I know exactly where this blog stands in the realm of things, and that is a good reason I talk about computers from a bystander’s viewpoint. That is who wants a non-technical perspective. My delayed exposure to Internet programming is well-explained in the past. I learned early not to bet heavily on new software. That’s why MS .NET (“dot NET”) is a topic today.The reality is that experience has taught me not to bother with MS products that have 900 page manuals. Thus, it was only while researching ASPs (Active Server Pages, that I discover .NET is the current MS offering of interactive web pages. Oh, I’d seen the books on the shelves for years, but why bother to look. Not only does MS complicate everything, they always seem to be catching up to smaller, leaner operations. So if it seems that I am the last to learn about anything by MS, remember that without formal schooling on these actual products, most people know as little as I do. Make that as I did.
Some may not like it being pointed out, but the fact is MS missed the Internet by years. Then they come charging into the field with hastily slapped together software that flies only by momentum. It is another illuminating trait of MS that the product name tells nobody what it is supposed to do. .NET indeed, like we’re going fishing. There’s MS’s you’re-supposed-to-know attitude again, coupled with a marketing department of inbreds.
I’ve sensed that this .NET is overkill for my needs, and my decision is to stick with interactive Javascript unless the future proves it inadequate or non-secure. I was struck by the number of warnings about Javascript until I noticed they were all published by MS. Not that other companies are any better, for example, I have three very well-thumbed books on Javascript. None of them give any details about the necessity to install a feature called IIS onto your computer before Javascript works right. It’s not their job, see, to clue you in that their script won’t work in and by itself – another sign they are the “other 99%” of people in the computer field.
Where things stand now is that I’ve got a good idea of what programs and code I need to swap Javascript variables between a client (home computer) and a server (Internet computer). With IIS, I can emulate a server. As soon as that is accomplished, I will begin designing a database that displays query results on a table. When that is done, I move to Stage 2. Relax and I’ll tell you what that is.
Over a period of years when I first arrived in Florida, I went to a dozen of those phony seminars held in second-rate hotel conference rooms. You know the ones, plying the time-worn fear of loss/hope of gain formula. I was not there to buy, but to watch closely how other people were roped in by the hundreds. The average sale was $800 to 300 people, or a cool quarter million for a two hour pep talk. Most memorable are the 900 numbers scam, the foreign exchange flim-flam and the stock-spread software swindle.
This is where I began to ask, if people will pay that kind of money for a ridiculous idea, what might they pay for a true, legitimate Internet-based work at home concept like mine? I have no pangs claiming my idea is the only real and original Internet business ever devised. All, repeat all, others, you name it, are a con job in some manner. How mine fares is something you’ll have to keep returning here for news.
It is library Monday, and the library was still open with or without State funding. While in that how-to section, I grabbed a couple books on a related vein: home businesses that are NOT Internet based. I am appalled by the suggestions. No doubt millions of seniors will be reduced to such menial “yobs” as sidewalk monkeys and doggie-doo pickup services but I doubt any of you wish it on your parents. It cannot be denied these jobs are the intellectual equivalents of what most of the middle-class did in an office all their lives. But washing cars and cleaning apartments gets a little tough when you are pushing 70 and can’t even do your own.
Don’t even consider free-lance writing. There are 200,000 such persons, with less than a 0.1% success rate. We’ll see a crest of memoir type offerings soon, but I doubt if an iota of the baby boomers, even if they could be re-trained to think and write properly, will have anything worthwhile to say. How do you market “The World According to A Chrysler Foreman” or “Death of a Human Resources Administrator”? Or electrifying gems like “Confessions of a 300 Pound Filing Clerk” and “My Life At the DMV”. God save our people.
Food trivia is always a winner, proving I never get writer’s block. Today, we look at the perennial Kraft Dinner, still and by far the best selling American “dinner product” of all time. The original (KD ver. 1.0 you might say) has not changed since it hit the market in 1937. There have been variations, such as the Deluxe dinner, but the only difference is the cheese comes already prepared. It is actually the investigation of this Deluxe cheese that supplied me with all this information.
You see, the Deluxe cheese has the same ingredients as Kraft Cheeze-Whiz. I suspect they are one and the same. I was wistfully expecting the Deluxe cheese to be better. Now explain why the powdered cheese you mix up yourself is such a nice golden orange. That’s easy. Read the label. Paprika.
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