:<888> 3/31/98 Tuesday 5:30 A.M. EST: I was up about 2 P.M. yesterday. I recieved a letter from the Raven in Germany and he is coming back to the states in Florida on April 17, with his girl friend for a eight week visit. It sounds like he is doing well and keeping busy. I went by the Hospital Thrift Shop and checked out the merchandise. I went out to Tod's Point on the warm day and took the three mile walk around the park. There were lots of mothers and children at the beach. I stopped by the library and read three of the computer newsweeklies. I told a legal official there, there should be more auditing of the government accounts and wall street accounts. I stopped by the dumpster at the office park and picked up an old 286 CPU. I returned home and spend the better part of the next 11 hours upgrading the 286 CPU with a 386 motherboard, floppy drives, 12 megs of memory, and operating system for the fun of it. It still needs a serial LPT port card, so the mouse can work. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . I guess the market is weakening. I am bushed, so I will go to bed after posting this. CIO

Note:<888> 3/30/98 Monday 3:25 A.M. EST: I updated recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm . I also added a link to my homepage for Scotts Company if you are interested in having a green lawn this summer providing it rains enough. It takes a lot of rain to make Greenwich green, so let the rainmakers work on their cleaver business. I have some interesting links on IBM information in the recent bookmarks like the IBM 97 Annual Report as if anyone in the area is really interested. I suppose amongst the movers and shakers Exxon - Shareholder Investment: Stock Quote is important and I think they are suppose to have an Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas towards the end of April. If it is really true the net wealth of the oil barrons approaches five trillion dollars, then the computer business is just their accounting department. Thus if we have any security problems I think we can afford to hire the mecenaries from up in Canada. They are numerous and start about 6'6" tall to over 7' tall and have a sense of humour about the oil business. Have fun where ever you are in this great big world. Basically it is oil money driving up the computer business. CIO

Note:<888> 3/30/98 Monday 1:05 A.M. EST: Yesterday I got up about noon. I cleaned my apartment and watered the plants until about 6 P.M.. I made a family phone call. I had a ham sandwich. I went out for a walk downtown. I came back and watched part of a movie on the television about an Asteroid hitting Dallas. I went back out for a walk during the warm evening. Not much happening around town as far as I can tell. I am finishing up doing laundry. I will do a little net surfing after I fold the laundry. The beginning of this week is suppose to be warm. Reading the reports on President Clinton, I think it is the general consensus of the Republican majority he should have stayed behind at Nelson Mandella's old jail cell. It is an interesting social commentary if the President has been fooling around like many other former presidents, is it the the responsibility of the Secret Service to protect the off spring of the president born out of wedlock. I suppose a thorough investigation might yield more Clinton off spring that he has been trying to shelter. However this is not illegal, but an interesting commentary on the way the American society has evolved. Of course such polygimous activity is common amongst heads of state around the world and many royal families. Thus the media is just picking up on what has been the accepted status quo for quite a long time. I dare say the President fooled around in his hippie days and might have sired other off spring. Perhaps from his Oxford days, there is some British aristocrat lurking in the woods waiting to be discovered. Who knows all this scandal must be leading to some place, just like Greenwich used to be mentioned as the real Payton Place of former lore. I suppose some of the back country liberals are hiding stories, they would rather not repeat. Of course this is all specualtion, and I suppose the internet is giving such a huge challenge to the established media, that they are trying any stories to gain circulation, not that it is any of my business. It seems tabloid journalism is the rule of the day, so why stop here, why not print all the news that is not fit to print. The real story is the general population has become particularly jaded from the saturation of sensationalized media, and they are waiting for the next chapter in the soap opera comedy of American politics. Who knows what will come next? Enough small talk, back to the net. CIO

Note:<888> 3/28/98 Saturday 10:45 P.M. EST: I updated recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm . I will listen to www.ttalk.com for a while now if there are still connections available. CIO

Note:<888> 3/28/98 Saturday 4:45 P.M. EST: I am up just about to have breakfast. I tweaked my system a bit and I don't seem to be getting the disconnects. When one installs MS Dun 1.2 it installs Network drivers which I don't think one needs for a modem connection. From Networking I delete the network drivers and just kept "Client for Microsoft Networks, Dialer, and TCP/IP". I also set my modem speed to 115,200. In testing the setup briefly I have not disconnected when opening and closing winsock and other applications. When deleting the network items, you will be prompted for your Win95 disks and keep newer files. Time to listen to www.dailybriefing.com while making breakfast. CIO

Note:<888> 3/28/98 Saturday 4:25 A.M. EST: I surfed the web and read my email for links. I have not edited them yet. I listened to be BBC World Summary which is now the right Loche on my homepage. I am a bit bushed. I will have to bow out shortly. CIO

Note:<888> 3/27/98 Friday 11:20 P.M. EST: Today I was up at 2 P.M.. It was 80 degrees out today. I drove downtown at 3 P.M. and picked up an acquaintence and drove him up to Ridgefield via New Canaan. I then drove down Route 7 and stopped by a friend's house in Wilton for a barbeque ribeye steak dinner on the gas grill. While sitting out in the back yard observing the local nature I noticed about 17 crows flying south and about a 100 Canadian Geese flying up North in V formation. I also noticed several trans Atlantic jets coming in from Europe heading out west. I went downtown in Greenwich after returning and had a cup of coffee at Starbucks. I noticed the Avenue was full of cars with lots of people dining and going to the movies. The late showing of the movie Grease had lots of teenage girls lined up to go to it, and later a large group of teenage boys were seen hanging out in front of the theatre. I suppose once the rents get inside the kids go out and play. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . Thus I am back to a similar bell weather portfolio tracking process. I will do a little net surfing this evening. I have not read my email in a day. The weather is suppose to be warm all weekend long. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888> 3/27/98 Friday 7:00 A.M. EST: I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . The old portfolio has been slightly changed to reflect mergers and acquistions. Since the new version of http://investor.msn.com did not recognized some of the stocks in the old portfolio, I had to buy and sell some dozen stocks and also estimate the buy value of 13 stocks that it did not recognize. I have no idea what the net worth of the old portfolio would be in the new portfolio setup. Obviously if I had this problem other users of the new version 5 might be having problems. I am bushed and it is time to go to bed for the day. CIO

Note:<888> 3/27/98 Friday 1:40 A.M. EST: Thursday was a normal day in Greenwich. I went out about 2 P.M. . I stopped by the Hospital Thrift Shop and everything is once again half price. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I drove downtown and walked around a bit. I went by the library and read the four weekly computer publications I usually read. I chatted with one of our local financial wizards. I gave him my viewpoint of the tech sector and the economy in general. I went back down by the waterfront. I drove over to grass island and observed the harbor. I went by the dumpter at the train station office park. They have lots of office equipment they have tossed out. I picked up a 15 inch Compaq monitor that is probably broken. I will have to test it some time. I went back downtown to CVS and bought two more jars of peanuts for $3 with the dollar off coupon. I went by the senior center and walked around downtown and chatted with a few acquaintences. There seem to be some out of town visitors which is the norm for this area. I came home at 8 P.M. and had Krauss ham, beans, potatoes, orange soda, and coffee for dinner. I listened to the BBC news broadcast . I put links from the Loch Ness Monster icons at the top of my homepage to the BBC news and BBC news audio broadcasts, so click on "Old Loche" for the news. Remember coal miners can dig deep holes. I was informed by the BBC news that Boris Yeltsin is incoherent, and his second in a command a 35 year old fellow is running the show over in Moscow. From a medical viewpoint, it does not sound like he is drinking, it seems like he has Parkinsons or Alseimers Disease. I went back downtown at 10 P.M. and the police were maintaining a noticeable presence in front of the movie theatre and train station because there have been narcotics problems in the area and the youth have been unrulely. I imagine the Greenwich Police with its reserves have amble time to keep an eye on any suspect areas around town. I stayed downtown until about 11:30 and went to the Grand Union for a half gallon of milk and a jar of peanut butter. I then went over to the food emporium for a bottle of sparkling Concord grape juice on sale for $2 a $1.50 off. I chatted with one of the Alpine Ski patrol working there and advised him that the British were skiing in Whistler, Canada probably because there is no snow in Europe with the warmer weather this winter. He was upset that a million people were killed in Rawanda, and I told him a lot of people are supposedly dying in Albania. Thus the Arkansas news stories in terms of the world perspective actually shows that we are lucky to live in a relatively safe country by worldwide standards. www.vita.org Volonteers in Technical Assistence publish reports on World problems which frequently don't make our local papers. I mentioned to our local ski person that 20 million people starved to death in Russia during World War II and I don't think the Russian people will forget or ever let down their guard despite what various propaganda agencies might say. This is one of the first lessons of Russian studies, so take it from there. http://investor.msn.com Microsoft Investor is not working tonight, so I can't update Scott's Index. An acquaintence wants me to visit the Abby Aldridge Rockefeller museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut tomorrow afternoon; but I am not sure I want to face all the traffic going up there tomorrow. I have driven by it many times, but I don't believe I have ever visited it; but I walked by her townhouse on the East side of Manhattan thousands of times. I believe Phillip Johnson designed the townhouse, in the "Rock Modern" motiff. I looked at Country Life magazine today, and it was amusing what the Brits are trying to sell. There is a Christopher Wren style house for sale in a suburb that begins with "G" outside of London where the POW makes his home if you want to be their neighbors. I quite frankly would rather be in Marbelia, Spain in the winter and Stockholm, Sweden in the summer with the Spring and Fall in London and Paris and around the Continent. I better be careful I might get my wish. Well off to "Never Never Land on the Internet", lets hope the Feds don't start dictating to the diplomats. I advise any fed to occassionally listen, since they certainly never tell us anything we don't already know. Over and out from the Voice of a European American surrounded by curious visitors. CIO

Note:<888> 3/25/98 Wednesday 11:00 P.M. EST: I updated Quotes www.mikescott.net/quotes.htm for your financial investing pleasure. I also incorporated it into the downloadable file at www.mikescott.net/download.htm . That about it for the day folks. Alls well that ends well. CIO

Note:<888> 3/25/98 Wednesday 8:35 P.M. EST: I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . The http://investor.msn.com site has a new portfolio program which is not recognizing 13 of my quotes in the portfolio. Hopefully this will be fixed by Microsoft soon, so I had to approximate the portfolio value based on the existing quotes. I went out at 5 P.M. and went down by the water to enjoy the view. I stopped by the library and chatted with a local financial advisor. I went by the Grand Union and bought two half gallons of apple juice for .69, to GU fresh orange juice half gallons for $1.79, one half gallon GU Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice for $1.79, two "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" for .99. At the Arnold Bread Outlet I purchased 2 loaves of Branola grain bread for .99 cents each, and they gave me St. Patrick's Day cake. I stopped by CVS and with the circular coupon from the circulars in the front of the store I purchased two 16 ounce jars of Planters Honey Roasted peanuts for $3 for both. The coupon is good for a $1 off two making it $3. I also purchased two 16 ounce bags of jelly eggs or jelly beans for .99 each. I have dinner of Kraus ham, aperagus, potatoe, gingerale, and coffee. I think I will go out for a short drive after I post this and then possibly watch a videotape "A Man of No Importance". I noticed in the British Press today that Prince Phillip is in Trinidad, and Prince Charles and the boys are skiing in Whistler, Canada, royal extremes. This week they are deliverying the Greenwich Times for free trying to get people to take advantage of the $2 a week subscription offer for home delivery. CIO

Note:<888> 3/25/98 Wednesday 3:45 P.M. EST: I updated recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm . I will listen to www.dailybriefing.com while I shower and clean up before going outside. CIO

Note:<888> 3/25/98 Wednesday 2:20 P.M. EST: Scott's Free Site in Ohio www.rcch.com/hotlist/scotlist.htm is no longer available. I edited the directory to reflect this. I also edited the directory, so that Titles appear in the top of the web browser for the directory pages. Scott's site in Ohio was free for three years, but all good things have to come to an end. Thanks Kent for the site. Scott's site in Florida www.mikescott.net will continue. CIO

Note:<888> 3/25/98 Wednesday 9:15 A.M. EST: I updated www.mikescott.net/software.htm . I uninstalled Outlook 98, but kept Outlook 98 Express. Outlook 98 looks good, but I don't have enough room for it, and also I have a hard time reading the interface with the colors it comes with. CIO

Note:<888> 3/24/98 Tuesday 7:30 P.M. EST: I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . I downloaded and installed Microsoft Outlook Express 98 Microsoft Outlook 98 -- Get Outlook 98 . I did a full install which was about a 19 meg download for me taking about 2 hours. It also reinstalled Netmeeting and other bells and whistles. After configuring Netmeeting and Outlook Express, I will stop by the library this evening. Outlook Express I think is only good for 90 days. CIO

Note:<888> 3/23/98 Monday 7:00 P.M. EST: I updated recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm . For some reason the Ohio site www.rcch.com/hotlist/scotlist.htm is not working although, the FTP program shows the files are on the site, very mysterious. I will have to send out the troubleshooter again. CIO

Note:<888> 3/23/98 Monday 5:45 P.M. EST: I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . I went out this afternoon and stopped by the Hospital Thrift shop. They have a 14 inch aluminum French skillet for $22. I stopped by the waterfront on Steamboat Road and it was a nice day out. I chatted with one of my former neighbors. I noticed the somebody had picked up the computer tapes at the office park. I went by the library and the steel construction of the new Peterson addition is still progressing. I think the new wing will be larger than most people envisioned. I went by the Grand Union and picked up groceries, like a Krauss ham, Stauffer Lasagna, Tony's pizza, asperagus, Pepperide Farm parmesian crackers, apple juice, etc. I came home and relaxed a while and updated my site. CIO

Note:<888> 3/23/98 Monday 6:10 A.M. EST: Another all nighter. I uninstalled Pointcast which freed up a 100 megs of files, MS outlook express, MS Music Controls, and MS Netmeeting and then downloaded Lotus Notes http://www.notes.net/gold free 90 day demo which took 2 1/2 hours for the 39 meg compressed file and 160 meg to install. Unfortunately I only have 16 megs of memory which is not enough to run it successfully, so I uninstalled it. While downloading it, I thought about where Atlantis was probably located, and figured out that it was east of San Francisco in the area of the San Jauguin Valley around Antioch. Obviously when the oceans were 400 feet higher, the Valley was the inland sea, and a great nautical civalization existed between the sea and the ocean, under the land between the ocean and the sea was breached by volacano and earthquake flooding out everything in between as the sea rushed into the ocean, and wrecking a lot of good waterfront property. I now have 250 megs of free disk space which is almost enough to install Win98 if I had a CDROM drive and possibly a little bit more memory. I can always use the space for the new Outlook Express out in April. Have a good day, and give my best to the mercenary army. Somebody should check and see if the camper at the board of education is young enough to join the French Foreign Legion. I hear tell they will take you until age 45. Bye now folks. CIO

Note:<888> 3/23/98 Monday 12:10 A.M. EST: I went back to bed after breakfast and awoke at noon, and chatted with family members on MCI's five cents a minute plan. I cleaned my apartment and watered the plants while listening to www.ttalk.com 's Saturday broadcast. I went out at 4 PM and stopped by the library . I chatted with George Bush's campaign chairman from Tennessee and he said he had a memory chip plant he was interested in selling. He also mentioned that he knew the pilot on Air Force One who would be an Air Force general. I said it costs so much to fly that plane, it would be better to save the money and not use it so much unless Boeing wants to pay for advertising its product. I believe the plane has to be reconfigured every time it flies out of the country. Remember Debeer controls the diamond trade and they would never put all their eggs in one basket. I then went downtown and chatted with the propieter of computer playhouse about tech. I met up with my dinner guest and we came back here for Turkey Tettrasini and watched Jewel of the Nile which was not as good as the earlier version. I went back downtown and noticed the camper was still at the Board of Ed. I stopped by the police station to see who was on the night shift. Basically they are not too interested in the internet or they would be blind as bats from looking at monitors all the time. I suppose with George Bush Jr. running for the republican presidential nominee during the next eletion we will have more republican operatives showing up in the area. Remember they represent large groups of people much like the United Nations diplomats and staff. The gentleman from Tennessee spoke highly of Vanderbilt Univerisity's Tech facilitlies. I just finished my laundry and will now probably do a little web surfing and go to bed. CIO

Note:<888> 3/22/98 Sunday 6:50 A.M. EST: Yesterday I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop. I drove down by the water. At the loading platform at the Greenwich Train Station office park on the lower level, somebody has digarded about 200 12 inch computer reel tapes. There is the logo of a British Insurance underwriter on disgarded stationary next to the tape reels. I think those tape reels cost about $200 apiece, so that would be about $50,000 in computer tapes; not to mention the information on them might possibly be valuable. Seems rather strange, but there are a bunch of odd balls that work in that office building anyway. I went by the Greenwich Library and chatted with a local attorney. I suggested to him that the town might use the Walden Pond case that another local attorney Vandenpool from Harvard tried to use as an example of of defending the rights of the town in the Tod's Point beach case. Basically the case was tried I believe in the 1920s when developers in Concord, Massachussetts wanted to develop the land around Walden Pond. There might be some sort of legal president in that case. After reading the computer press I went back home for lunch. After coffee I went back downtown. I was parking across from the senior center and noticed that there is somebody camped out in a sleeping bag at the Board of Education portico. I can't tell whom it is because they were huddled up in the sleeping bag. I went for a walk downtown. I chatted with one locals who was upset that the cablevision is showing a Ukranian program where contestants fight to the death, and also Asians are murdering children in some sort of primative activity over there. He said he had heard about some cult that like to kill children and make videotapes of it for redistribution. I guess since I don't watch television I don't get all these gruesome stories. Another local told me that Greenwich has major narcotics problems, and I suggested to them that they should bring a Federal Strike force. I then went by the library and chatted with Burns Security. The library was busy and I checked out a videotape "Jewel of the Nile". I came home and used Ragu Alfredo sause, chopped garlic, defrosted turkey, canned mushrooms, wine, colored noodles and made my own version of Turkey Tettrasini. After coffee I went down town for another walk. I noticed the computer tapes are still there at the office park loading platform at the Greenwich train station. In walking around the avenue, I noticed quite a few people out and about. I noticed the same person was sleeping in the sleeping bag at the Board of Education building portico. About 10 P.M., I got in and tried to call IBM about the computer tapes, but they were not interested. I chatted with the New Haven FBI office about what was going on around here, and they did pay attention. I suggested that government censors should censor programs like the Ukranian "Fight to the Death" program.

New Haven, Connecticut FBI Office 203-777-6311

Bridgeport, Connecticut FBI Office 203-333-3512

New Rochelle, New York FBI Office 914-633-6000

For some reason SNET does not list the FBI offices in the telephone directory in the Blue Pages, of government listings.

After chatting with them I went to bed and was up at 6:00 A.M. this morning. I will listen to www.ttalk.com while I clean my apartment after breakfast. There is a powdering of snow out that might have ice outside. CIO