March 2005

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February Issue Ascii


Essential Reading
 

Monthly we present our Internet Humor column. It deserves attention because of its popularity. These snippets of jokes and spoofs come from many places usually without the author's name. Such is the tradition of Internet Humor.

MUST READ LIST
No surprise, there continues to be great interest in Karen Botwright's Paradox tutorial. For those of you who have had difficulty finding this series of articles click HERE. Also note her recent JAVA2 series is available in PDF for download.

For months Jeff Richards kept our readers waiting to read his newest installment of Virus Hunter. For first time WW readers, enjoy his digital whimsy in its entirety. For "died in the wool fans", it holds up the second time around. As promised, we put it all together in PDF and zipped it for an easy download.

Martin Naef takes us from exciting science fiction worlds into those of Virtual Reality. Or Herb Chong's series of useful articles for graphics newbies, the last of the three first: The Art of Scanning. The second explored the ins and outs of  Creating Email-Friendly Images : the first was Color Matching  For Beginners .


Featured Articles
 

Selling Bush's Social Security "Reform"

 

 

The Swiftboat Consultants Attack AARP !

(1) The lobbying group, USA Next, having poured millions of dollars into GOP policy battles, now says it plans to spend as much as $10 million on commercials and other tactics assailing AARP, the powerhouse lobby opposing the private investment accounts at the center of Mr. Bush's plan.
(1) Glen Justice; Feb. 21, 2005; NYTimes


This month Karen Christle continues her new tutorial series, - Oracle's HTML DB. The Oracle 10 G Data Base: HTML DB introducing the many new features. This includes the concept of a database that works in a grid computer environment. This month she discusses Creating Tables. As always Karen Christle describes verbally and graphically how to get started using these tools. Her consistent appeal is clarity!

 

This month, Martin Naef looks at the newest version of Cakewalk Sonar 4. He is actively looking for new features in this latest version and when he finds them describes them in detail. Yet Another Version, answers his question of "I wonder if they will manage to "wow" me again?" You'll have to read his article in order to find out!

 

Jeff Richards' follow-up article to his earlier *Net Note, is called More Reflections on Reflection. This time he describes how one can use Reflection to get Attribute information from an assembly, and make it a useful, reusable component for all one's .NET programs for the future .

 

This month, the Editor talks about the controversy around Cox-2 Inhibitors. She talks about what patients are told from their doctors who seemingly have little more knowledge than do the people they prescribe to. Bottom line? The role of money and objective findings and recommendations from the FDA.

 

Internet Humor is always fun. However we must confess that the authors of this wit are too often unknown as are the the sources that provide them.

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When Donna Baker launched her new tutorial series featuring the Australian answer to Flash, it was almost an unknown product. But times do change! This soft-ware, to quote Baker, is sweeping the planet. SWiSHmax is animation software that Donna Baker will walk us through. Her sixth article in this series, The SWiSHmax World-Part 6 continues our new adventure as she introduces us to the features of SWiSHzone. These months have been an interesting and fun ride. At the end of her piece are URLs to the earlier articles.

 

Dan Christle earliest work was in the area of privacy and how the Internet makes that more difficult to maintain. This month he discusses the hidden threats to both individuals and the international economy. Spyware: Is Your PC Watching You? is an overview of one of the most destructive assaults on individuals and the Internet as we know it.

 

Peter Neuendorffer had his first experience with a professional recording producer. It's an interesting story he tells about how a Pro uses his expertise to make an artist sound his very best. Making My First Professionally Produced Music Album has to be useful to the many musicians among us.

 

For those of us who have a relationship with rural America, Herb Chong's new article has a ring of local familiarity. Small Town Values speaks to shared perceptions about the mini society in relationship to the larger national community. He talks about possibilities and probabilities as well as circumstance beyond individual control.

 

This month, Frank McGowan eagle eye is in full throttle. We all complain about the news but rarely the news makers. Not so our McGowan. His article, A Little Mental Spring Cleaning is satisfying to those of us with little patience with the pandering press.

 

This month, Karen Christle completes her Crystal Reports v.9 tutorial series. This last one deals with a built-in feature Using the Crystal Repository which enables one to create their own custom functions for calculated fields and store them in a library to be used over and over again for different reports.There is a list of links at the end of the to earlier articles.

 

 

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