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[From the archives: 4.18.96 1419]

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[Note: This was originally written back when I was hand-coding my pages. Original entry is here.]

Last night (well, actually a week or two ago, but I just investigated it last night) one of the Woodys told me about the Made with Macintosh campaign promoting websights using Macintosh compters in their design, so I joined the campaign and added the logo to the bottom of my main page. Also finally got around this morning to translating my resume into html format, and it’s up and running. Nifty keen…

[From the archives: 4.3.96 0634]

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[Note: This was originally written back when I was hand-coding my pages. Original entry is here.]

Wow. I finally got all this finished, and it took until now for me to do anything else with it. Gerf. Ah, well. What did I do? Well, I found a nifty little place right about here that lets you set up a free counter for your pages, so I put one up on my main page and one up on my Web Wide Woodys page. Wow…let’s see if anyone’s actually stopping by. (grin)

[From the archives: 1.21.96 0639]

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[Note: This was originally written back when I was hand-coding my pages. Original entry is here.]

I actually have been doing some occasional work on my pages lately, just haven’t done much in the way of recording it here, just because few of them have been very major. The one major thing is that I’ve worked my ‘shameless promotion’ page into a changing schedule of things going on at the two clubs I’m dj’ing at, The Lost Abbey and Gig’s Music Theatre. Added a © notification to A Fable For Our Times, after the author got in touch with me and told me it was a copywritten work. He did let me keep it around, though, which I’m very grateful for…it’s a piece I really enjoy. I’ve also gotten submissions for a couple more people for my Web-Wide Woody’s page, and will be putting those in later tonight. Quite honestly, working on keeping myself awake for the next few hours. (grin) Ah, well. That’s it for now, then.

[From the archives: 1.8.96 0212]

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[Note: This was originally written back when I was hand-coding my pages. Original entry is here.]

Just a couple of quick changes at the moment. I’ve got a few more planned, but they’ll have to wait, as I’ve just been invited out to coffee at VI (Village Inn), and we must have our priorities, mustn’t we? (grin) Anyway…changed the ‘puter section of my main page to reflect the fact that I now have a whopping 20 Mb RAM in my machine. No, I’m not the least excited about this. (big ol’ cheezy grin) Also, as usual, a few more cd’s in my collection.

[From the archives: 1.3.96 0257]

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[Note: This was originally written back when I was hand-coding my pages. Original entry is here.]

Okay, changed some things around again. At the request of someone who e-mailed me, I have brought my page about the new teen curfew law back online. To do so took a little bit of space, though, so I zapped some of the older documents here…the bit on why Santa can’t exist, the Net Cruisers Anonymous flyer, and the flyer I did for Gig’s (but never actually put out on the streets) a couple of weeks back. (shrug) Change is the only constant in the universe…that and the beauricratic mentality.

[From Usenet: 4.9.95 2300]

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[Note: This was originally a post to the comp.sys.mac.system Usenet newsgroup. I’m including it here for completeness. Originally archived here.]

In article <jgrabill-0204952317270...@jgrabill-ppp.clark.net>,
jgrab...@clark.net (John N. Grabill) wrote:

In article <3ktmaq$...@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, jscor...@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Dover) wrote:

> ok, i just downloaded the 7.5.1 update installed it and decided to play with the new speech manager. unfortunately the voice on it keeps skipping like when you talk facing a really big fan. :-(

> I’m using a IIsi if this makes a difference… is fred to complex a voice for my computer?! I used to have bruce on without probs…

The IIsi has a documented problem with the connection between the speaker and the motherboard. Cleaning the contacts between the speaker and the motherboard and the problem should go away, for awhile. Connecting an external speaker fixes it forever.

Thing is, this happens to me, too…and I’m on a IIvx (well, Perf600 with an added FPU and Sys7.5). The ‘main’ voices (Bruce and Agnes, I think) work fine, but all the ‘secondary’ voices (Zarvox and the like) have the fan-stutter in them. Any other ideas?

[From Usenet: 3.26.95 1508]

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[Note: This was originally a post to the comp.sys.mac.system Usenet newsgroup. I’m including it here for completeness. Originally archived here.]

In article <tresyk-2103951347530...@blv-pm0-ip14.halcyon.com>, tre...@halcyon.com (Tresy Kilbourne) wrote:

My Mac has developed a will of its own. Lately it has taken to dialing up my Internet server at random times during the day, usually around 2 PM and sometimes around 7. I use MacTCP and a PPP connection. I have no unusual utilities (such as QuickKeys) that might be sending a connect AppleEvent to MacTCP, so I am at a loss to understand what’s going on. Any ideas? Please reply via email. thanks.

I’d suggest seeing if you have Eudora running when your computer tries to connect. Eudora can be set to check the mail at intervals, at which time it checks MacTCP to see if a connection is up. If not, then it’ll attempt to make one, which could prompt the beahvior. Just an idea…there may be other Mac i-net programs with a similar setup, could be worth checking…