On a recent vacation day, I started looking for some old computer software I had stored away, and the day turned into a house cleaning day. Threw out a bunch of home mixed cassette tapes, old VHS tapes of recorded shows. Even went through a box of floppy disks, found some pictures from an old digital camera that copied the pictures directly to floppy.
Magnetic tape is a made of a thin magnetizable coating on plastic. It was the basis for many forms of audio, video and computer data storage. One of the biggest downsides to tape, other than finding a device that can read it, is over the years magnetic tape can suffer from deterioration much quicker than the modern tools that replace it. Tape is being replaced by a variety of tools that have much greater capacity and efficiency.
I started thinking about all that tape we don't use any more, the music tapes, videos, and floppy disks. I copied the photos from the floppies to a hard drive, and will back them up as well to other media. As far as the cassette tapes and the videos, the one of a kind personal stuff I saved, perhaps someday finding the time to transfer them to some other media, but the ones of popular albums and movies, hardly seem worth the effort to convert to digital. I can buy the DVD's of the old TV shows, download those old tapes from Napster. I guess this is all progress?
Also makes me ponder, as I do the majority of my compositions in the computer version of notepad first, and then transfer them to an application, how I no longer use the physical version of a notepad. As someone who loves to study the history and origins of technology, and society, I think about all the historic documents, the scraps of paper that have such historic significance. Letters from presidents to their wives sent from war zones, letters between political allies and adversaries, are now a thing of days gone by. Kind of sad, we won't have these scraps of paper anymore to look at in our museums.
There is so much history, not only in the words, but in the handwriting as well. Somehow the transcripts of a text message just doesn't feel the same.
Saturday, July 24. 2010
Remember CB Radio?
Long before Twitter and Facebook, we had the CB!
There are many areas where telecommunications, and computers have parallels in their development. For instance, one of the first forms of using technology for social networking was with a phenomenon throughout the 1970s and early 1980s known as CB radio.
CB radio, formally known as Citizens' Band radio, is a system of short distance radio communications between individuals. The Citizens' Band radio service began in 1945 in the United States as one of several personal radio services regulated by the Federal Communications Commission.
While some folks may say the CB radio became less popular due to development of mobile phones, the CB radio was not used for personal one to one communications, as much as it was used as the information sharing and social networking tool at the time.
Truck drivers and motorists used CB radio to locate gas stations during the fuel shortages and rationing of the early 1970's, and to share information on police speed trap. Movies, television, and songs established CB radio as a cultural phenomenon during the 1970's.
Similar to chat rooms that came later, the CB allowed people to have conversations in a more or less anonymous manner. Originally, CB required a license and the use of a call sign, but most people ignored this requirement and used made up nicknames known as handles. In fact CompuServe CB Simulator was the first online chat service in the 1980's and it based on CB radio so people would understand the concept.
The invention of the hashtag in Twitter allows people to follow conversations on common topics, and in a more or less anonymous manner jump in and comment on these conversations using made up nicknames. Sounds familiar.
A reoccurring theme in my Smart Technology web site is integrating many old school ideas with modern technology. Last weekend, after resisting the Twitter phenomenon for as long as I have, I cautiously jumped on the Twitter bandwagon.
For weeks now, as I make my morning commute to work, I have been thinking, Twitter is the new CB radio. Tonight I did an internet search on CB radio and Twitter. Seems that I am not the only person who remembers CB radio, and see the comparisons to Twitter.
There were numerous reasons why CB radio became less popular. Of course, with any technology, there is always something new and better that comes along. But during the peak of the fad, as I was there in the midst of it, the noise factor was not always due to the technology, but so many people acting like idiots drowning out the conversations of folks just trying to engage in social networking. Will history repeat itself?
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana
There are many areas where telecommunications, and computers have parallels in their development. For instance, one of the first forms of using technology for social networking was with a phenomenon throughout the 1970s and early 1980s known as CB radio.
CB radio, formally known as Citizens' Band radio, is a system of short distance radio communications between individuals. The Citizens' Band radio service began in 1945 in the United States as one of several personal radio services regulated by the Federal Communications Commission.
While some folks may say the CB radio became less popular due to development of mobile phones, the CB radio was not used for personal one to one communications, as much as it was used as the information sharing and social networking tool at the time.
Truck drivers and motorists used CB radio to locate gas stations during the fuel shortages and rationing of the early 1970's, and to share information on police speed trap. Movies, television, and songs established CB radio as a cultural phenomenon during the 1970's.
Similar to chat rooms that came later, the CB allowed people to have conversations in a more or less anonymous manner. Originally, CB required a license and the use of a call sign, but most people ignored this requirement and used made up nicknames known as handles. In fact CompuServe CB Simulator was the first online chat service in the 1980's and it based on CB radio so people would understand the concept.
The invention of the hashtag in Twitter allows people to follow conversations on common topics, and in a more or less anonymous manner jump in and comment on these conversations using made up nicknames. Sounds familiar.
A reoccurring theme in my Smart Technology web site is integrating many old school ideas with modern technology. Last weekend, after resisting the Twitter phenomenon for as long as I have, I cautiously jumped on the Twitter bandwagon.
For weeks now, as I make my morning commute to work, I have been thinking, Twitter is the new CB radio. Tonight I did an internet search on CB radio and Twitter. Seems that I am not the only person who remembers CB radio, and see the comparisons to Twitter.
There were numerous reasons why CB radio became less popular. Of course, with any technology, there is always something new and better that comes along. But during the peak of the fad, as I was there in the midst of it, the noise factor was not always due to the technology, but so many people acting like idiots drowning out the conversations of folks just trying to engage in social networking. Will history repeat itself?
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana
Thursday, July 15. 2010
Why Not WordPress?
So the question was asked of me, why is this blog not using WordPress blog script. From a web development point of view that is a logical question. I have standardized for now on using Drupal as the software of choice for my websites being built as content management systems. This topic will be discussed in more detail at the SmartTechnology web site.
If Drupal is chosen because it is the upcoming leader of content management systems, and has a well developed community, did I apply that same methodology to using Serendipity, the script being used here, as my blog software. The answer to that, is yes. WordPress is well known, and well built, and has a good community, so why Serendipity? As far as functionality WordPress is just a bit more than a blog, but not quite a full blown content management system. Serendipity stacks up well as a basic bogging tool, and is one of the quickest to set up, and easiest to get up and running scripts I have ever used. Literally within minutes I can set up a blog using Serendipity. While the theme selection may not be quite as vast as WordPress, if the goal is simply a blog, there are plenty of nice themes to find, and with little tweaking of the style sheets, as I have here, you can match the blog to the color scheme of your others sites, or to match you liking.
I do give some thought from time to time about converting this blog to WordPress, just so from a development point of view I can say I work in WordPress, but for now that is not enough reason to change. And quite frankly, this blog is a good example of something else other than WordPress, and for a average webmaster just looking to install something to have a blog, and learn a little bit about PHP and Style Sheets, I find it a very nice script for that.
Hope this helps to clarify that question. If you want more information on Serendipity, check out the link to sy9 at the bottom of this page.
Happy Computing!
Monday, May 10. 2010
Microsoft HTML 5 plans
I am currently going through my old notes, preparing to re-vamp and re-roll out the Computerguru.net web site.
I ran across this article, it caught my attention, as a topic that will be addressed on a regular basis when the Computerguru.net website gets back up and running in a few weeks.
Microsoft under fire on HTML 5 plans ...
IDG News Service - Microsoft came under fire from some of its rivals on Wednesday for its decision not to offer Internet Explorer 9 -- and hence support for the upcoming HTML 5 standard -- to users of its older Windows XP operating system.
Article goes on to say ...
And IE 6 still has more users than the Opera, Chrome and Safari browsers combined, according to Crockford. In some countries it accounts for as much as 40% of browser usage, he said.
Quite an interest statement, IE 6 is very much alive and well! A lot has changed, however there is one thing that has not changed as a web developer, you can not control the browser being used by the folks viewing your web site. You can suggest, but you can not force everyone to update. That is indeed a challenge.
Click on this link to read the article
I ran across this article, it caught my attention, as a topic that will be addressed on a regular basis when the Computerguru.net website gets back up and running in a few weeks.
Microsoft under fire on HTML 5 plans ...
IDG News Service - Microsoft came under fire from some of its rivals on Wednesday for its decision not to offer Internet Explorer 9 -- and hence support for the upcoming HTML 5 standard -- to users of its older Windows XP operating system.
Article goes on to say ...
And IE 6 still has more users than the Opera, Chrome and Safari browsers combined, according to Crockford. In some countries it accounts for as much as 40% of browser usage, he said.
Quite an interest statement, IE 6 is very much alive and well! A lot has changed, however there is one thing that has not changed as a web developer, you can not control the browser being used by the folks viewing your web site. You can suggest, but you can not force everyone to update. That is indeed a challenge.
Click on this link to read the article
Saturday, April 24. 2010
The power of Style Sheets
As I tool up the World of Guru42, it looks like there will be a Drupal site at Computerguru.net very soon. I have been kicking around various tools and themes in prototype websites. If this is you first visit to this blog you have not seen the subtle tweaking that has gone on in recent weeks. Even if you are an infrequent visitor, you probably have not notices the minor changes in look and color scheme.
This blog uses a script know as Serendipity. I choose it because I used it in my teaching days, as I found it one of the quickest scripts to get up and running for a blog or content management system. I had this blog up and running in an evening. To speed up the process I used a template that was fairly close to the color scheme I wanted.
The power of modifying blogs, other other Content Management Systems, is through the editing of the Style Sheets. After a lot of tweaking over the weekend, the Style sheet that came with this theme only vaguely resembles the original, as it has been greatly modified for the Gur42 networks.
Having been somewhat inactive with web building for a few years, I am discovering, and in some cases rediscovery cool tools for web geeks. The use of Firebug over the week end greatly helped in the creation of the themes using Style Sheets.
Check it out...
What is Firebug?
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
http://getfirebug.com/whatisfirebug
This link is CSS Specific ... http://getfirebug.com/css
This blog uses a script know as Serendipity. I choose it because I used it in my teaching days, as I found it one of the quickest scripts to get up and running for a blog or content management system. I had this blog up and running in an evening. To speed up the process I used a template that was fairly close to the color scheme I wanted.
The power of modifying blogs, other other Content Management Systems, is through the editing of the Style Sheets. After a lot of tweaking over the weekend, the Style sheet that came with this theme only vaguely resembles the original, as it has been greatly modified for the Gur42 networks.
Having been somewhat inactive with web building for a few years, I am discovering, and in some cases rediscovery cool tools for web geeks. The use of Firebug over the week end greatly helped in the creation of the themes using Style Sheets.
Check it out...
What is Firebug?
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
http://getfirebug.com/whatisfirebug
This link is CSS Specific ... http://getfirebug.com/css
Monday, April 5. 2010
Preparing for Tech Disasters...
When I get my "geek sites" fully functional, I will save really geek stuff like this at those sites, but for now, I'm posting this here to share with fellow geeks.
With all the crazy viruses going around, I've helped a few folks in recent days start thinking about disaster recovery. I'll put together a detailed article on how to use these tools later, but wanted to share the links here before I forget to make note of them...
Clonezilla live is an open source application suitable for single machine backup and restore. (Similar to Symantec "GHOST")
Check it out at http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/
SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk.
Check it out at http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
With all the crazy viruses going around, I've helped a few folks in recent days start thinking about disaster recovery. I'll put together a detailed article on how to use these tools later, but wanted to share the links here before I forget to make note of them...
Clonezilla live is an open source application suitable for single machine backup and restore. (Similar to Symantec "GHOST")
Check it out at http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/
SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk.
Check it out at http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
Thursday, April 1. 2010
"Cleaning Up" the web domains...
Questy.us is also now mirroring the "Worlds of Questy" structure. For instance http://questy.com/ is the HTML coded Worlds of Questy website, and Questy.net and Questy.us are mirrors of the structure.
Also going through all the domains so that if someone tries to find them, they at least link to something. For instance philosophyguru.org has a Tombstone HTML page, that is a page simply to mark where the site will be, and philosophyguru.info is likewise a mirror of it.
This will all make a lot more sense once the sites are rebuilt, but this is the beginning of the reorganization my domain names.
See the side panel on this site where there is a small directory of all the web sites.
Also going through all the domains so that if someone tries to find them, they at least link to something. For instance philosophyguru.org has a Tombstone HTML page, that is a page simply to mark where the site will be, and philosophyguru.info is likewise a mirror of it.
This will all make a lot more sense once the sites are rebuilt, but this is the beginning of the reorganization my domain names.
See the side panel on this site where there is a small directory of all the web sites.
Saturday, February 20. 2010
computerguru.net
In August of 2009 I installed Joomla at computerguru.net.
My notes from that that time was that there were plenty of holes in the documentation, and at times not well organized, a Wiki with many issues! Looking through the Joomla Resource Directory, looking for additional templates, did not find anywhere near the resources there, as in free templates, as I could find for either XOOPS or Drupal.
Since that time I have had numerous spam as a result of the install, with numerous new users joining a web site that never got beyond the install shell.
People have way too much time on their hand, and need to get a life!!!
At this point in time Drupal has become my CMS of choice. At some time in the near future there will be a Drupal based site at computerguru.net. For now I have removed the Joomla based site and replaced it with a simple "tombstone" page.
My notes from that that time was that there were plenty of holes in the documentation, and at times not well organized, a Wiki with many issues! Looking through the Joomla Resource Directory, looking for additional templates, did not find anywhere near the resources there, as in free templates, as I could find for either XOOPS or Drupal.
Since that time I have had numerous spam as a result of the install, with numerous new users joining a web site that never got beyond the install shell.
People have way too much time on their hand, and need to get a life!!!
At this point in time Drupal has become my CMS of choice. At some time in the near future there will be a Drupal based site at computerguru.net. For now I have removed the Joomla based site and replaced it with a simple "tombstone" page.
Saturday, February 13. 2010
Keeping My Mind Organized
Keeping My Mind Organized -- What a Concept!
Wondering if this will do the trick, need to check it out ...
WikkaWiki is a flexible, standards-compliant and lightweight wiki engineā written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages. Forked from WakkaWiki. Designed for speed, extensibility, and security. Released under the GPL license.
Compared to heavier wiki engines, which integrate several built-in functions, WikkaWiki's goal is to keep its core as small as possible while developing an architecture that supports easy extensibility through plugin modules.
WikkaWiki Homepage
Will take a quick look at it as a standalone app, the "Integrating Wikka with other software" page does not have any really new activity.
Another, somewhat similar application, FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map) software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations.
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Wondering if this will do the trick, need to check it out ...
WikkaWiki is a flexible, standards-compliant and lightweight wiki engineā written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages. Forked from WakkaWiki. Designed for speed, extensibility, and security. Released under the GPL license.
Compared to heavier wiki engines, which integrate several built-in functions, WikkaWiki's goal is to keep its core as small as possible while developing an architecture that supports easy extensibility through plugin modules.
WikkaWiki Homepage
Will take a quick look at it as a standalone app, the "Integrating Wikka with other software" page does not have any really new activity.
Another, somewhat similar application, FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map) software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations.
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Tuesday, January 12. 2010
Really Geek Speak - Network Management Tools
One of these days I will actually get SmartTechnology.info or Computerguru.net up and running as a resource. Until that happens I will throw some things here on my blog so I do not forget about them.
The first item I was looking for was a quick tool to inventory what was on the network. Awhile back I put up a link to KomodoLabs.com (http://www.komodolabs.com/) for a product called Newt. I am using the Freeware version to do quick network scans.
The Newt Freeware version is very quick and easy to use, and gives very basic information such as Machine Name, IP Address, MAC Address, User name, CPU and RAM. The professional version is not all that expensive (about $2 per node), and will gather tons of information about the workstations on your network. Pretty cool tool.
The other item that I was looking for was a bandwidth measuring tool. I had used a product in the past, but had forgotten what it was called. Alas, I have rediscovered that product, it is Qcheck. Qcheck, is a network troubleshooting utility from Ixia, quickly checks network response time, throughput, and streaming performance. Check it out here IxChariot Qcheck Network Management tool.
Qcheck is a pretty cool free tool, and IxChariot makes some sophisticated network analysis tools as well.
One last resource I will add to my list, Paessler which has some cool tools for monitoring network traffic and bandwidth. Check out this link http://www.paessler.com/tools
To those of you out there, looking for any tools you can get to help manage a WAN, hope you enjoy using the above mentioned tools as much as I do, hope this helps you!
The first item I was looking for was a quick tool to inventory what was on the network. Awhile back I put up a link to KomodoLabs.com (http://www.komodolabs.com/) for a product called Newt. I am using the Freeware version to do quick network scans.
The Newt Freeware version is very quick and easy to use, and gives very basic information such as Machine Name, IP Address, MAC Address, User name, CPU and RAM. The professional version is not all that expensive (about $2 per node), and will gather tons of information about the workstations on your network. Pretty cool tool.
The other item that I was looking for was a bandwidth measuring tool. I had used a product in the past, but had forgotten what it was called. Alas, I have rediscovered that product, it is Qcheck. Qcheck, is a network troubleshooting utility from Ixia, quickly checks network response time, throughput, and streaming performance. Check it out here IxChariot Qcheck Network Management tool.
Qcheck is a pretty cool free tool, and IxChariot makes some sophisticated network analysis tools as well.
One last resource I will add to my list, Paessler which has some cool tools for monitoring network traffic and bandwidth. Check out this link http://www.paessler.com/tools
To those of you out there, looking for any tools you can get to help manage a WAN, hope you enjoy using the above mentioned tools as much as I do, hope this helps you!
Wednesday, December 30. 2009
"To Do" for the Guru42 Web sites
... Really need to get the Guru42 Web sites to feed off of each other, sounds like top of the 2010 "To Do" list, get RSS feeds from blog (guru42.net) and personal portal (guru42.net) on main site, guru42.com
Wednesday, November 11. 2009
Open Office Links
OpenOffice.org is a great office application suite distributed as free software. Was looking for some templates today when I found the links to them, thought I would share those here. (Plus it gives me a quick way to book mark them later!)
Open Office Templates --> http://templates.services.openoffice.org/
The OpenOffice.org Wiki is for all projects associated with OpenOffice.org (OOo). It has a good focus on resources for developers. --> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page
Open Office Templates --> http://templates.services.openoffice.org/
The OpenOffice.org Wiki is for all projects associated with OpenOffice.org (OOo). It has a good focus on resources for developers. --> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page
Thursday, November 5. 2009
My new technology adventures
I am re-inventing a lot of what I used to do with Zenworks using open source, or lower cost stuff. Just wanted to take a moment to jot this down, hopefully to follow up more later in detail.
Refining my imaging using Clonezilla: http://clonezilla.org/
Doing asset inventory using Newt: http://www.komodolabs.com/
Refining my imaging using Clonezilla: http://clonezilla.org/
Doing asset inventory using Newt: http://www.komodolabs.com/
Tuesday, September 1. 2009
A script called LightNEasy used to rebuild AmericanPhilosopher.US
In reading up on Content Management Systems over the weekend I stumbled across a script called LightNEasy. Not quite a full fledged CMS, in the sense that you can use it without a database, just using it to create flat files.
I had planned to rebuild American Philosopher (http://americanphilosopher.us/). Not a very complex site, just was going to use it to collect some poltical philosophy notes. Had actually thought of using this site as an model to do some hand coded PHP, but this seemed to be a good site to try out LightNEasy.
Over the course of the last two evenings I have downloaded, installed, and tweaked the templates to the point where they are similar to the site that used to be at americanphilosopher.us. Have a few bugs to iron out, but the base site is in place, and now that the basic site is build, adding pages is just a matter of cutting and pasting.
I had planned to rebuild American Philosopher (http://americanphilosopher.us/). Not a very complex site, just was going to use it to collect some poltical philosophy notes. Had actually thought of using this site as an model to do some hand coded PHP, but this seemed to be a good site to try out LightNEasy.
Over the course of the last two evenings I have downloaded, installed, and tweaked the templates to the point where they are similar to the site that used to be at americanphilosopher.us. Have a few bugs to iron out, but the base site is in place, and now that the basic site is build, adding pages is just a matter of cutting and pasting.
Sunday, August 30. 2009
In search of CMS building magic ...
Happy with the status of the Drupal installs for now at guru42.com and guru42.net, thought I would try to get the Joomla install at computerguru.net, and the XOOPS install at smarttechnology.info up to the same level, with the same approximate theme, and a small amount of content. Also wanted to get some RSS feeds going between all sites.
First the XOOPS install at smarttechnology.info, theme is the "Questy" colors, need to tweek that a bit to update it, (as in the old footer information). Thought it would be easy to get it up to speed simply by installing all the extra modules I had. Came to a bump in the road with that idea. The news feed module did not work properly, going to the support site I found a few other "news" modules, and downloaded them.
Following up on the Joomla install at computerguru.net, read through the Joomla! Official Documentation. Plenty of holes in the documentation, and at times not well organized, a Wiki with many issues! Looking through the Joomla Resource Directory, looking for additional templates, did not find anywhere near the resources there, as in free templates, as I could find for either XOOPS or Drupal.
Taking a break from reading over the documentation, I spent a few hours surfing through comments and demos at opensourceCMS.com comparing XOOPS to Drupal to Joomla, and reading the many comments there. Followed at link to the Open Source CMS Award stuff at http://www.packtpub.com/award. Interesting ... 2008 Open Source CMS Award; Overall Winner: 1. Drupal 2. Joomla! ; The 2007 Open Source CMS Award Overall Winner: 1. Drupal 2. Joomla!
I will continue on with my comparisons, but it is starting to look like Drupal may soon be my #1 choice as well. The other issue left to decide is which CMS will be the next in line. While Joomla has been the runner up to Drupal at the Open Source CMS web site, I'm still wondering if it will win me over. Stay tuned...
First the XOOPS install at smarttechnology.info, theme is the "Questy" colors, need to tweek that a bit to update it, (as in the old footer information). Thought it would be easy to get it up to speed simply by installing all the extra modules I had. Came to a bump in the road with that idea. The news feed module did not work properly, going to the support site I found a few other "news" modules, and downloaded them.
Following up on the Joomla install at computerguru.net, read through the Joomla! Official Documentation. Plenty of holes in the documentation, and at times not well organized, a Wiki with many issues! Looking through the Joomla Resource Directory, looking for additional templates, did not find anywhere near the resources there, as in free templates, as I could find for either XOOPS or Drupal.
Taking a break from reading over the documentation, I spent a few hours surfing through comments and demos at opensourceCMS.com comparing XOOPS to Drupal to Joomla, and reading the many comments there. Followed at link to the Open Source CMS Award stuff at http://www.packtpub.com/award. Interesting ... 2008 Open Source CMS Award; Overall Winner: 1. Drupal 2. Joomla! ; The 2007 Open Source CMS Award Overall Winner: 1. Drupal 2. Joomla!
I will continue on with my comparisons, but it is starting to look like Drupal may soon be my #1 choice as well. The other issue left to decide is which CMS will be the next in line. While Joomla has been the runner up to Drupal at the Open Source CMS web site, I'm still wondering if it will win me over. Stay tuned...
