actually, I did mention it to Razzak during the break, and he, with an incredulous but impish grin, asked me why I didn't bring him a Starbuck's... but then he offered me credit for my 32 bit purchase against the 64, since I really hadn't used it at all up until last night's epiphany.
I was a little more reserved during the conference than my usual, due to feeling a little outgunned by the experience level of the rest of the group. But I'll be back.... I was going to tell the following joke, which I think is way better than the corn that was flying around the room today, but never got the courage up... 2 cannibal chefs were stirring a big pot that contained a clown. one samples the brew with the wooden spoon and asked the other, "Does this taste funny to you?" On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:26 PM, jan johansen <[email protected]>wrote: > Bill, > > Congratulations on taking that important step. > You didn't mention your success today at all during the conference. > > As always, this group stands ready to assist with your questions. > > Jan Johansen > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: William Stacy <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) > Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:05:25 -0700 > Subject: [RBASE-L] - 10.10.10 > > I came to PA last Wed thinking that I would probably not suffer the pains > of migration from 4.5++ to any windows version of anything. But I gave it > one last chance, figuring that there just might be something to all the > hype, and certainly not looking forward to years of skating around the new > versions of Windows in every new computer I buy. > > Well, I must say that I was EXTREMEly impressed. So last night I converted > my 4.5 database to 9.0 extreme in my hotel room (which was very nice and > clean at the Doubletree and my wife will be glad to hear that I'm not > bringing any bedbugs home in my luggage). The conversion was quick and easy > even for this old DOS guy, since I've decided to take my time building all > the forms and reports I'll need from scratch. The features are just too > cool to saddle them with my old structures, formats, etc. I'll just load > all the current data from my "production" database when I'm done. > > Anyway, my decision was partly because of all the input from the friendly > AND intelligent (a rare combo) guys and gals I've read about over the years > on this list-server but now have seen and heard "real time". I look forward > to a lot of dialoguing in this mode and in person in the future, as I'm sure > I'll need lots of help along the way. > > > Thanks to all. > > Bill Stacy > > > > -- > William Stacy, O.D. > > Please visit my website by clicking on : > > http://www.folsomeye.net > > -- William Stacy, O.D. Please visit my website by clicking on : http://www.folsomeye.net
