The temperature nose dived further, to 4°C producing a misty morning. With no clouds to be spotted however the mist soon got displaced by a bright sunny day.

I got a rather unproductive day. And I have nobody (but me) to blame for it.
Well I did have two crashes of Win95 on the PC but that is just one more than usual. Until about two months ago I had to reboot my PC only once a week, well maybe not even that but I did shut it down for the weekend. Since Progress version-9 got installed I have to boot at least once a day. After about 8 hours working it suddenly starts to slow down and if I don't reboot then it will either lock up solid or do an automatic boot or starts to throw BSODs or resource-is-low messages (win16 style) at me. It does this even if I don't start anything from Progress itself so I guess some DLL got replaced by a buggy one when we installed.

Yesterday, about noon the mail server (Exchange) at Oce started to misbehave.
Most people are using Outlook 98 and typically start that up in the morning and close it down in the evening. They did not notice anything wrong. I use Netscape as mail client and I don't keep Outlook open. I didn't receive any outside mail after 8h00 but that is not uncommon and internal mail had no problem. At noon Netscape crashed, nothing spectacular, it does that sometimes and, unlike MS IE it doesn't take the rest of Windows down so I ca simply start Netscape again. After restarting however I could no longer send or receive mail. I always got a message that the server couldn't be reached or that my settings were wrong. I tried to start Outlook bud that couldn't connect to the server either. Ronny, who still had Outlook open since the morning could still send mail. Just before he went home he tried to close and reopen Outlook and he couldn't reach the server either.
This morning everything worked again as it should, I just got an overflowing inbox <g>

 

At home my brother had scribbled a note (paper) on my desk about mail from someone he didn't know (Moshe Bar) that had popped up in his inbox. Normally I send mail from Netscape, for him I had configured Outlook Express to keep mail a bit separate. I did send a mail to Moshe some time ago from Outlook Express without thinking about it. Of course, when Moshe hit the reply button the mail got replied to the sending address (peter at -this-domain- ) and dropped into his mail folder. So I had to explain how addressing mail works. Not that I am an expert in it (yet).
What I found disconcerting is that I was explaining it in Dutch but that I automatically switched to English halfway trough and only noticed that when I reread the text. I guess I am using English too much lately, maybe I should write these daynotes in Dutch. ?.
I forced myself to rewrite the lot in Dutch.

Adios