Note 10/10/97 Friday 2:45 AM EDT: Did some routine netsurfing this morning. Munched out on Grapes and CheeseIts. Reorganized the homepage a bit. Need to surf, try www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm for a few handy links. I will now uninstall and reinstall IPhone 4.5 and 5.0 to reactivate them. Lets hope this does not criple "Explorer.exe", like happened last week. CIO "Chief Information Officer".

Note 10/09/97 Thursday 10:45 PM EDT:Today I made it to my 3 PM appointment. One person told me it takes five minutes for Windows NT to load. I stopped by Tods Point in Old Greenwich and enjoyed the view from the southeast section which is nat free. The southwest section was full of nats on a non windy day. I bought groceries, and had a steak for dinner. I was told they are going to start painting the trim on my building soon. I still wish they would pay for the electric heat, because sooner or later it will get cold here despite the 80 degree day here today and I would prefer adequate heat in my apartment to prevent my arthritis from acting up which I don't think is too much to ask of the Federal government considering the amount of time I have volonteered my services in my lifetime, not to mention the efforts of my fellow tenants. My attitude is not to vote in the next election and let the chips fall where they may. When Lowell Weicker was governor of Connecticut we had our heat paid for. Obviously no one of any importance in the Republican or Democratic parties cares enough about the tenants in this building to offer them electric heat which was included during the first eight years we lived here. All of the other public housing projects in Greenwich include the heat in the rent which for some technical reason this place does not. Basically my fellow tenants say they are, "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul". I stopped by the library after dinner and read PC Magazine. There was a good article on Bill Gates' summer hideway in Washington where he held a conference. I was told by the librarian it is very noicy in the library in the daytime with all the construction going on outside. They are preparing the site for the new Peterson addition. I went for a walk downtown after the library closed and there were quite a few people out for dinner and drinks who obviously are daytime people. Greenwich Avenue is always good for people watching. I did notice the police responding to a call at Citibank, possibly a broken door. Also I noticed the street light across from Citibank and the train station is burned out. I suggested to one of the Greenwich Librarians that they put a time capsule in the new addition, and also they might publish some information from the local paper such as obituaries which they could scan and post, or any other useful community information. They are still working on the roof outside my window. They plan to pitch it and resurface it. Now for a night of net activity. CIO

Note 10/09/97 Thursday 12:15 AM EDT: I updated www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm Current Bookmarks. I will probably surf a little and check out www.ttalk.com . CIO

Note 10/08/97 Wednesday 9:30 PM EDT: I stopped by the library and read Byte magazine. I took a walk down town. It is quiet for a Wednesday night. It is a bit polluted today, but the temperature is comfortable for this time of year. The Greenwich Police are maintaining routine sidewalk patrols during the evening hours. I will do a little routine work this evening. CIO

Note 10/08/97 Wednesday 5:30 PM EDT: Today I picked up the Volvo at the Exxon station at noon. They replaced the timing belt and valve cover casket for $400. They replaced the starter motor which was under warranty for free. The car is running great particularly now that the timing is correct. I read the computer trade press in the library. They are chopping down the trees in front and removing the old masonry to start working on the new addition. The new parking lot is open now. I picked up some sconses at the Mews thrift shop for $10 that I hung over the dining room table. I need to take a nap. CIO

Note 10/07/97 Tuesday 4:30 AM EDT: I added Internet Explorer Products Download Addons to my MS IE 4.0 setup. I now have about 60 Meg free hard disk space. I need to figure out how to free up some space. The addons took about an hour to download for me this past morning. I checked with Exxon next to the library. The problem with my car is that the starter motor they put in several months ago was catching the flywheel. The are going to replace it for free. I am also having them put on a new timing belt and replace the valve cover gasket and set the timing. The car should be ready in a couple of days. I will thus be immobile until then. Since my legs have been bothering me all summer, I can not walk that far such as into town. I will have to sit back and relax and enjoy my apartment. The roofers are still working on the flat roof removing the asbestos and installing the new covering. The masons are still working on the chimneys. While taking a short stroll on West Putnam Avenue, I noticed the old post office building for lease would be an excellent sight for a CVS drugstore. I have enough food and supplies to survive until my car is ready. I will try doing some routine computer work. I noticed my million dollar portfolio www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm is up about $55,000 since I published it. Today is warm and comfortable, I wish I could be out enjoying it more. CIO

Note 10/07/97 Tuesday 3:00 AM EDT: Routine work this morning. CIO

Note 10/06/97 Monday 8:30 PM EDT: I made my Monday appointment at 4 PM. I drove around by Grass Island and enjoyed the view of the water on this warm day. The new library parking lot is now open. I read the computer press. I dropped my car off at the Exxon station to have the timing repaired. It should be ready when I get up tomorrow afternoon. I walked back to my building at 6 PM to find out that the Housing Authority has sub contractors working on the roofs above my apartment and outside of the windows removing asbestos. I turned off the air conditioner to keep the dust from coming in. They have an inspector on the job. I guess the subcontractor prefers to work at night. They have set up containment areas to contain the removed asbestos. It is a little bit noisy right now. I will try to work on the computer while they are doing this. CIO

Note 10/06/97 Monday 3:30 AM EDT: Updated www.mikescott.net/bm.htm . Will start slowing down and get ready for bed. CIO

Note 10/06/97 Monday 1:00 AM EDT: This afternoon I read the computer press in the Greenwich Library. I noticed one URL www.ubn.co.uk that might be of interest. Steamboat Road had a number of visitors. At Tod's Point there were a number of families enjoying the beach. The black tie crowd were at the Hyatt with two minature black and white horses. At Westchester airport the jets were coming and going and the parking area was filled, so lots of people are away. One can smoke cigarettes at the bar at Westchester Airport. Since I don't travel much anymore it is fun to watch people coming and going. The Grand Union supermarket in Glenville needs to put a guard railing on the south exit door. When it swings open it can knock someone over. Dole produce is inexpensive for California red grapes. Downtown this evening there were the usual number of kids in the pubs and a very few movie goers. I suppose the day time crew will be out in full force tomorrow morning. CIO

Note 10/05/97 Sunday 3:00 PM EDT: Today I am finishing up cleaning the apartment and watering the plants. On Friday evening I had a couple of friends over for dinner. We went down to Newark, New Jersey Airport to drop off one of them for a morning flight to Daytona, Florida. Newark airport is quite deserted during the early morning hours with a coffee shop open and no pubs open. One had to stand outside to have a cigarette. We stopped by the Marriott Hotel at Newark Airport and its restaurants and bars were also closed. They have a nice hotel at the airport with vistas of the Port Elizabeth area of New Jersey. The departing passenger thought the deserted airport would be good for skate boarding. Saturday I went to Tod's Point with one of the friends and went out to Pizza Hut in Glenville for Pizza. I got up at noon today. It is in the 80s today. My mother said the Queen Elizabeth II cruise ship is up cruising in Maine. CIO

Note 10/03/97 Friday 5:45 AM EDT: When I started the computer today, explorer.exe the file browser was crashing. The only thing I did before that was uninstall and reinstall Iphone 4.5 and 5.0. I had to log onto the internet and run MS IE 4.0 setup and do a complete install which does not actually download but reinstalls the *.cab files on the local hard drive. This fixed the problem. However, the active desktop did not install, so I ran MS IE 4 setup again and only upgraded newer components, and the system with active desktop was back to normal. Power Toys was still installed. I turned off pictures on MS IE 4.0 to have it browse faster. Today I bought a Pansonic Electric typewriter at the Hospital Thrift Shop for $10 for typing envelopes and large mailing folders. I noticed quite a lot of Florida license plates around town, so I guess the people from up north are traveling south for the winter. It was good to see all the snow birds. I watched the FBI hearings on CSPAN about Organized Crime while doing the computer repairs. The India Indian masons are still working on the building chimneys. They are going to repair the flat roof outside my windows soon, I am wondering if I should take the air conditioner out not or wait until the roof coating is dry. Three years ago when they did it, I went out to take out the air conditioner and the roof coating was still liquid like wet tar although they use a plastic compound. I will do some work on the internet this morning now that I have the system repaired again. I also bought Niacimide at the health store. I also found out that Bank of New York only charges $5 a month for personal internet accounts. CIO

Note 10/02/97 Thursday 7:00 AM EDT: Look at Internet Explore 4.0 Tips and Tricks . I backed up my computer successfully. I have over 100 meg free space now. I keep my Microsoft system upgrade files in a folder, so I don't have to download them if god forbid I ever have to reinstall the system from a backup. CIO

Note 10/02/97 Thursday 2:30 AM EDT: I suggest looking at Microsoft Technical Support Help Files, Service Packs, & Other Files for updated files. I just installed six new files that have been posted in the past months. I also added Channels to IE 4.0. I need to free up a little disk space. CIO

Note 10/01/97 Wednesday 11:30 PM EDT:I downloaded MS Internet Explorer Powertoys and I recommend looking at New 32-bit Apps at Stroud's CWSApps List . I also stumbled across this MS JAVA Internet Explorer 4.0 Features link. I can not get FrontPage Express to Hyperlink with MS IE 4 but only Netscape hyperlinks with it, there must be a fix. MS IE 4 is working great on my system, and I am most pleased with it. It seems faster. I have the Active desktop installed which takes getting use to. I paid my rent this morning and I paid my auto insurance to www.geico.com . While at the First Union Bank paying my rent, I noticed a dozen Japanese business men standing in front of the bank building. I chatted briefly and gave them my internet address and mentioned the Winter Olympics coming up in Japan and the fact that my directory had a volcano www.mikescott.net/058.htm category. I noticed that one was wearing an IBM name tag. I noticed the Watson's flag was flying today. I slept this afternoon and past evening. I guess I will be up all night again. I need to get a new Travan 1 tape to make a backup of my system. The old tapes don't seem to work reliably. CIO

Note 10/01/97 Wednesday 9:20 AM EDT: Note I was able to correct the JAVA problem in MS IE 4 by going to "Add Remove" programs and uninstalling Microsoft JAVA VM and then rebooting. Then I ran the MS IE 4 setup program and reinstalled it. I did not have to redownload it since it is already on the hard disk. JAVA seems to be working fine now. If you use Realaudio Pro the setup program won't overwrite your advanced version. CIO

Note 10/01/97 Wednesday 8:00 AM EDT:Internet Explorer 4.0 downloaded and installed basically without any problems. I did have to reconnect a couple of times. It took about seven hours from midnight to 7 AM. On rebooting the system did give me error messages that the *.cab JAVA files were not being installed, however IE 4.0 seems to work fine. I took two naps during download and baked a cake. I have to pay my rent and insurance this morning. CIO