In my old post “Being a Good Netizen“, I have some VFP sample code to retrieve my RSS feed. In there is a section that looks like this:

lcType = ""

lnHRequest = HttpOpenRequest(lnHConn, ;
    "GET", RSSFEED, "HTTP/1.1", ;
    "", @lcType, 0, 0)

Unfortunately, the web server I’m running against appears to have been updated since I wrote that code, and it no longer works. The issue is the lcType variable: it is supposed to point to an array of null-terminated strings that give the data types that that command can accept. A null Fox string makes the server think that the client can’t accept anything it has to serve up. However, if we pass NULL (or 0), it properly recognizes that we’re saying “send whatever you want”.

lnHRequest = HttpOpenRequest(lnHConn, ;
    "GET", RSSFEED, "HTTP/1.1", ;
    "", NULL, 0, 0)

My favorite math teacher at Classical High was Mrs. Tamara Temkin. (I have to specify the whole name, because there was a Mrs. Temkin in the English Department too. :-) ) I was the only one to show up for the first day of class, as the freshmen started before the upper classes, and I was in a math class that did not typically have freshmen in it, even at the city’s top public high. She was rather surprised to have someone there, but rather than tell me to sit around and wait for the rest of the class to show up in a few days, she spent the period talking with me.

Over the next couple of years, she was very supportive, helping me with year-early college applications and whatever else came along. When MIT turned me down, she used her contacts in the Admission Office to get details on why (they didn’t think I was ready for college after 11th grade, apparently). After I left Classical, I lost touch with her, but always remembered her.

I just found her obituary: she died earlier this year. Wish I had kept in touch.

Update: grr. That’s what I get for not reading my own alumni magazine…

I’ve wanted a TabletPC since I first saw them, but I haven’t been able to put together the money to buy one, and it’s probably not going to happen in the near future.

So, let’s try this.

If you’re a Tablet manufacturer and you want a blogger to beta test your latest and greatest, let me know. I promise to make all my blog posts for a month using the Tablet, and to give a full report on pluses, minuses, and general feelings at the end of that month, to be posted here as well as sent directly to you, along with any other feedback that comes up over the course of the test.

I’ll also try to post a new application of some sort. It probably won’t be anywhere near as cool as Microsoft Sudoku, but I’ll see what I can manage. :-)

Anybody? :-)

David T. Anderson tells us why the often-neglected Microsoft OneNote can be useful for those of use who haven’t put together the money for that extra TabletPC yet.

I don’t think so. Thanks again to Laura — we need to make sure this sort of thing doesn’t go unchallenged, anywhere, anytime.

Someone was kind enough to sync up Back to the Future and Back to the Future II, so we could see exactly where Marty was at all times during the dance.

Thanks loads to Laura for the heads-up. :-)