[Netreach-L] from Peter Wingfield-Stratford

[P. Wingfield-Stratford]

To NetReachers
 From Peter Wingfield-Stratford
peterws at ytobeistodo.demon.co.uk

Hi All NetReachers

Im all out there too and still mostly all there !!!

News from Oxford

Oxford Barn is still as it was, a bit dusty and dead bumblebees !
I have to lay a new cable for the Broadband as it just has a Wireless 
now
we disposed of the old computer telephone line. Most of my work is done 
now in the house.

Im still working on my History of Healing told in Art and Culture.
Called Traditions of Health. Its  an idea that came from my
work a long time ago with Conrad Gorinsky you may recall.

I still use my midget hand scanner and Direct store the OCR text
but now have found a mobile phone camera takes photos detailed enough
to OCR and do that on a big software package. Its a good way to copy 
picture from books too and sometimes saves a lot of problems. I can
move stuff from the Main PC to the Ipaq and the Mobile and scanner very 
easily by a lot of fancy things, wires, Infra Red, Bluetooth etc.

Its become a lot of electronic data content and much of it hangs round 
my neck in An Ipaq PDA. It is more convenient to edit in a social sense 
that way so Im doing that now quite a lot. My main job is data-capture 
and sorting sifting and collating it into files for a massive database 
system.

Im using a digital Ordnance Survey map on the Ipaq to check my data 
locations and mark a lot of places with flags so I can find them and 
maybe visit a few. Thats how usefully technology interacts nowadays. !: 
25000 OS maps on the Ipaq are amazing. Tom Tom is a toy by comparison. I 
have garnered a few French digital maps and am interested in any for 
Spain, Italy and Germany if people can help. I need location indices 
with 1: 25000 scale maps for PC Windows 2000 on  or Windows Mobile 5.

I have abstracted  vast Vast place name location list for all UK OS. I 
am trying to sort out placename term-synonyms matching to topics in my 
TOH database. Aka Wells - just the term 'well' finds over 600 matches in 
letters A-B of the whole of UK Map placenames. Just think how many wells 
there were that people thought at one time to be important ! And there 
are lots of synonyms and other terms I need to cover.

Im finding out a lot of interesting history. Wells leads to Lepers, 
which leads to Pilgrimages, Almshouses and hospitals. Anyone want a 
potted history of the Knights Hospitallers, or the Miraculous Icons ? I 
seem to have lists of a galaxy of Healing saints art found in art works 
all over Europe, let alone miraculous springs, wells, lakes, caves, 
stones, relics and other oddities. We even found a Wellhouse of a Holy 
Well designed by Christopher Wren in an outpost of Stanton St John ! Its 
extraordinary.

A lovely Prof Sournier in Paris at age 80 plus in his pyjamas told me 
there are more things connected with healing going on in the streets of 
Paris than in many hospitals there. I think I begin to understand. Now 
begins the big task, to fit it all into a logic structure that people 
can interrogate.

This project cant fit into a linear format, a Hypebase is the only 
solution.
Its because of the nature of the Hyper-base that I have to develop a 
novel
presentation to deliver the historical material. It has to be internet 
deliverable and conventional pocketed databases are inherently 
unsuitable for storage. I have to store linear text it seems covering 
from the time of Adam & Eve to Darwin and with capability to splinter 
data of any date into parts that represent the topics of the filing 
system and recover data for display as any format of material, text or a 
variety of media. Searching and Finding atoms of data for recovery is 
another interesting problem - aka Google.

I have been studying Java quite a lot, so I can develop a peculiar
presentation software application for the database. I am still using
the crazy software IDE called Build-It that makes the Java logic fairly
straightforward. Unfortunately the firm went belly up in Queensland
and folded deregistered last year so it is a development system up for 
grabs. I can continue to use everything if I can replace my Java 
Compiler.

I am now looking for a Java Afficiano who can help me find a part
of the Sun Original Java source software of the Javac compiler. I have 
to compare the decompiled source code of my Java Compiler Class with 
original Sun Javac source code to understand how to adapt a modern Javac 
compiler. Sun gives later source code out a Public domain, but not Ver 
1.2. Javac source code. I need the original to make the job simpler.

Can anyone find me a Source Code for Javac Ver 1.2 ??

Can anyone find me someone HIGH in Sun Corp (now Oracle) to help ??

Did IBM or Borland get a copy of Suns Javac Ver 1.2 source code ???

Stanton St John is lovely still, The garden is different, but the pubs 
still both going and the view is idyllic. We lost the Post Office but 
keep the shop. We still patronise the Oxford Tube and its still every 10 
mins.
The Church Bells now ring music again after silence for 30 years.

Jane and I are now proud Grandparents to Iona May.
The Air is still fairly Thin up here but despite that
Im usually fit enough still for a 12 mile hike on the Ridgeway.

Dear Tom Ruben passed away this time last year. I heard the BOOG Osborne 
user group is at last being wound up. Latterly many of the
NetReach country-meetings enjoyed company from BOOG and GLOW
as well as NetReach and prospered under the efficient organisation of 
Tom Ruben. He was a really lovely man and his like will be missed.

Toms' Executor has been in touch and I plan to help her sort out his 
stuff, but John Parmigiani has already been on that too. I am hoping 
maybe to find a list of Osborne folk and Glow and Boogers in a short 
while maybe.

Those who came to The HoneyCafe will be glad to hear Lynn Hurn is 
managing OK also the Cafe. Talgarth took the headlines recently as they 
cultivate Daffodills now and the idea is to process them for drugs - 
Alzheimers ??? I thought they were poisonous by the way. Perhaps its 
Bulbous Euthanasia !!!

Politics and IT
I occasionally write to MPs about IT concerns and am very concerned at 
the present climate of increasing reduction of freedoms for electronic 
information, also the loss of privacy in all forms of mail and database 
also scattering private data to whoever of all forms of finance and 
taxation. Its absurd. Can Big Brother REALLY make use of all that data. 
If not its crap. Best thing is an alliance to publish electronic rubbish 
and swamp them all !

Did you hear Brits invented the Search  engine in Scotland, long before 
Google !  We can surely come up with a way to defeat all the snoopery.

NetReach Forever, maybe rename as NatterNet.

Peter Wingfield-Stratford

In message <33689079449641159088C8DD9BBDF17A at gc009>, Geoff Cox 
<gcox at freeuk.com> writes
>Hello,
> 
>I?ve just seen Sabine?s question re who is still around!
> 
>
>I am still involved in creating web sites.
> 
>Three current ones are for educational research projects - speech
>problems, how we feeling music and sign recognition for deaf people.
> 
>The results from the music one were the subject of a Royal Institution
>meeting last Wednesday.
> 
>
>Re other people ? Len is no longer living mostly in Worcester Park but the
>other side of London. The Sutton Library Computer Club which both Len
>and I were involved with came to an end a year or so ago.
>
> 
>Who else is out there?!
> 
>Cheers,
> 
>Geoff
> 
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P. Wingfield-Stratford