How cool is that?  Just write the entry in  your favorite email program, and send it to the appropriate email destination, and BANG! The latest entry gets published on the ol' blog.

I have been involved in the computer industry, in some capacity for over 25 years.  My first experiences were with game consoles.  I had an Intellivision.  I had an ADAM (anyone remember those?  I even had the hi-speed datasette!).  Next was maybe the Colecovision.  And eventually, the Commodore 64.  Got the 300 baud modem and went online with Q-link.  Then came 1200 baud.  Blimey, we were screaming then.

But it is still good when something can still excite me in the computerfield.  Developing this website has been great fun.  Re-acquainting myself with html.  And moving up to PHP and MySql.  And then this Blog thing.  It is a lot of fun writing, and then self-publishing.  Letting all you bit-voyeurs get a glimpse at what happens to be firing across
my synapses at this moment.

I got a lot of work done today, playing with the used book database.  I have decided to drop the SQLite, and go with MySQL.  Reasons are mostly because the MySQL seems like a 'real' database, and SQLite seems like a
tinker-toy dataset.  Maybe I am wrong, but some of the things I read about SQLite make me leery of using it in a commercial application, no matter how small the venture is.

Want to peek at what I got working today?  Go to the root of the website, then add mysql.php to the address. You should get a tabular display of about 10 or 11 records, and the ability to filter the display, look at a pic (it only displays one pic at this time) and even add the item to a PayPay shopping cart.  The code is not that hard, and
I can see some more improvements in my mind already.

Okay, enough rambling for now, I have some work to do with AOL (America OFF Line).   More later, seeya.