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Amy, you really amaze me and I'm very appreciative of all your hard work. Thank you bunches for not giving up on PhinisheD when that would have been the easy way out. I'm sure it's frustrating but please know that you and PhinisheD have helped me through some rough times. Rochelle

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Sorry Alexander - its short hand for Off Topic, doesn't make as much sense here but when we stray from the topic of our thesis or diss we went to an OT board... Things like this - that have nothing to do with my thesis but with my life - update on Liam Liam is going in for ear tubes this wed but he went to see the foot Dr today and we where told he looks great and to come back in 6 months. (I bet this even doesn't make much sense unless you know that Liam is my 22 month old son who was born with biliteral club feet and will be getting ear tubes on Wed! :) ) Update on the package - still have no clue if it got there! Guess I'll be calling SF tomarrow in the early afternoon. sigh. Chrissie

Good luck with the tubes! Mary Ann

On the Off Topic Board a while ago we discussed joining Tom in his Disscam venture. I bought a netcam about a year ago with the intention of doing a disscam of my own but...life happens. But this past weekend I pulled the cam out of the box and voila!!......SamCam. Of course in the name of frittering I built a dissertation site around it and it can now be found at SamCam Please feel free to email me with any suggestions or comments. I am till looking for a chat program that doesn't take forever to load...any suggestions? Samantha

Hey Samantha, Glad you're online! Many of the chat programs I've seen, such as the dinky little one I run on my site, require you to have your own server to run them. Most of the others are Java applets that use someone else's server, such as xoom.com. (I've always avoided xoom.com, because their logo of the black x inside the circle seems vaguely facistic to me...don't know why!) Anyway, if you're interested, drop me an e-mail and I might have some links to examples you can take a look at. However, I gotta warn y u: chat can be a time sink and a major distraction, so think twice before doing it!     -Tom

Samantha How exactly do you get to your discam? I clicked on the link in your last mail, but I couldn't see a camera view, nor a button to get there. (Don't mean for you to fetter time away in trying to sort this out!)

Anita- There should be a link on the image map in the left frame that says disscam network, or you can skip the framed version and go straight to the cam by clicking Here but then you get to miss all of the other fun stuff that you find at the link above. Let me know if this works. Samantha

I saw you I saw you! How exciting. Nice to put a face to the name. Now keep working!

Hee Hee! I saw you too! You appeared to be working very hard. Now it is time for me to go and get to work. I guess. Congratulations on your cam! Mary Ann