Daynote ,Svenson

MM-xxxxvii     Wednesday

2000-02-16

We didn't have weather today. !-- It started off this morning at 6h00 with a clear open starry sky and 4°C. When I got to my car some ten minutes later it was drizzling, just out of towns, must have been 5 minutes later again, I got a serious shower of hail stones. When I reached Genk that stopped and the rain slackened off again so that by the time I got on the highway it was dry again. About 20Km further (another ten minutes) the wind picked up suddenly and with such force that I had problems keeping the car on a straight line. Just after Born it started to rain again, with the wind not slacking off, and a few kilometer further the rain turned into sleet. By the time I reached Venlo it was dry again. On the road home this evening it was dry with only a little breeze but I noticed several places with snow and ice still on the grass besides the road. -->

Theo redistributed some of my workload, passing some of it to Koen. So now I will probably finish early with what is left. Well I did finish a few more II/DR programs, but new ones keep cropping up.

Robert Ruelle in Belgium has tackled the S3 problem, well almost. He installed the new program and he has isolated the problem records in the S3 itself. He only has to delete these now but he was a bit nervous deleting data from his production database. He just needs some hand holding and a few reassurances. Once he really understands the situation he is ready to go.

I am home early. Yep, the first time this year I leave the office well before 18h00, I actually stay only 20 minutes longer than. I should.

But then my brother comes in. He has a problem with some texts that we scanned in and OCR-ed last week. He gets a lot of notes at work but all are on paper so we often scan them in and convert them to .txt files. He converts these to WordPerfect 5.0 (indeed the DOS age format) for correcting and referencing. The problem now is that he can not reach the end of the texts, he is always missing a few pages. When I try to read them on my computer I am also missing some parts. The strange thing is that each editor reacts different. Word Pro drops the last page(s) from some files and refuses some other files, WP-Win (6.1) drops other parts (on one it drops all the text without giving a message) and on some files it complains about the file format. Word pad cannot open some files and drops yet other parts of those files it can open. Well, I try various editors, both on Win and OS/2 but I never get the texts loaded fully.
He'l bring the papers back for re-scanning tomorrow.

Adios