blahI am having a pretty pathetic day. The weather sucks. It's been really dark all day. The city has been invaded by some serious low cloud. I'm a little sleep deprived. I've woken up each of the last three mornings from the three worst dreams I've ever had in my life. They were even all different and equally horrible. So horrible I can't even write about them. My webhost company's president lost his marbles and now my site is down. The apartment is dark and cold and I am alone. We have no coffee, and I am not yet a fan of going to the caffe bar alone. Then I read <a href="http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/editorial/the_nonexpert_mens_odor.shtml">this</a> and I laughed outloud to myself:<blockquote>You've fallen asleep on a beach. You are naked. You are wearing Cool Water by Davidoff. Everything is blue. Your date arrives, naked, riding bareback on a white stallion. Your date steps down from the steed. You embrace. Entwined, you enter the water. The cool, cool water. You wake up. You are covered in something that sure isn't cool water.</blockquote>I definately have a weird sense of humor. 28MinutiadanielFri.23.05.2003publishaha my hosting company did go out of bizbut they've <a href="http://featureprice.atlantic.net/">been bought</a>. here's hoping nothing goes heywire in the switchover and my prices don't increase. Update: <a href="http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/fea050903.cfm">Here's a reliable source</a> on what happened. I'm a little behind on the drama! Apparently the owner has lost his mind a little bit. I was getting wind of some troubles, but with the move and the funeral I didn't have time to worry about it. Besides my email being very slow to connect and apparently bouncing a lot of emails (not a bad thing in the spam-control deptartment anyway), I haven't had a problem except for about 3 days of downtime about a month ago. Also it does look like my prices will increase. Update II: Oh well now the sites are down. Isn't that special....of course if you can read this then the problem has been fixed one way or another... 27DesignDanielFri.23.05.2003publishtypepadooo this looks like a winner all around. <a href="http://www.typepad.com/2003/05/some_frequently_aske.shtml">typepad faq may 21 2003</a> 26ElsewheredanielFri.23.05.2003publishq...a<blockquote>What do you think influences your identity the most (i.e. your employment, family roles, economic status)? Definitely none of those. :) See <a href="index.php?file=2002_09_08_new_archive.xml&id=81375923">my business card</a>. :) <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=whuffie">Whuffie</a>. :) Seriously: It's some kind of integration between the quality my relationships (starting with my wife), my freedom to be a creatively unfolding individual, and some connection to both God and greater humanity.</blockquote> 25MinutiadanielThu.22.05.2003publishyours truly<blockquote>I'm intellectually intolerant of intolerance.</blockquote> 24QuotabledanielThu.22.05.2003publishmotivationI'm having a hard lunch hour right now. I'm sick and hungry at the same time and we have very little food in the house (my fault). At the same time I'm overwhelmed with all the things I have to do. But the problem with my situation (although most people would love to have this problem) is that everything must be done proactively. I have no person or thing demanding that it gets done besides my dreams. And they aren't easy things. They take work. This is easy. Blogging is easy. This is why I blog. This is why I shouldn't blog. :) 23MinutiadanielThu.22.05.2003publishconfirmation biasfrom <a href="http://www.disenchanted.com/dis/process?mv_todo=return&mv_nextpage=dictionary&node=1846">disenchanted dictionary</a><blockquote><blockquote>Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for nonsmart reasons. Michael Shermer, Sept. 2002 Scientific American</blockquote>When you believe something, you tend to prefer facts that confirm your belief, but ignore or rationalize anything that contradicts it. The smarter you are, the better you are at rationalizing whatever you want to believe. Is there a way for a smart person to escape this self-made trap? Maybe. As a passing statement made in his controversial book On Aggression, Konrad Lorenz suggested that a scientist should begin each day by throwing out one of his pet theories.<blockquote>It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.</blockquote>The point seems to be that if you get used to giving up things you hold close to your heart, you won't feel instantly compelled to resist something that'd pull the bad ones away.</blockquote> 22ElsewheredanielThu.22.05.2003publishbirthday present ii slash intelligent consumption 2.5 slash why IRAny kind of present(s) is cool, but I think it is cool to say "<a href="index.php?file=blog_2003_05_13.xml&id=18">This</a> was my {occasion} present" where This implies that it was the only thing. One thing of great value both in physical and meaningful terms. The fact that you can't get some things easily here (seeing the roads last week it now makes sense) can be a pain sometimes (but hey they have soymilk, let's not exaggerate), but the effort in going to 5 different small places to get 5 different things has tremendous meaning in terms of connecting to an important part of human existance. In streamlining and whitewashing our experience of consumption, modern retail business may have increased convenience and profits, but they have taken the life out of the thing we do most. Think about the gap between agrarian self-sustenance and Wal-Mart. Not saying we need to return to the former. Just saying the latter missed something in their modern ideals. Take that last bit and apply it to culture. yeah. Now you're seeing why <a href="integration/">IR</a>. Remember that feeling of finding some record in some store somewhere and listening to it over and over, consuming it in the truest, most meaningful sense of the word? You can remember, right?, because the finding, the physical process of consumption, was meaningful.21CommentdanielWed.21.05.2003publishgetting what you want slash slimmer slash futureJust thought it worth mentioning, it's been a feature for a while now, but if all you like on this site is Minutia, then you can <a href="index.php?cat=Minutia">just bring that up by default</a>, or if all you want are pointers to things I find interesting, <a href="index.php?cat=Elsewhere">Elsewhere</a> (assuming I keep those categories around). Either way, the complete, "current" stuff would still be in the menu to the right. Who needs to know what time I post this crap anyway? And how often is it not me posting? Useless metadata 'round these parts, anyway, and no longer presented. Exists, but not presented atm. Gonna change the date format again, too, next time I reset the "current" archive next week. Gonna implement the new SWIM in small pieces here on djdc. You probly won't notice too much. Gonna go to the Croatian coast this weekend with friends. Busy busy. I may or may not take my computer with me and write code. Meeting with Java developers today. One last thing...I can't figure out if my hosting company is going out of business or not. It's a long, strange story, but if the site goes down I'll do something about it. Just a heads up. 20DesignDanielWed.21.05.2003publishbirthday present<img src="images/m_jacket1.jpg" align="right" />Here's M with her new red leather jacket we got for her yesterday for her birthday. Very cool indeed. Made in BiH. And it was cool enough outside to wear it today. :) 18MinutiadanielWed.21.05.2003publishdeconstructing suburbia<a href="http://monkhouse.blogspot.com">hopkins</a> blogged this a while back; it took me a while to get to read it. but it is really cool. funny that <a href="index.php?file=blog_2003_01_17.xml&id=205">i was thinking the same things around about the time when it came out</a> (see "02"), without doing anything but experiencing suburbia myself.<blockquote>In The Geography of Nowhere, James Kunstler observes that the building of suburbia as a replacement for towns and cities was a self-destructive act, "The living arrangement Americans now think of as normal is bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically, and spiritually. The physical setting itself--the cartoon landscape of car-clogged highways, strip malls, tract houses, franchise fry pits, parking lots, junked cities, and ravaged countryside--is not merely a symptom of our troubled culture but in many ways a primary cause of our troubles." <blockquote>...We've had only one way of evaluating the cost of cars to society and that is to quantify air pollution...Unfortunately, there are many repercussions that are extremely difficult to quantify. How do you quantify the social damage to a child who has to be chauffeured around for her entire childhood, who never learns to navigate her everyday world by herself? A 14-year-old girl who has never had to get home from the library by herself. The damage to millions of children over the last 40 years, in essence to their personal sovereignty... Alex Gavin...gave me a bad review in the New York Times..."Mr. Kunstler thinks we have a problem with cars in America. A lot of Americans would disagree with that." That's like saying: "Mr. Kunstler thinks we have a problem with heroin in America. A lot of heroin addicts would disagree with that."</blockquote></blockquote> 17ElsewheredanielWed.21.05.2003publishin still other newsI was just online for an hour and a half and I got through about 1/4 of my "to read" queue; and much of that I did not read, just decided not to. Too much information. Too many people trying too many things too close to what I want but not quite. SO I updated the <a href="./swim">swim area completely</a>. Still not sharing too much. 16MinutiadanielWed.21.05.2003publishin other newsIt's hailing right now in Sarajevo. 15MinutiadanielWed.21.05.2003publish<a href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/">css zen garden: the beauty in css design</a> 14ElsewheredanielWed.21.05.2003publishthe good wife<a href="http://www.theyblinked.com/blog/images/fromkim.jpg">or in my case, maybe it should be the good husband</a> 13ElsewheredanielWed.21.05.2003publishHappy Birthday to my Favorite Person in the WorldToday is <a href="miriam/">Miriam</a>'s birthday!! <a href="mailto:mlm@danielsjourney.com">Wish her a happy birthday</a>! 12MinutiadanielTue.20.05.2003publishrandom thoughts same as everI want to write something useful/purposeful, but all the work I have to do for books or projects involves editing and deep thinking, and it's still morning. I had the stupid/profound thought today that life here is really going to be very similar to how it was in DC or even FL. I will spend much of my time at my computer/desk. I will read and learn more through new media than I care to, exist within this environment known loosely as the Web, really just an expanded community/space. I will run errands, clean, hopefully cook better, muse, hopefully go play music. I will hopefully do all those things I wrote about the other day. Not much different except I live in a beautiful apartment in a beautiful city in a beautiful part of the world...and I have to use more hand signals communicating on those errands. 11MinutiadanielMon.19.05.2003publish<blockquote>America is unarticulably weird|cool.</blockquote><a href="http://interconnected.org/home/2003_04_13_archive.shtml#200167433">interconnected.org</a> (another essential blog) 11QuotabledanielMon.19.05.2003publishfastcompany believe it or not<blockquote>Most companies have lost their zeal for tech-driven transformation. But fast companies keep the faith. They believe that the Internet remains the most powerful laboratory for business experimentation ever. It transforms how people work together, how companies interact with customers, and the economics of entire industries. There is nothing more disruptive today than an original strategic insight fueled by a savvy application of computers and communication.</blockquote>via <a href="http://www.jordoncooper.sk.ca/2003_05_01_archives.html#200305805">coop</a>. thanks for quoting large chunks! 11QuotabledanielMon.19.05.2003publishcollins brilliant as always<a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~smallritual/">smallritual</a>. some pieces:<blockquote>I've been having flashbacks - waking dreams in effect - of the early 1970s. What distinguishes these flashbacks is their total immersion in the atmosphere of the times....normally one sees these things from outside, as it were, in relation to other things that preceded and came after. Whereas when one is living in a period, there is no way out, no detached place or escape from the all-pervading feel of the times, no knowledge of the future. Each time imagines its own future, always wrong, which fills its horizons with dread or anticipation. ...the unique underlying near-despair of this period - unlike any other time I've lived through - was caused by the fact that we had had the 60s and affluence, and it was falling around our ears, and no-one knew if it would come again. Maybe that was all we'd ever have - 15 years of prosperity and pop culture, all gone for good. You missed it. Now the oil is running out and Western society is crumbling. We won't all be going to the moon after all. ...now we look back and say it was only a phase - a bad phase, but we've had two economic cycles since then and Western society and culture are still booming. But in my half-dreams I find myself back in the period as it was then, without that hindsight. Back in that futuristic No Future. I wish there was a way to capture that atmosphere for you. Watch A Clockwork Orange. Surround yourself with Brutalist concrete and dark brown brick. Shut out the light with smoked glass and mirrors. Make everything slightly shabby, a little less than new. Tell yourself that Bush has only just begun, and that the markets will not rise again in your lifetime. Listen to Pink Floyd....</blockquote> 11QuotabledanielMon.19.05.2003publishNotes on a Weekend Trip to Slovakia for Grandfather's FuneralYogurt. That's all I'm going to say. <hr width="30" align="center" /> Miriam's day, trip up: Bosnia--Bosnian, Croatia--Croatian, Slovenia--Croatian/English, Austria--German/English/Slovak. <hr width="30" align="center" /> A futuristic map of Bosnia. "I can see the highway--there it is! Oh, looks like it's not quite done yet." <hr width="30" align="center" /> "I judge a country's progress by the quality of their road surface." <hr width="30" align="center" /> Almost getting hit by oncoming passing traffic. <hr width="30" align="center" /> For the benefit of Americans: the new Craig David song, w/Sting, Rise and Fall. <hr width="30" align="center" /> Miriam's mom, on the way from Vienna airport to Slovakia: "You're, like, home here." <hr width="30" align="center" /> M pulled over in RS. D pulled over in Slovenia. ...Thank you dip passports. Can't wait for dip plates. <hr width="30" align="center" /> <img src="images/sarajevo/may_2003/vino1.jpg" /> Friday night at grandmother's--like a wake: stories, tears, laughter, Otec's wine... ...Otec's legacy all around one table. ...Grandmother picking, then pealing, onions and carrots that night for Saturday lunch...life goes on... <img src="images/sarajevo/may_2003/mama_working1.jpg" /> <hr width="30" align="center" /> The tape of Otec singing played at Saturday dinner. 10MinutiadanielMon.19.05.2003publishNotes on a Road Trip from Sarajevo to ViennaI'm writing this by twilight, 150kph down the Austrian autobahn. There isn't a single highway in Bosnia. They're working on it, for a few k between Sarajevo and Zenica (we praised God for it on the way back, it is open only for those traveling south atm -ed.). The entire 3.5 hour journey from Sarajevo to the Croatian border was 2 lane road. Miriam drove and had to endure traffic--slow Kamiony (trucks) going slow up curvy up-and-down roads. But that wasn't even the craziest part. In the north there are thousands of destroyed, burned-out homes by the road. They appeared sporadically, but once we entered RS (Republika Serbska part of BiH) they became more frequent until we were driving through an entire village that had been destroyed. <img src="images/sarajevo/may_2003/burned_house1.jpg" /> The heartbreak of not knowing what happened to the people that used to live in those homes. What were those last moments like, before they were taken or had to flee? Did they watch as their things were taken and home burned? Was there one of mother's quilts still on the wall as the flame engulfed it? One of son's paintings? No, they were probably running, or pleading for their lives. Or maybe already deep into Croatia, Slovenia, or Austria. Or maybe already dead. Already floating, connected to the Spirit above, watching the scene unfold with a perfect understanding, a complete connection to the collective conscience, which brought them a sad knowledge of the eternal error of their aggressors' ways. 9MinutiadanielThu.15.05.2003publish<img src="images/065_bernolakovo_vineinstruction.jpg" border="2" /><div align="center"> Toma&scaron; Jacko 1925 - 2003 husband, father, pastor, farmer, prophet, comic, maker of fine wines...</div> 8MinutiadanielThu.15.05.2003publishSo I know I once said I wouldn't post this week, but I did, just kept it to myself for a while, and if you happen upon this then great. Something to read over the weekend while I'm very much away from the computer. Peace, godspeed, and love and may we always meet again, in person, cyberspace, or heaven, whichever comes first. 7MinutiadanielThu.15.05.2003publishholden on music<blockquote>...I took a minute to consciously look around, at the band and the crowd, and thought to myself, "I have a band, they just kicked in behind me on a song I once wrote in my bedroom, and I'm playing live in New York City."</blockquote>--<a href="http://mikeholdenmusic.com/">Mike Holden</a> 6QuotabledanielWed.14.05.2003publishSarajevo bloggerI'm sure there are more than two of us, but here is one other blogger here in Sarajevo: <a href="http://www.ellensjourney.org/stranger/">http://www.ellensjourney.org/stranger/</a> 4ElsewheredanielWed.14.05.2003publishon so-called social software, from amateur hourCorante's <a href="http://www.corante.com/amateur/index.shtml">Amateur Hour</a> blog is one of the most important I read, and it has full-post RSS. The following from <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/001451.html">an article on social software</a>:<blockquote>Tools to help automate knowledge working are almost non-existent. The lack of standard processes for knowledge working has meant that tools for automation are almost completely a matter of individual choice and remain strikingly primitive. The growth of ad-hoc knowledge management tools has both a symbiotic and catalytic relationship with social software. Attempting to create a consistent vocabulary and taxonomy across an entire enterprise is misguided. It should be obvious that everyone is unique in the mental models that they create to structure their knowledge. What's more the knowledge that workers create must be portable, for no matter how much companies would like to lock employees' ideas away as intellectual property, the cross-pollination that occurs when people move from company to company is critical to innovation. We should be building tools to encourage innovation and collaboration, not to constrain it or control it. This seems a domain where open data exchange standards, P2P technologies and powerful desktop computing are the right models. The integration of personal and published web content, content and concept sharing, RSS aggregation and publishing, blogging, email filtering/storage/extraction and powerful collaborative searching is bringing a real revolution in knowledge working productivity into view...</blockquote> 5DesignDanielWed.14.05.2003publishon art and my favorite subject: meMost of our CD's are currently on the docks somewhere in the US, or if we're lucky on the high seas somewhere, but we brought a few with us, and there were a few we had put in storage last June (and got back already). Many of these are independent records from friends in Florida. I've been listening to those particular CD's this morning, and thinking to myself, There are so many great artists out there! I wonder what became of some of the friends I lost touch with, whose records I still enjoy. I wonder how their creative unfolding continues now. I wonder if they still record, write, have friends who do the same. I realized so little of my artistic diet is what the machinery feeds us. I seek desperately or stumble serendipitously upon most of the art I consume. I am turned off immediately if work is marketed too heavily or too popular within the general population. It isn't a snobbish, clique thing with me; I am simply drawn to the most simple artists. I still listen to U2 and read Chuck Palahniuk, but compared to most, I consume a lot of independent art. And the other thing is that I love those artists. My heart leaps out at the people struggling, balancing what the ignorant would call "real life" with their creative unfolding, with their artistic calling. I want to help all of us, especially those of us in that position, to actualize our creative selves. And in that light I see technology and the Web as a tremendous new opportunity, leverage which which to accomplish that. That is part of my calling. That is why Integration Research. That is why SWIM. As for those busy with their "real" lives, I want to help them see the light, as it were. I am an evangelist for the arts. And the TV is the devil. Anyway, the other thing that spurred this post is that I am supposed to write a letter to the ambassador about the fact that I will be operating a home business from out of our (supplied) housing (this was not allowed up until only a few years ago) (although apparently most people don't bother with the letter). So here is my letter. Since I wrote it, I think I can do with it what else I want besides send it to him. So I'm going to post it as a goalish kinda landmark:<blockquote>I am writing to inform you of my intention to operate a modest business from our home. My enterprises are varied and numerous: I have two clients I serve in a web development and design capacity, however I have no plans to take on more clients in this area. I am currently forming a non-profit organization, Integration Research, an art and technology incubator. I intend to contract local software developers to help with Integration Research's first project, a desktop application to help creatives organize and publish their work. Integration Research is also planning to facilitate a number of collective web-based art installations. Occasionally, I am contracted to do some writing, and I plan to finish and "shop" my first novel before the end of our tour here in Sarajevo. I also do photography, both for private collections and public installations. I will continue to publish and sell my work through my website. Finally, I am a musician and songwriter, and I plan on recording and publishing two collections of recordings while in Sarajevo. One will be a self-published collection of my personal work, which I will sell at performances and on my website, as well as shop to record labels both in Europe and the States. The other will be songs I intend to shop to publishers. These are all the projects I plan to execute, partially from the "home office." If you require it, I will keep you abreast of any additional endeavors I take on.</blockquote> 4CommentdanielWed.14.05.2003publishreimagine has a site<a href="http://www.reimagine.org/sites/home/">reimagine</a> ...I know one of the guys w/this org...interviewed him for the book. 3ElsewheredanielTue.13.05.2003publishchuck prophet euro tour<blockquote>It's now official! The Chuck Prophet 'Who Stole My Duct Tape?' Euro-tour Summer 2003 is a GO! See below for the dates. Meanwhile Chuck and co. are out criss-crossing the US. Check in with <a href="www.chuckprophet.com">www.chuckprophet.com</a> as tour dates are being updated all the time.</blockquote>06-04 Leiden - Q-Bus NL 06-05 Ingolstadt - Neue Welt. D 06-06 Koln - Underground D 06-07 Bramsche - Alte Weberei D 06-08 Beverungen - Orange Blossom D 06-09 Dresden - Starclub D 06-10 Berlin - Knaack Club D 06-11 Hamburg - Schlachthof D 06-12 Prague - Palac Akropolis CZ 06-13 Gelsenkirchen - Kaue D 06-14 Neustadt - Musikwerkstatt D 06-15 Greiz - Burghof Festival D 06-16 Frankfurt - am Main Sinkkasten D 06-17 Nurnberg - K4 D 06-18 London - Borderline GB 06-19 Manchester Manchester Academy GB 06-20 York - Fibbers GB 06-21 Glasgow - King Tut's GB 06-22 Nottingham - The Rescue Rooms GB 06-23 Leeds - The New Roscoe GB 06-24 Leicester - The Musician GB 06-25 Newcastle - Live Theatre GB 06-26 Bristol - The Bonaventure Ballroom GB 06-27 Glastonbury - Glastonbury Festival (Moby, REM, Yes, Radiohead and more) 06-28 Buckingham - The Granery GB 06-29 London - Borderline GB 2ElsewheredanielTue.13.05.2003publishLife without broadband/life with trans-atlantic, pay-by-the-minute Bosnian dialupBasically, if you do not have a full text RSS feed, it has become difficult enough to read your site that you have to be in my top 3-5 for me to read you every-other day and in the top 5-10 for me to read you every week. These statistics may change, but basically I'm online long enough to do email and let my newsreader (<a href="http://www.methodize.org/nntprss">nntp//rss</a>) download all my feeds. If your posts are not entirely in my newsreader I can't read them, because I then disconnect and start reading. Following links has become much more selective, since I have to queue those links and bring them up during another online session. You will notice I've discontinued my daily links feature. Those of you who subscribed (if any) to that RSS feed can stop now. I don't think it's coming back anytime soon. You will see who already meets the full RSS criteria when I update the Links section. Those who do not fall into three categories: + MoveableType people (or at least their RSS feed has the same abridged format as MT's default) who could do full posts in their RSS and I wish they did: <a href="http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/">dan gillmor</a>, <a href="http://www.arianafrench.com">ariana french</a>, <a href="http://www.boboroshi.com/log/">boboroshi</a>, <a href="http://felbers.net/mt/">felbers</a>, <a href="http://fray.com/storyblog/">fray</a>, <a href="http://www.thehorsehospital.com">horse hospital</a>, <a href="http://dannyayers.com">ideagraph</a>, <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/">joho</a>, <a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/">jon udell</a>, <a href="http://www.thismodernworld.com">this modern world</a>, <a href="http://www.warblogging.com">warblogging</a>. + Blogger people who have never had RSS, most of them friends, most of them by now hopefully waiting eagerly for the imminent first public edition of SWIM so that they can have full RSS from Blogger (if they're not on blogspot) (or waiting eagerly for <a href="http://new.blogger.com">Dano</a> which may or may not include RSS): <a href="http://www.jordoncooper.sk.ca/">cooper</a>, <a href="http://theyblinked.com">theyblinked</a>, gravatt, <a href="http://mattybubar.blogspot.com">all</a> <a href="http://benbubar.blogspot.com">bubars</a>, <a href="http://monkhouse.blogspot.com">hopkins</a>, <a href="http://consumptive.org/weblog/blog.html">consumptive</a>, <a href="http://jonnybaker.blogspot.com">jonny baker</a>. + Handspun or 3rd party people (* is with some RSS that I know of): <a href="http://indigohosting.blogspot.com/">Greenbelt</a>*, <a href="http://www.johnheronproject.btinternet.co.uk/">john heron project</a>, <a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~smallritual/">small ritual</a>, <a href="http://ftrain.com/">ftrain</a>*, <a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/index.html">talking points memo</a>, <a href="http://www.hunkabutta.com/">hunkabutta</a>, <a href="http://www.powazek.com/">powazek</a>. There are a couple more categories, for example web magazines, who in general do not do full RSS for a couple reasons (ad revenue and length of pieces), but one notable, glorious exception is <a href="http://www.themorningnews.org">the morning news</a>. Pure photo blogs are also "exempt", as the images do not load until I bring up the entry in the newsreader anyway. There are also a slew of other blogs I read on occasion, more just to keep up with the person. You probably know who you are, you probly don't know what RSS even is, and all I can say is if you do publish full RSS please let me know. Any mp3, video, or streaming media is right out. And please also compress your pictures as much as possible. <hr width="30" align="center" /> My email servers are flaky. If you get email bounced back to you, it's probly ok. I probly got it. <hr width="30" align="center" /> I noticed <a href="http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/001951.html">d2r got bandwidth-restricted broadband</a> in Ireland(?)...at 4GB/month, a little more reasonable than here in Bosnia (although no mention of what he's paying). 1DesignDanielTue.13.05.2003publish