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Bravenet.com is still down, but they are making progress. A new photo has been added to the "Memorandum" page.</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>Now you can be entered into a contest to win $10,000 when you recommend  </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#00FFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="2b14c100.jpg" border=0 width="76" height="16" ALT="Charlie's Web http://go.to/charlies_web" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B></FONT><B> to a friend.</B></div> <div> <B><U>Mar.  4, 2002</U></B><B>     </B><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Bravenet.com is securing it's servers after an unauthorized entry into their system, and as such, all Bravenet services {Charlie's Web Counter, Greeting Card Service, etc.} are temporarily not available. We and they apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.</B></FONT></div> <div> <B><U>Feb. 23, 2002</U></B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial" ><B>     </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00FFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Hello to Cassie's class.</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>     I'm rushing this new  version because my daughter's college class will be reviewing my site ( blame the spell checker for any misspellings ). I hadn't realized how funky some of the pages were at lower resolutions until I brought <IMG SRC="2b14c100.jpg" border=0 width="76" height="16" ALT="Charlie's Web http://go.to/charlies_web" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> up on a friend's computer. So, my apologies to those of you I previously ignored.</B></div> <div> <B>     Folksites appears to be up and running as of this date, although any links to it from Cosmiverse.com have been removed from Cosmiverse's Home Page. I never received a reply from plug'ngo.com as to my inquiry about the broken links, and as such I have removed  all  their banners. I am also attempting to iron out the kinks revolving around the new </B><B><U>Bravenet Greeting Card</U></B><B> </B><B>Service that's preventing  </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#00FFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="2b14c100.jpg" border=0 width="76" height="16" ALT="Charlie's Web http://go.to/charlies_web" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT><B>  photos from displaying as options.</B></div> <div> <B><U>Feb. 23, 2002</U></B>     <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B><U>Note:</U></B><B> Folksites appears to be up and running as of this date.</B></FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B><U>Feb. 13, 2002</U></B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial" >   </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >There is a problem with certain links which we are aware of.  We are contacting the appropriate people and working to fix these problems. If a link does not work, you can try at some other time, when the problem should be worked out. This applies, most notably, to any and all links to Folksites@ cosmiverse.com and to my page, </FONT><U>AcmeCo</U>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >which is posted there.  Several banner ads are not properly linked. These will either be corrected or replaced, depending on what the problem is. We apologize for any inconvenience.</FONT></div> <div> <B><U>Jan. 27, 2002 </U></B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial" >    </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Arial" ><B>Well, I tried the embedded program  to  have  the  fonts  of  my  choosing  display  on  your screen,  but  it  wouldn't  work.  So  much  for  that !    I  had  an  original  song  for  the  download  page,  but  it  wouldn't  upload; and  I  had  a  special  photo  for  the  Memorandum  page,  but it  was  too  big !  So,  I  made  the  photo  small  enough  and  reduced  the  quality  so  I  could  post  it,  and  created  .Jpg  files  from  some  of  the  fonts.  I'm still working on the getting the original song to upload.</B></FONT></div> <div> <B><U>Jan. 16, 2002</U></B>     <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>(Happy Birthday Marina!!! - Jan. 05)</B></FONT></div> <div>      <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#33FFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Thanks to Jerry for the heads-up on the typos, all of which appeared on this page with the exception of one BIG GLARING ONE on the title page, no less ! Now we are truly VASTLY (instead of "vartly") improved.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#CC9900" FACE="Lucida Blackletter" ><B><U><IMG SRC="14342630.gif" border=0 width="66" height="99" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></B></FONT>     <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Lucida Blackletter" > </FONT>I've tried to cover every contingency concerning my computers, and my files, but you know what they say about the best-laid plans ...</div> <div>      Although not very stable to begin with, my main computer, a custom-built job, started to get even weirder than usual. Finally, it died, and the motherboard was the culprit. I had to sink money into a computer for fixing, that I thought would be used for upgrading, seeing how I had upgrades in mind when it was built. An upgrade was performed, as I stepped up to a higher speed processor.</div> <div>      I had an external Zip drive that I figured could be used to transfer and save my files from the main computer, my laptop [thank God for this laptop], and my harem of 486's. It was a good plan until the portable Zip drive tipped over 45<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="System" >° </FONT>against the side of the cabinet, where it sits, and ceased to function.</div> <div>      Well I still had the laptop, but it crashed while I was online, [ not at all, an unusual circumstance ] and thereafter would not make a connection. Three different antivirus programs found nothing; neither did Norton's SystemWorks !</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="14450500.gif" border=0 width="80" height="80" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">      Take note: One of the best tools on Windows 98<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >™ </FONT>, [actually two - Microsoft, take notice]  are SFC.exe otherwise known as "System File Checker", and "Internet Explorer Repair". I can't seem to find them on Windows Me <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >™</FONT> for some reason. I know it has System Restore, but that should be saved as a drastic measure. It turns out that the problem with the laptop was that certain core Internet Explorer files were wiped out during that one crash and I also lost two or three Windows/System files !  Using System Restore in this case would have amounted to having major surgery to fix a simple cut on a finger.</div> <div>      At least I've stayed away from nasty viruses. </div> <div>      Unfortunately, that was not the case for Folksites over at Cosmiverse.com ! I did try to update "AcmeCo" back in April and found the site was inaccessible due to a virus ! When they finally got it up and running, at first, none of the graphics would display. A visit to the Photo Manager explained why. There were no photos to manage. They must have a real good back-up system, because eventually, everything was back in it's place.</div> <div>      And, I'm feeling much better now. Thank You.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="154a9100.gif" border=0 width="425" height="16" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B><U> <A NAME="my_two_cents_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B><B><U>My Two Cents !</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     So, if I were to go out on a limb and again  predict another Subway Series would you still laugh at me?</B></div> <div> <B>     Note to Steve Phillips, GM of The NY Mets: Yes, sign Juan Gonzalez.</B></div> <div> <B>     Note to Fred Wilpon, co-owner of The NY Mets: See, above !</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     Note from Emily Latilla from SNL: "Never mind".</B></div> <bR> <div>      Whatever happened to that basketball player the Knicks acquired a couple of years ago? You know, that guy that would disrupt the team and ruin Knicks basketball as we know it ? </div> <div>      As a matter of fact, whatever happened to Knicks basketball?</div> <bR> <div>      I found it a great comfort, when the leaders of our country modified their views of what "getting back to normal" was,  following the <U>Acts Of War</U> perpetrated against us on 9-11-01.</div> <div>      Five minutes after the sound of the explosion reached me, while I was lighting up my morning cigarette on the back porch,  I knew,  life as we know it was forever changed ...</div> <div>      ... Much the same way it was, the day JFK was assassinated,  or the day Neil Armstrong said, "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind".</div> <div>      If you're old enough, then you probably remember where you were and what you were doing.</div> <div>      With any luck reading this page will have much  the same effect.<IMG SRC="0e33b280.gif" border=0 width="59" height="40" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div>      Happy New Year Everyone.</div> <div>      I sincerely hope this year is better than the last one... or the one before that for that matter.</div> <div>      My apologies for not staying updated. Details can be found on the  <U>Notes</U> page.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>