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I taught a class of teachers today. It was a two-hour course for these technology renewal credits that everyone seems to need. The first course, a tester course, was basic HTML. I went through what a tag is, how they come in pairs, all the way through font sizing, picture inserting, listing, etc. It was an interesting experience. I have about four more courses to teach (each with different topics), and I will probably be nervous before every one of them, but it wasn’t a bad experience at all. There were some talkers, namely a certain freshman ELP and AP U.S. Gov’t teacher, another ELP teacher that gets stuck with…

I was kidding. Really. Sit back down. I talked to my mother today (who is still out of town). Not only has her cell phone mysteriously developed a case of leaking battery acid, but she doesn’t quite know when she’s coming back. Uh, hey? Not to be totally selfish and deny my mother-deary the (dubious) pleasure of her family’s company, but… she has no idea when she’s coming back. Dad and I are going to run out of food soon (him way before me, because he’s a lazy bum that won’t cook) and Dad can’t do his own laundry either. But the fact that she doesn’t know when she’s getting…

Now that I have converted the CommentWorks to use CDOSYS and have tweaked my site stats app to disregard my IP address (which is pretty much static anyway, as I’m on a small network), I am ready to start my homework. *grin* If anyone is interested in the code for CommentWorks, visit the BlogWorks site (see the link on the right). If anyone is interested in the CDOSYS code that replaces the JMail code, visit http://www.marksite.tk/.

*Sigh*. I want to use the latest CommentWorks, which would e-mail me every time a new comment was posted, so I don’t have to visit my own site to find the comments left by people and thus screw up my site stats. However .net playground (my wonderfully free web host) doesn’t support JMail, the component used by Adrian Frost to make the MailBack feature. So I am attempting to use CDOSYS (and save my files as .aspx) as suggested by .net playground. I have never had any luck with this crap, and doubt I will start to now. But I shall continue to experiment….

The above describes my opinion of the last several hours of trying to make w.Bloggar work with BlogWorks XML. I just keep having to take deep breaths and telling myself that Max (my laptop) won’t work for me anymore if I beat the living crap out of him. Besides, it’s not his fault. I don’t know whose fault it is. I can access the listen.asp file from my browser, and the XML’s string element says “error parsing the xml passed to the server : rpcserver(1)”. Maybe that’s okay, given that I’m not using the app I’m supposed to to access it, just IE. But when I attempt to connect with…