Note 08/24/97 Sunday 11:00 PM EDT: I updated Scott's Watch Portfolio in http://www.mikescott.net/stocksym.htm . It is $1,000,002.37. I do not recommend buying or selling stocks, this is an economic experiment to watch how a broad market basket of stocks performs. I have 100 share lots of 147 stocks, and 1 share of BRK/A. I will not be updating the stock links on the page since if one uses Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 beta 2 with http://investor.msn.com one can get the same stock links with my portfolio you can download to use in their portfolio option.

Note 08/24/97 Sunday 9:00 PM EDT: I cleaned my apartment early this afternoon. I went out to Tod's Point to walk around the 2 1/2 mile walk around the park. Tod's Point is limited to Greenwich residents and their guests. I drove back to the center of town and got $14.90 of gasoline at the Exxon gas station. I stopped by McDonald's and had the 20 piece chicken nugget meal for $3.17 . I stopped by Egghead in Old Greenwich and they have a number of clearence software items. I went down town and their is a seaworthy sailboat about 50 feet long from Kiel, Germany. They have a distinguished and smart crew and they seem to have made the trip without too much trouble. There are quite a few other visitors in the area. There was a large group of Mexicans down by Grass Island. Tod's Point seems to have the usual Greenwich group sunbathing, walking and picnicing. The air was clear today without pollution. I am going to work on adding another fifty or so companies to my Microsoft portfolio. I chatted with a fellow from IBM in a red TR6. A lot of people in Greenwich cruise in older cars on weekends. I saw a Model A today. CIO

Note 08/23/97 Saturday 10:00 PM EDT: I doubled the size of the Micorsoft Investor Watch Portfolio at http://investor.msn.com . One can download my watch portfolio from http://www.mikescott.net/scott001.inv . Remember you have to save the file and then open it from the Microsoft Investor MSN site with Microsoft Internet Explorer. The portfolio is worth $685,537.50 . There are 100 share quanities of 89 different stocks in the portfolio. The current portfolio printout is http://www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm .One can follow my portfolio, but I don't recommend buying or selling any of these stocks, this is an academic exercise. I also made two backups of my computer when I got up at 4:00 PM this afternoon. I am cleaned up, so I am going out once I upload this note and the investor portfolio. I will probably add the additonal stocks to my stocks page when I have the time. CIO

Note 08/23/97 Saturday 6:30 AM EDT: First of all CNET screwed up in its news email. They recommended installing the ISDN 1.1 upgrade to speed up ones TCP/IP system. On my system it locked the system because I had already installed the MS DUN 1.2 upgrade and Winsock.dll upgrades. I had to do a step by step F8 boot yesing and not install the windows drivers and then go ahead and install the MS DUN 1.2 upgrade again which I keep on my local hard drive. I then had to reboot and to a F8 step by step boot yesing this time installing the Windows drivers and then after the DUN upgrade completed installation I had to reboot again F8 step by step boot yesing with the Windows drivers and then install the winsock.dll upgrade and then do a normal reboot and the system worked fine. What a pain CNET, although I should have known better. Next I installed the IBM.NET dialer upgrade 4.13. This time it did not mess up my networking system and the system worked fine after installation. I suppose they fixed the problem. I did have to reset the multiplier on my MTU setting from 5 to 6 and left the MTU setting at 1152. I also went ahead and installed the MS Internet Explorer Setup program again doing a quick complete install and letting the system comfigure itself which took about ten minutes. I did this in case the IBM dialer or the DUN upgrade overwrote any newer files in the beta of MS IE 4.0 beta 2. The install did not install a new "winsock.dll" this time like last time. However, the system is working back up to top speed and everything seems fine. I think I will go to bed. Have a good day folks. I did suggest to IBM.NET that they provide a Greenwich, Connecticut access number. CIO

Note 08/23/97 Saturday 2:15 AM EDT: I created a watch account at http://investor.msn.com of 31 of the 32 stocks in http://www.mikescott.net/stocksym.htm not including "BRKA" which does not work. The net value on the account of 100 shares of each is $216,050. As an absent minded Economist I think the stock market is due for a downward adjustment, so lets see what this portfolio is worth over a period of time. Remember I do not recommend buying or selling any of these stocks, this is just my own test watch account. One can download Scott's Investment Portfolio for the Microsoft Investor http://investor.msn.com at http://www.mikescott.net/scott001.inv , it only works with Microsoft Internet Explorer. CIO

Note 08/23/97 Saturday 12:15 AM EDT: I worked on a "Stocks, Symbols, and Quotes" page linked from my homepage. I am a little bushed and need to have dinner and clean up. The list of stocks is a list of popular stocks, and I don't recommend buying or selling them, but I am providing the information. CIO.

Note 08/22/97 Friday 6:00 PM EDT: I finally got a good days sleep today after no sleep yesterday. IBM 800 backup number is no longer active. I checked with IBM about making sure the files in their dialer also include the most recent Microsoft files. We have a nice day here from what I can tell. It seems a number of European visitors are in the area. The area is not too busy, but that is a relative statement. I checked around and the term "Corby's Whiskey" is derived from World World II when people use to drink "Canadian Bootleg Whiskey". Most people don't drink here anymore, but some of the "Old Guard" maintain their longevity is from a couple "shots" every night before they go to bed. Roofers have started working on the slate roof on my building. Immediate family members might be transferred to England. Obviously an old Scottish family or several Scottish families in the area have connections to the United States Steel Corporation. Remember European visitors might be major stockholders in various American enterprises. I have not checked my mail in a day.

Note 08/21/97 Thursday 9:00 AM EDT: KERNAL32.DLL update available from Microsoft Technical Support Help Files, Service Packs, & Other Files . Still raining, I checked certain system setups and updated Pointcast. Time to call it a day. See you all hopefully mid afternoon. CIO

Note 08/21/97 Thursday 5:55 AM EDT: Still raining. I downloaded www.adobe.com Acrobat Reader Plugin about 5 Meg. It works great with the New York TimesFax site, and I was able to print out the seven page summary with my slow laser printer in about the time it took to read it. I suggest that the New York Time print the TimeFax in horizontal form of about a third of a page at a time, so it is easier to read off a monitor without having to scroll down long narrow columns. I recieved another www.msn.com startup disk, but I don't have a CDROM player to use. www.microsoft.com is taking orders for $5 to order the finished Microsoft Explorer 4.0 on the CDROM available on September 30, 1997. I imagine they will have quite a bit more content on it. I suggest that Microsoft give it away at stores for a token $1 or whatever cost of CDROM production is in order to fully promote the product. It is a worthy competitor to Netscape which I have used more since I was working with their bookmark system which Microsoft does not offer. My text to speech demos are simply a demonstration and are not meant to reflect any disrespect or humor. One has to realize that voice impaired individuals might be interested in the concept or even foreign language speaking individuals with a written ability in English. Remember to free up files in the C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\ and the C:\Windows\Temp\ directories. There are a lot of unnecessary files residing there. I freed up 50 megs of file space. Of course don't delete your plugins when asked to save them. I noticed with the 15 inch monitor the TimesFax and Adobe Plugin are easier to read. I believe a lot of U. S. Government Documents are printed and published with the Adobe Reader or at least were at one time. I believe Microsoft would like to replace the HTML with the Microsoft Word format on the internet as a universal way of publishing, lets wait and see. Enough Constant Comment. The numbers 888 was in my hard drive free space return and also on my odometer this evening. CIO

Note 08/21/97 Thursday 2:10 AM EDT: Major weather pattern this morning. Lots of rain in the area. High tide is two feet from the top of the sea wall down by the harbor. Aparently two weather patterns converged over Ocean City, Maryland causing a northeastern type storm. Present forecast is for storm to end this afternoon. No wind to speak of, estimate 5 inches of rain so far. I don't know if there is flooding in Old Greenwich. Telephone truck has been working on the post road downtown for the last 24 hours. I had home made Chinese dinner. I watched "12 O'clock High" with Gregory Peck. The town looks slow. There are a number of "GB" stickers on cars around town this morning. Rain continues in usual pattern for this type of storm. There was a distinct lack of nautical bird life on Tuesday when I was out on the water. Not many people out down town this past evening in the rain. I stopped by the Greenwich Harbor Inn and they seem to be at their usual state of awareness as to the weather patterns. There was a Coast Guard cutter in the harbor on Tuesday that I did not see this morning. The Readers Digest Atlas I have has the geographical map of the world including North America showing the Atlantic shelf and where I believe it goes closer to the coast as one goes up north. I will have to refresh my memory. I chatted with a gal from England on Iphone 5.0 yesterday afternoon and the program seems to work all right. I have to tell people I am a 150 yards from a trans Atlantic cable here, so technically there is not much in between in terms of internet traffic when I use the system at the non busy hours in the UK. A visitor at the Greenwich Harbor Inn is very well briefed on weather patterns along the Atlantic sea board. Technically a tidal wave can not be any higher than the water is deep depending on where one is located. Obviously some people have never surfed. I believe in Hawaii they have 100 foot waves in three feet of water, so it does not make since to me. Of course here in Greenwich we are relatively protected by Long Island. The highest point of land in the area is Bedford, New York in this area and the the altitude keeps on rising all the way up to Montreal, of course with lots of rain there could be flooding in the river and stream basins which might not be happening near the ocean. The most major flooding I ever saw in this area in 35 years was three feet of water where the Greenwich High School is. Of course with lots of rain one always worries about the Valhalla Dam over in Valhalla, New York which is made out of large blocks of stone and looks very solid, but a dam is only as strong as the bedrock I assume it rests on. Of course the lush green grass on the lower side of the dam indicates quite a lot of underground seepage. I believe the Conyer farm resevoir has been rebuilt recently. At present I think I am between five and twenty feet above sea level, and of course my apartment is on the second floor. Thus I don't think there is too much to worry about in this area, but of course with lots of people away we don't have all the regular personnel that we are use to having in this area. The day time crew is more vigilant. CIO

Note 08/20/97 Wednesday 8:30 PM EDT: I had breakfast and cleaned up. I made a couple of realaudio files of the Bell Labs text to speech site converted into RealAudio format. Look at www.mikescott.net/belllabs.htm to see the demonstration. I opened the window to air out the apartment. It looked like it rained today and is nice and cool. Note to use the Bell Labs text to speech site, you need to deletee " _ - : characters out of the text of your message. Also words should not be in all caps.

Note 08/20/97 Wednesday 5:30 PM EDT: Awake updated Pointcast. At 11:00 AM while I was sleeping, a stockbroker from Dean Witter called me and wanted to know if I would be interested in attending an investment seminar sponsored by Dean Witter at Giovannis' restaurant in Stamford. I chatted with him about the economy and explained that I do not own stocks. I am just now starting my day. Perhaps I will go out soon.

Note 08/20/97 Wednesday 7:00 AM EDT: I used the Bell Labs Text-to-Speech site to make a *.wav file of a paragraph of text, however I setup the Netscape 3.0 browser to chose launch a *.wav file with c:\windows\sndrec32.exe , so when the Bell Labs *.wav file came back about 1 Meg, it was able to be saved with the sndrec32.exe program. I save it in radio quality. I then used the RealAudio Encoder 3.0 to encode the 1 Meg file in 3.0 full response file about 80 kbytes long. www.mikescott.net/bellms01.ram is the result.

Note 08/20/97 Wednesday 6:00 AM EDT: I beta tested IE 4.0 beta 2 for a while this morning. It is working fine. I tried the Bell Labs Speech program, but I need to use Netscape to setup to recieve sound with a recordable player. IE 4 uses the default player. I installed the DJ player. IPhone 5.0 disk caches all the time on my system, and is slow and I still have not established voice connection with it, but it does look like it would be better if one had more memory and a faster system. Montserrat activity is in the news. I am burned out again, time to go to bed. Give my best to the day time people.

Note 08/20/97 Wednesday 2:00 AM EDT: I was chatting with the movie theatre manager this evening, and I told him they should make a Hollywood Disaster Movie of a tidal wave caused by an earthquake or asteroid hitting the east coast of the United States or West Coast of Europe with scenes of the Cape Islands like Nantucket and Marthas Vineyard being flooded by the tidal wave. If one reads Melville's description of Nantucket in Moby Dick it sounds like the island had just been hit by a similar tidal wave. This is not a plot to sell land in the midwest but it is of worthy consideration considering the large populations on the Atlantic coasts. I've seen more of the ocean coasts than a lot of people and one always knows the sea is a fickle friend. CIO

Note 08/20/97 Wednesday 1:45 AM EDT: I have finally got my system back up to max internet speed. After all the reinstallation of the networks and DUN upgrade I did last night, this evening I ran MS Internet Explorer 4.0 Setup and did a complete install again which does not take that much time, since it only reinstalls files that have changed. Number 1 it installed a newer "winsock.dll" than the DUN version, also it reconfigures and optimizes ones system. One has to reboot after the program installation to get the new "winsock.dll" to install. Also I changed my "MTU" setting mentioned in note two weeks ago from their default multiplier of 5 to 6. Thus I optimize it, then set MTU to 1152 and multiplier of 6. I am now getting 8+ KBS download speeds from my test page my Ohio site. I download the "ibm01.htm" page which is over 700 Kbytes and watch the stats with the Netscape web browser 3.0 and that gives me the KBS. Thus I am back up to speed. I hope to have time to fiddle with Frontpage 98 some time soon. IBM free 800 number access still working. CIO

Note 08/20/97 Wednesday 12:30 AM EDT: This past evening I stopped by Manero's Restaurant meat department and ordered a steak sandwich for $4.50 and went over to the Island Beach Ferry at 6 PM and rode it out and back to Island Beach on a very pleasent evening picnic. One of my fellow passengers recommended that I read "The Perfect Storm" by Younger which I have now reserved at the Greenwich library. This evening I read the computer trade press at the local library and then went down town for a walk. Greenwich on Tuesday night usually is very slow with a number of younger people out for the movies and a smaller group of visitors around town. Center cut pork chops are $3.99 a pound at the Grand Union, Stauffer's French Bread Pizza is 2 boxes for $5.00, Tropicana Orange Juice is $2.50 a half gallon, plum tomatoes, green peppers other various items are 10 cents apiece, Post Honey Bunches $2.00 a box. One needs the Grand Union savings card to take advantage of sale items and one can obtain the card from the service desk. The price for premium gasoline is about $1.69 a gallon. The hospital thrift shop has a round oak reproduction table and chairs for $400, and a very long modern glass dining table which one would need a moving company to move. I am trying to relax a little while the weather is pleasent in the mid to low 70's F., which is quite enjoyable for this time of year. The library still has limited parking, hopefully more will be available in the next couple of weeks, but construction is running behind. ELDC thrift has a number of modern furniture items, and there is a new antique shop in the same shopping plaza with a number of vintage items. Local news stories seem to revolve around the police department. Mercedes showroom is still under renovation. I drove by Tod's Point on Sunday and it is still a pleasent environment with great vistas of Long Island Sound. I suppose a great many people are away or with this excellent weather they are simply being more active with day time activities surrounding numerous sporting activities in town. Once the business community returns from vacation the normal level activity will resume in town. The air quality was quite good today without pollution. The new monitor is much easier to work with since it is easier to read. Remember I am trying to relax a little bit and take time away from the internet, but maintain my usual routines within the community particularly while the weather is more pleasent. CIO

Note 08/19/97 Tuesday 4:40 PM EDT: I acquired a disgarded 15 inch Compaq 151 FS monitor. It works great on my system and will be a lot easier on the eyes. I'd say it has about 35 % larger screen area and fills the entire screen. Well I guess today is my day. I am airing out the apartment. I plan to go out for a little fresh air myself. Thanks guys.

Note 08/19/97 Tuesday 2:00 PM EDT: I updated the short bookmark today, www.mikescott.net/bm.htm with a few interesting links. I am having to use the IBM 800 backup number since the White Plains number is experiencing trouble. It was one of the nice features of IBM.net access is that they give you a free backup 800 number when their local connection is not working properly. I am out to do errands after I clean up. I have not been out since Sunday evening. CIO

Note 08/19/97 Tuesday 3:00 AM EDT: I worked on tweaking the system for about six hours tonight and this morning with no success. I figure out the internet is getting busier with people returning from vacation and heading back to school. I am getting about 5 KBS from the Ohio Scott's site and the same from the Florida site. I downloaded http://www.vocaltec.com Vocaltec's Iphone 5.0 and installed it, but I could not get it to log onto their server, but I still have 4.5 to fall back on which works just fine. I guess I will have to adjust the settings for 5.0 . I am tired after cleaning the apartment while downloading the program. I guess the system is about as good as I can set it up. I am using the Win95 TCP/IP dialer instead of the IBM dialer, which keep trying to redial after I disconnect. It also uses more resources. Perhaps with a little rest and relaxation it will all seem all right. I have not been outside today, but will try to errands tomorrow afternoon. If there is a site for monitoring the state of the net let me know. I am sure some people will enjoy the addition of the bookmarks to the directory, but I don't plan to work on the bookmarks or the directory anymore. The stats off the Florida server don't justify all the work I have put into the directory over the last three years. Ciao. CIO.

Note 08/18/97 Monday 7:00 PM EDT: I edited the bookmark addon to eliminate Netscape date code and made the page background light yellow and made bold blue links. I also incorporated the bookmark into the scott004.zip download file. I have decided not to post the files scott004.exe and scott4.zip since no one was downloading them. There are about 54,000 links in the overall group of files. This will be the last major update of the directory, however I will continue posting short lists of bookmarks as I collect them on the bookmark page, www.mikescott.net/bm.htm . CIO

Note 08/18/97 Monday 3:00 AM EDT: I created a Bookmarks Alphabetized addon to Scott's downloadable directory. Download Bookmark Addon to Scott's Internet Hotlist "bookalph.zip", 345,784 bytes, unzip into same directory as Scott's Internet Hotlist, such as "c:\scott", new opening page with bookmark link will overwrite existing opening page, "scotlist.htm". File contains an additional 9,000 links alphabetized into seperate files.