The �O� in �GEO� is transparent. I have put green background but blue or red backgrounds are not adaptable. From the other hand without background is enough empty. I would like your opinion. John

Why topic 14 does not keep to command of the "Activity within last week"? Today Humans, cannot wait to load so many responses for the past. Informations for the past are bootless almost to all. John

I will check the maps in 14. I was unaware of any of them not working. I delete those whose servers have taken them off-line. I would be delighted to talk to your about how to accomplish what you suggest for Geo 14 when next you are able to IM, John. Is anyone else having difficulties loading the weather maps of choice?

*T E S T* I was unable to post here. I wonder if it has anything to do with my new graphics. Actually, I could not post anywhere in Spring an hour ago!

i like the new graphics--esp. the christmas ones! *woohoo* marcia's getting us in the spirit. john, i have trouble with that option too. (clicking on "activity within the last seven days)

In regards to the activity -7 command, it works for me for Geo 14 http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/Geo/14/since/-7 However, it goes back to a spurious date of 2036 and response 5, which was a long time ago. I don't know if that odd date is the cause of this difficulty but that is where mine goes. Thanks John, for all your help. I hate bothering you when I know you are so busy and you have family and research ahead of Geo on your "things to do" list. The current festive look for Geo is thanks to John's overnight working (my night - his lunch) and the new and improved title graphics. I think we may have each holiday honored by Geo-graphics now that I am getting better at installing the graphics John finds for us. Hugs! (When you stop being so good to Geo, I'll stop hugging you in gratitude!)

I finally caught up with the posts here. Good grief! Greece is absolutely cross-hatched with faults! I have never seen them at right angles before. I think my son would like to see this. He knows parallel faulting just as I do. If you allow, I will email this to him. Many thanks for posting the link. I could not have imagined! You are too generous in your praise for this hostess and programmer. I am struggling along trying to stay one page ahead of everyone else so they don't get bored and go away! I truly appreciate your help!!

I truly appreciate your work Marcia! Yes, you can inform your son about Greek faults. John

Thank you, John. I think the appreciation is mutual. I am in great admiration of your research and vast expertise. Whatever I seem to know a little, you understand completely. We work well together! Happy me! I will let you know what my son says about the faulting of Greece. I still wonder that you not a million little blocks of land in the sea. (Yes, I know there are many which are!

New background and garland on title page thanks to John. I think the star is too big in comparison with earth, but considering what it repersents, perhaps it is just right. We definitely need that shape for the star. I wanted more of a snowy background until after the New Year but it is hard on the eyes to read when it is so bright. I rather like this papyrus-psrchment look. Hugs and thanks, John. I appreciate your help enormously.

Hi all Thank you Marcia. We have very bad weather with rain, snow, and low temperatures. I will be back as they fix my telephone line. Regards John

Be safe, John! Somehow, I did not picture snow so close to the warm beautiful waters of the Aegean Sea. You will be having the white Christmas the rest of us are dreaming about.

I put a flashing star up which I like but it is too much with the spinning globe and swinging bells. This is the star: http://www.spring.net/marci/Public/Seasonal/ani-star-Yellow.gif It flashes to much. I like the gold star I had up before but it did not flash enough. It only it would pulate just a tiny bit... but I don't know how to do that. I tried... http://www.spring.net/marci/Public/Seasonal/gldstrsm.gif Suggestions?

you got me, sweetie! but you're right, the blinking one would be too much!

I changed it back to the gold unblinking star. It got to be difficult to load after posting several times. Perhaps a kind and gentle and far too overworked programmer might be able to make this one change just slightly. Or I could try to place his little gold star here.... but I think it will not be as high as I want the star to be - like it is shining down on earth... I'll try.

It got difficult to load the page with the blinking star. It was labelled "pulsar" and so it is! Far too much for Geo's little front page.

Welcome back, John! We will try to entertain you while your broken leg mends. It will be a pleasure for me... *HUGS*

Hi all, Thank you Marcia and Wolfie where you prayed for me. I am alive and safe. But I cannot move without pain and help. I will stay far of my work for a period greater than two months. Happily, I have my research to spend some of my time, and your warm company to reduce my pain. It was a bad unexplained moment. I was walking inside the factory (going to my office in the morning) on absolutely flat surface with about 5 cm snow. Maybe it was non-visible ice under the snow. I lapsed in the middle of a step. The next moment I was down with my left leg broken and out of joint at the astragal area. I can�t explain why this is happened to me. I was walking very carefully! I tend to believe the destiny! John

don't worry about it, i twisted my back walking home as a kid and it still acts up to this day (i had just stepped funny on some ice). glad to know you're alright (hurting but alright just the same) *HUGS*

Aloha John! Our hugs are a constant resource to draw on for your healing. Prayers, too! I slipped on "black ice" and slid under a moving car whe I was in college. The wheels had just passed me or I would have ben run over by them. It still scares me to think about it even this much later. I also know people who have had terrible falls on plain tiles like the have for floors in shopping malls and market places. The glaze is VERY slippery for some shoes. Then, there is destiny. That is the most slippery of all. I tend to believe that, also! For your entertainment, if you have the means of using telnet: If you are an old timer and know about ASCII, and if you have telnet capability, then try this for fun...Somebody worked very hard to do this: telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl From Bob Shannon-Pinpoint Since 1992 Pinpoint May be found by clicking: http://alert.bobshannon.org

*sigh* My typing is as bad as my headache. I think I am having sympathy pains for John. *Hugs*

I want everyone to know that I do not edit anyone's posts! Weatherlawyer should know by now that editing is a convoluted thing to do - I can only delete and I have done so per his request in Geo 3. I have neither the desire nor the ability to edit someone else's text. It might have been nicer if the accusing party had contacted me about this privately before making comments such as he made. Too bad we had to tighten the security here, too. Thanks for hanging in here with me. I will pass the next new-comer by the regulars next time. I was entirely too trusting!

Marci couldn't edit anyone's posts if she wanted too. No one can. It's not a feature of Yapp.

Thanks for saying that. Tis true!

no need to defend yourself with us marcia, we know you too well *HUGS*

*HUGS* Wolfie. There are folks as ready to leap to your rescue as they are to come to mine. You are very dear tome and thanks for reminding me. I guess it is the littlest child in the family syndrome which makes me explain so much. This time I KNOW it wasn't a guilty conscience. But for those lurking, I just wanted them to know that if they wish to post, whatever they wish to say is what will appear.

*HUGS*

I removed all of Michael2's posts per his request. I hope I got them all.

*sigh* got your email sweetie, don't worry about it! *HUGS*

Unless he is more foolish than I thought, it is out of sight, out of mine. *HUG* Back Atcha

We're all familiar with Internet addresses that end in "net", "com", "edu", "org." And now, a new Internet suffix, "name", has just gone live. Global Name Registry, the company operat- ing the new domain, said .name is the first Internet domain reserved for individuals rather than businesses. It became necessary to expand the number of Internet endings because of the exponential growth of cyberspace. When the Internet was invented, no one realized that so many users would be online. According to the Internet Association for Assigned Names and Numbers there are now some 32 million registered Internet addresses. The company said .name allows an individual to create a per- sonal Web address, www.firstname.lastname.name, as well as an e-mail address, firstname@lastname.name. The company has registered 60,000 domain names and e-mail accounts so far and said that in the future, consumers will be able to use their .name address as their mobile phone number and as a digital key for e-commerce transactions. Individuals will typically pay between $30 and $35 for a domain name and e-mail address. Last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved seven new top-level domain names: .name, .biz, .info, .pro, .museum, .aero and .coop. Although it had been stalled by a lawsuit over its distribution practices, .biz was finally activated in November.

I can get into ftp on Spring but it is entirely different now. I can find geo folder and marci and the old one of mine (marcia) but I cannot fpt to any of them. *sigh* Tomorrow I will ask Terry. Keep the faith, John, Terry'll get it straightened out so you can use space on the hard drive for your research again! I think you will be the means of his immortality as well as your own! Meanwhile, I have removed the background from the Olympic rings and am ready to post them on the title page. Then I decorate for Mardi Gras. Then for Valentine's Day.... then back to Olympics. *sigh* Everything happens at once!

I guess none of that is needed. We are now into lent and we have celebrated Valentine's Day elsewhere. Trying to be patient... (as if I had a choice...)

Does anyone know why I cannot post in Drool?

nope! i've got to try to ftp and see if it works for me.

Hi all Marcia, Geo's numbers are not changing. Even though I have nearly twice that many messages in Rob's GeoWorld, the counter has jammed on 12. The one that I set up my self is okay though. Wolfie, I had a cool idea. Have you got Yahoo Messenger, which both Marcia and I have or ICQ which I also have? I thought it would be cool to instant message you. If you do have them and are interested my number for ICQ is 131739692 and my Yahoo ID is robvolc1980. Rob

i have icq but am having trouble getting it back up on my system. i have MSN messenger but not yahoo. thanks for the contact info! (marcia, i don't even have ftp on this new thing--at least none that i can find and use)

Wolfie, you are in good company. I cannot ftp, I cannot telnet directly to Spring and it too Terry trying to convince him it did not work. We wait patiently... *SIGH* I have Rob's GeoWorld with 20 posts - the 20th being the one I entered on Saturday. I just did a *test* posting and it works for me - post 21. Is your browser messing you up? Hang on and I will try to get a hold of you on Yahoo IM

Hi all The original World Volcanism Group and World Seismicity Group do not exist any more because they had a name change - Global Volcanism and World Earthquakes are the new titles. However, the clubs have been converted to Groups. So what has happened is we now have "worldseismicity" and "worldvolcanism" groups. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Global_Volcanism http://groups.yahoo.com/group/World_Earthquakes I will post the addresses for the converted clubs shortly. Rob

The clubs and groups will not be cokmbined? I'm sorry for posting the GVP reports on the worng site.

Hi all No combining of the club and Group. Yahoo insisted that in the case of clubs and groups, one change their name. I have done this to prevent Yahoo! from making me and as a result we have Global Volcanism and worldvolcanism in one pair, with World Earthquakes and worldseismicity making up the other. We might go on the following format. Say posting the discussion in the worldvolcanism and worldseismicity groups while keeping the technical stuff, like the updates and notices of gatherings etc in the Global Volcanism and World Earthquakes. Sound okay? Rob

Yes, Rob, that sounds great. I'll post the Global Volcanism update on the GV group. Thanks. I wanted to check with you before I posted it. I am also going to split off the eru[tion comments from the data posts which tend to bury the much shorter personal notes. BTW, please tell us what is happening with all of those 5+ M earthquakes today! Did you feel any?

Wolfie, I can't seem to get any thing to take on my FTP attempts today. I wonder what the difficulty is, this time. I do have your orchid photos ready to FTP when I can manage to have it accept my uploads. I am doing it the way I always do and it has always worked... until now. *SIGH*

well, i've got ws ftp on my system again but still can't get into access.spring.net. am trying to use my account at geocities/yahoo for the time being but am having trouble getting in there too!

A Plague has descended on the Internet? I miss this and it means John will not be able to update his graphs. If it continues his work can be found at the following url: http://users.otenet.gr/~bm-ohexwb/invite/inviationGB.htm

From now on, you will be able to see easy my updated graphs in the Geo - Web Library. Simply click at the related link just underneath the title of Geo Conference. You will find also there, much information about the Earthquake Prediction Research and its results. John

Thanks John.

I finished the first web site of Geo - Web Library. It contains also, the Updated World Signals and information for our prediction team. Please inform me if you have any difficulty to access it or if you found some errors in it. John

*HUGS* John. Your webpage and links on the front page of Geo is excellent. Even that wonderful gif file of you and your colleagues works perfectly. What a brilliant concept!

Your accessment of yourself is far too modest. It is out of your innate modesty or some other reason. If you would let me write it... *smile*

I have finally succeeded in being able to ftp to /geo. So I made myself a file. I have no idea why the same password and username does not work on /marci. Terry, I'll email you .....!!! Has anyone see the newly acquired Greek treasure from Crete? The so-called "Ring of Minos" ??? I am busy hunting for it in every possible place I can find.

Have you thought of creating a geo main page, an index.html file that links to all your stuff and forms a centering place? I'll look at /marci.

That is John's kuleana - as we say in Hawaii (his specialty or field of command). He has spoken to me of this before, but it was still in the nebulous stage. Now that you mention it. perhaps I can impose on his time to create this for Geo. Where would we put this main page and index.html? I think it would be fantastic and much easier to navigate amongst the topics than the link below affords. http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/geo/all/

http://www.spring.net/geo/index.html

That link does not work for me. Is it Netscape or me?

You have to make it work! You have to create a file called index.html with links to all your other stuff and put it in geo!

Ok! Might you suggest one such page that has already been created so I have some idea of what it might look like? I only know the topic pages for conferences in Spring. Will it be like firth.com? A spearate entity?

You an be what you want to be, you can have links to all your subpages, an introduction with links to the conferences. Do you want me to rough something up for you?

Please do rough something up so we have an idea of what is possible. Perhaps John already has visions of what he thinks it might be, but we would like your ideas as well. Thanks! I have created the folder as you suggested.

I set up a sample point of departure for you, Marcia, at http://www.spring.net/geo I had to change some permissions to get it to connect with our Front Pagte navigation scheme, so we may have to tweak your ftp settings again.

Thanks, Terry. I also heard from John who is very excited to create something worthy of all that Geo encompasses. Unhappily his modem was rendered useless by lightning over the weekend and numerous power outages have made it impossible to be in contact with the world of Geo and the internet. Great graphics, Terry. Now I understand what this is all about. Many thanks. Last night I was totally unable to imagine this page. Today I am full of ideas. Thanks for your patience and great ideas! *Hugs* Ok, I will also download Front Page today. John also uses it and I know you have recommended it and have used it for Springs entry page. Tweak away - just let us know what we need to enter on the fpt program and we'll be in business.

Try it now and see if you can get in.

I got in. I still cannot download to /marci

Try it again, make sure you log in as 'geo'.

Y Be careful with Frontpage, it's easy to be in the wrong directory and over write other files. Co-ordinate your first session with me so I can do some backups ok?

OK Terry, thanks. I am emailing John your thoughts on this since he is the programmer with the brilliant ideas. I do the tweaking and refinement. As it stands now, he will create them as mock-ups and send them to me for comments. Nothing will be entered into Spring files until it is exactly the way we want it. He and I will also have back ups as much as possible. I have put the the title.html folder under geo/public. Is that where it belongs? Yes, I do login as geo. I'll give it another go. Thanks!

make that index.html ... I really did make it correctly... the only question at the moment is shall that be under geo/public?

It should be in /home/spring.net/geo/index.html I fixed your log in issues.

Thanks - and I updated John's graphic signal chart for today. /home/spring.net/geo/index.html is where it is. Thank you!

Terry, John and I cannot FTP again. Is there something wrong or lightning strikes in Austin? Help!!! Please...

Probably Frontpage, I'll fix it.

Fixed.

Mahalo!!!

I thought I was in word association for a second there.

*laugh* That happens!!! I'm glad I am not alone in this happy confusion.

Terry and John, there appears to be problem when Julie tries to post. Even when I send her the correct commands (which I later successfully post) and look at "view source" using the right mouse button, there are all sorts of things that do not belong there. Why? I even had her paste back to me via email what she had tried to post and it was correct as I posted it successfully. I do not understand. Neither does Poor Julie!

The above difficulty is when Julie tries to post a graphic image of any sort.

her web browser may automatically put stuff in there....hmmm..... marcia, do you think we should create a topic for archeaology so we can dedicate topics to the different areas of exploration? but that would make more work for you (and of course, i'm here to help as time allows). hmmm.....just a thought *HUGS*

Sure. Different from Geo 17? Please feel free to do so. I love new ideas and exploring new topics. When and if I get Don in here he will have a topic on American archaeology and what field archaeology is REALLY all about.

Terry, I just discovered http://www.walhus.com/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/geo/all How lovely!

Hi All, From now on you can see also your sky in our Geo Portal. -Click on Weather, Time & SKY Reports For GEO-Friends -See your time and temperature of your place together with these of the rest Friends in Geo, directly. -Click on your name and see your weather parameters and forecast for the next days. -Click on the icon that shows time/temp. on the left of your name and see the sky upwards of your head for the same moment. I will be happy to answer on any question that you maybe have. Happy sky explorations! John

John! This is brilliant. Not excuses for not kowing what is up there, now! Thanks you so much! I love the new format on the portal page, also. Just when I think you have made the most perfect page ever, you make improvements and I am even more delighted. That is quite an amazing horizontal bar. Is that also your creation or are you even more adept at borrowing the most appropriate graphics? Whatever the case, it is perfect!

waay cool!!

Yes, he is, isn't he? I wonder if he every dreamed his efforts would be considered "waaay cool" *;)

TERRY!!! Could you please link Screwed 174 to Geo conference. Mahalo plenty!

TERRY!!! Please HELP!!! Could you please check why is disappeared topic 17 from the usual lists (All and Activity within last week) of GEO? For those who interested on the archaeology topic please use the link: http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/public/read/Geo/17/since/-7 John

I'll take a look.

Thanks, Terry. Now that we have an archaeologist "on staff" it might be nice to see his topic and when/if anyone has posted!

Terry, John and all concerned with Geo: I searched the totality of Geo's topics. The following are missing: Geo 11 Atmospheric disturbances: Storms and their effects on Earth Geo 12 Bioregions (Terry created this one) Geo 15 Geosites for Kids (Very active posting) Geo 16 Diagnositics - how to identify what you have found Geo 17 Archaeology (VERY important topic!!! PLEASE RESTORE!!!) Geo 27 Geomagnetism Geo 30 Geothermal Activity Geo 38 The Great Work (created by Americ Azevedo and mostly idle) Geo 43 Formation of precious stones (I have stuff to post here from Sikander)) Geo 45 Earth Medicine (Folk medicine Don and I have much to post here!) Geo 52 Geochching (Terry's) Terry, please restore these to the topic lists!

I just entered a "testing" comment in all these topics, there not missing as far as I can see. There was a wierd date thing going on with them and this, (my posting) may have fixed that.

-rw-r--r-- 1 cfadm nogroup 222816 Jul 18 15:30 _27 -rw-r--r-- 1 cfadm nogroup 59329 Jul 18 15:30 _30 -rw-r--r-- 1 cfadm nogroup 4051 Jul 18 15:30 _38 -rw-r--r-- 1 cfadm nogroup 6349 Jul 18 15:30 _43 -rw-r--r-- 1 cfadm nogroup 5156 Jul 18 15:30 _45 -rw-r--r-- 1 cfadm nogroup 3438 Jul 18 15:30 _52 -rw-r--r-- 1 cfadm nogroup 73869 Jul 18 15:31 _56

and space science news is doing that thing where once you read it, it still shows up as unread.

Please check into 17. It is the only one still misiing, and I have a real archaeologist waiting to be active if anyone can see it.

Will you take time today to post something in the Spring's news topic about the meaning and significance of September 11th? It's topic 43 in news which was started a year ago today.

Will do! I had forgotten about that. I posted several things in Geo. I'll do the flag gif also if you'd like.

Until Terry restores John's graphics on the title page of Geo, I created a simple written title.I wish I could find the command to make it bigger than h1

I can see http://www.spring.net/geo/JohnVolos/Public it's publicly readable. Can you be more specific? Please let me know what you can't see.

Bigger than h1? try font size="7" H1 Font Size 7

KEWL!!!

Awright!!!! I will replace the cover graphics John created and perhaps change the globe just for something different. Thanks!