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Date  : December 22, 1995 |CompuNotes is a weekly publication available
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This Week's Contents:

My Notes:
1) Happy Holidays, Mailing List Issues and Web Site!

News:
1) Activision to Distribute More Software
2) Microrim Announces R:Web

Reviews:
1) Jana Contact for Windows95 by Doug Reed ([e-mail])
2) Paparazzi by Gerry Imhoff ([e-mail])

Web Sites:
1) Software Publishing Association (http://www.spa.org)
2) First Virtual Holdings, Inc. (http://www.fv.com)

FTP File:
1) Cenvi 2.0 for OS/2 2.X

Interview:
1)  Raymond Hines, Web Rambler

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                             Patrick's News
         Being The Publisher and Managing Editor Has Its Perks!
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|Happy Holidays . . . |
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    Happy Holidays to you and your families. The end of the year is
special to most everyone in the world. It offers us spiritual and mental
renewal and celebration. I urge each of you to go out of your way this
holiday time and help someone who needs it.

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|Mailing List . . . |
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    No word from the folks who handle the mailing list. I have no idea
if new subscriptions are going through or not. More importantly, I am
not sure if unsubscribes are working . . . Again, this will be sent in
two parts!

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    Please consider adding our web site to your list of links on your
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   NEWS OF THE WEEK| This section is dedicated to verified news . . .
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Activision Growing Again . . . |
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    Los Angeles, CA -- December 13, 1995 -- Underscoring its commitment
to acquire high-quality games from third-party developers worldwide,
Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) has signed an exclusive deal with
Adeline Software International to publish Time Commando, the latest
title by acclaimed multimedia producer Frederick Raynal (Alone in the
Dark, Relentless/Little Big Adventure).  Under the terms of the
agreement, Activision will distribute the game on Windows=AE 95,
MS-DOS=AE and Sony PlayStation in North and South America, Australia
and New Zealand.  The announcement was made today by Bobby Kotick,
Chairman and CEO, Activision, Inc.
    "This latest agreement reinforces our aim to work with some of the
finest creators of interactive entertainment in bringing their
products to the marketplace," explains Kotick.  "We are committed to
providing audiences with the most entertaining, innovative and
original games available, and are very excited to be working with
Frederick Raynal and his company on this extraordinary new project."
    A thrilling action game, Time Commando combines sophisticated 3-D
gameplay with vivid animated sequences immersing the player into an
explosive world of combat.   Featuring nine distinct time periods, the
player travels deep into the past and forward into the future.  In a
desperate attempt to return to his own era, the player battles over 60
enemies using 50 different types of weapons.
    "Activision's strong distribution network and marketing expertise
makes this an excellent match," adds Paul de Senneville, CEO, Adeline
Software International.  "As one of the industry's premiere
publishers, Activision is committed to ensuring that Time Commando
will receive maximum exposure with audiences worldwide."
    Adeline Software International is part of the privately owned
Delphine Group, headquartered in Paris with offices in Lyon.
Established in 1993, Adeline is led by the widely recognized talent of
Frederick Raynal.  Known worldwide since the release of Alone in the
Dark, Raynal and his team completed their first PC CD-ROM title,
Relentless /Little Big Adenture, under the Adeline Software
International brand in December 1994.
    Activision, Inc. is a publicly held developer and publisher of
interactive entertainment software for Microsoft=AE Windows and
MS-DOS=AE-compatible, Macintosh and other computers, as well as
Nintendo, Sega, 3DO, and Sony PlayStation game systems.  Headquartered
in Los Angeles with offices in  London, Tokyo and Sydney, the company
sells and markets products under the Activision and Infocom trade
names.

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Microrim and R:Web . . . |
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    BELLEVUE, Wash.--(NetPOST)--Dec 15, 1995--  Microrim, Inc., a
subsidiary of Abacus Software Group, announces the release of the first
real database for the Internet.
    The product, called R:WEB, was partnered with SBT Internet systems
and is the Internet version of Microrim's leading database management
software, R:BASE.
    R:WEB provides companies that want to conduct business over the
Internet with an affordable, powerful, and programming-free database
solution. R:WEB allows companies to take orders for products or provide
services directly through their "home page" on the Internet's
graphically- friendly World Wide Web. It automatically links their Web
page with their corporate database, whether it's an R:BASE database or
any ODBC- compliant database, allowing real-time solutions to product
orders and inquiries.
    R:WEB is designed to run on a Web server, similarly to the way the
R:BASE database software runs over a local-area network server. When an
Internet user accesses an R:WEB-based form on a Web site, R:WEB
generates a connection to the associated database located on the
company's network server. R:WEB then creates a Web document based on the
form. This form appears on the customer's Internet browser, allowing him
or her to input order information directly into the company's database
exactly as an employee would input it into the database from an e-mail
messaged order--which is currently the most prevalent option.
    R:WEB requires no Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Common Gateway
Interface (CGI), Perl, or C++ programming knowledge.
    Internet customers can browse through real-time data such as
inventory quantities, enter their own shipping and billing information,
and easily request information directly from an R:BASE or ODBC-compliant
database through the organization's WWW site.
    "The release of R:WEB opens the door to efficient and affordable
Internet data processing. Imagine the power of ordering a product on-
line and having the data processing completely automated. No time is
lost re-entering e-mail messages from the Net into your database. R:WEB
does it for you on the fly, and that saves a lot of money and time,"
explains Art Miller, President and CEO of Microrim.
    David Harris, President of SBT Internet Systems, commented: "R:WEB
is ideal for companies that want an easy solution to conducting business
on the Internet--whether they want to post and update their product
catalog while processing orders at the same time, or have remote field
sales representatives who need to enter sales orders and figures
directly into their corporate database. R:WEB can reduce wide area
network costs and long distance charges. Virtually every type and size
of business can benefit by using the no-programming R:WEB to streamline
their operations on-line."
    R:WEB includes the newly released R:BASE 5.5 for Windows as a free
development tool.  R:WEB provides on-line documentation to help users
learn how to generate R:WEB-compatible forms. The price of R:WEB
(including R:BASE 5.5) is $995 per Web server. It will be available
directly from Microrim, through distributors and through various retail
outlets.
    R:WEB and R:BASE 5.5 for Windows (which is required to design the
forms) provide a time-tested, powerful fourth generation language (4GL)
with embedded SQL and all the graphical interface design tools needed to
design a truly powerful, and relatively inexpensive, Internet database
solution. With R:BASE's powerful data integrity rules, constraints and
password security, organizations using R:WEB forms have complete control
of what information an Internet user can or cannot access.
    SBT Internet Systems is a subsidiary of Software Business
Technologies, established in 1980 to develop software solutions for
businesses. SBT develops and markets Internet and Database Applications
through value added resellers and consultants. For more information
about SBT products and services, contact Rich Jenkins, Internet
Marketing Director at [phone] or e-mail at [e-mail]. SBT
headquarters is located at 1401 Los Gamos Drive, San Rafael, California
94903. SBT's web site is http://www.sbt.com.
    Microrim, founded in 1981, was among the first companies to market
databases for personal computers. Privately held until March 1995,
Microrim is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the publicly held Abacus
Software Group (ASG). ASG also owns the Edmonton-based Abacus Accounting
Systems, Inc., producer of the Abacus II accounting software. The
Microrim product line includes R:BASE 5.5 for Windows and OS/2 PM,
R:BASE 4.5++ for DOS, R:BASE LAN Pack, R:BASE SQL Engine 2.0 for
Windows, R:SCOPE, R:BASE Runtime, Westlake Imager, Zolton Graphics and
R:BASE books and journals. Microrim headquarters is located at 15395
S.E. 30th Place, Bellevue, WA 98007. Microrim's web site is
http://www.microrim.com

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REVIEWS OF THE WEEK | Interesting software/hardware you may need . . .
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Product:        Jana95 Contact for Windows95                         |
Reviewed By:    Doug Reed ([e-mail])                     |
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    Janna Contact 95 is a 'documentcentric' program designed to allow
you to manage business contacts.  Made by the upstart Canadian company
Janna Systems, this is one of the first products on the market designed
to take full advantage of all of Windows 95 new features.  Janna Contact
is a 32-bit program certified by Microsoft as fully Windows 95 and
Microsoft Office compatible, fully supporting OLE 2.0, long file names,
Explorer-type lists, right mouse button support, tabbed dialogs, and
enhanced property sheets.  Janna Contact is also designed for use over a
network, fully integrating with Microsoft's Schedule+.  In short, Janna
Contact attempts to do it all when it comes to contact management.
    Installation of Janna Contact 95 from the CD is very easy; autoplay
is supported, allowing the user to simply click on the setup button when
the CD window pops up.  Included with the software are two different
tutorials, one designed for the absolute beginner and the other for more
advanced users who may have used a contact program before.  These
tutorials are short, well done, and to the point. If I had one gripe
about the tutorials, it is the rolling of the credits when you finish
them; there is no way to skip this portion of the program.  Accompanying
the tutorials is a well done manual, which does a good job of laying out
what the user can do with Janna Contact and how it can be personalized
to the particular user. When launching Janna Contact 95, you immediately
become aware that this truly is a 32-bit program.  Because I use a
486DX250, loading and running Janna Contact was a little slow although I
don't have any comparable contact management programs to judge it by.
Janna Contact, however, does work very well with other applications
running at the same time and appears to make good use of threads.  The
interface is clean and is very much smart button-oriented. It also comes
with a fairly extensive help system that can show you how to do
something quickly and easily. So it is easy to learn and runs okay, but
what does it do? Janna is a very comprehensive contact manager.  Not
only does it keep track of contact's addresses and phone numbers, but it
allows you to associate documents and objects with specific contacts.
Objects that can be associated with contacts range from graphics files
to audio files to full motion video!
    Contact information can be extensively customized to suit your
needs.  Personalized letters or memos are easily generated and can be
either printed or faxed. I would think that the ability to tell Janna
Contact to create a personalized letter which it would then, all by
itself, take care of distribution of that letter, would be a huge plus
for business users.  Janna can also integrate your e-mail, providing an
easy way to send and receive e-mail that can be easily associated with
different contacts.  Through Janna's support of OLE 2.0 and drag and
drop, e-mailing documents and objects can be easily accomplished. In
addition, Janna keeps track of your schedule. Presentation-wise, this is
one of the nicest parts of Janna Contact. Your schedule can be shown
daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. On a network, Janna Contact
synchronizes with Microsoft's Schedule+ and allows for workgroup
scheduling of meetings and other important occasions.  One of the
coolest things about Janna Contact is the alarm system. Rather than
simply having text or audio alarms, Janna Contact allows for full
multimedia alarms.  Now you actually have a use for those multimedia
movie clips you have downloaded from the Internet!
    For the corporate business user who has a lot of clients or other
types of contacts, I think that Janna Contact 95 is a must have.  Even
for small businesses, I would think that Janna Contact could help ease
the time and contact management burdens.  I work at a university
performing research, and I can see that Janna Contact would be a
valuable asset even in academia.  Why? Because it allows you to
establish and maintain contacts with faculty from across the country,
making it easier to maintain several collaborations all at the same
time.  I give Janna Contact 95 the highest praise: a permanent place on
my hard drive!

                          Janna Systems, Inc.
                       3080 Yonge St., Suite 6060
                          Toronto, ON M4N 3N1
                             [phone]
                          http://www.janna.com

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Product:        Paperazzi by Activision                              |
Reviewed By:    Gerry Imhoff ([e-mail])                   |
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    Before you get the wrong impression, I really like Activision s
recent release, "Paparazzi!  Tales of Tinseltown".  It was certainly a
case of "good things are worth waiting for".  But since I have to give
my editor a reason why I was 2 days late with this review:
    Through no fault of the installation program, I had quite a time
getting Paparazzi! up and running.  Partly my fault, partly the price we
pay for being in a very fast-moving industry.  From the "My Fault"
department:  I ignored the fact that the system requirements were
Windows 3.1, Win95, or something they referred to as a "Macintosh" (I m
kidding, please, no letters from you Mac aficionados).  Since I was
already late for dinner and my PC was booted to Windows NT Workstation,
I figured I d give it a shot anyway. (For those of you not paying
attention, NT is not listed as a supported environment).  After a 5-10
minute installation that went fine, I tried to fire up the game.  Crash
city.  It even corrupted an NT system file called CTL3DV2.DLL that
toasted my MS Office toolbar to the point I had to reinstall it.  But
like I said, my fault.
    After booting to Win95, I repeated the installation.  Again, no
apparent problems, although I do have one nit:  After installing the
program from the CD, you have to go into the QTW directory and execute
Quick Time for Windows  setup program as well.  It would have been nice
if the Paparazzi! setup triggered the QTW setup as well.  Anyway,
Paparazzi! and the latest version of QTW are now installed.  Again, I
fire up the game.  Everything looks cool for the moment.  Paparazzi!
uses the on-screen metaphor of a hand-held "Palminator" as your window
into the game.  The Palminator is a multi-function device that allows
you to watch TV, check your video messages, move around the city, and
more.  I select Channel 1 on the TV and wait in anticipation.  And wait.
And wait.  Nothing.  So I ask to see my messages and again wait in
anticipation.  And wait.  And (you get the idea). This is getting
personal.  I REALLY want to play this game.
    After about a half hour of getting nowhere, I picked up the manual
(I HATE it when that happens!) to check for troubleshooting tips.
Imagine that. Page 6.  "Problem:  My QuickTime movies just show a line
or are not appearing.  Solution:  You might not have the latest driver
for your video card...".  Not accepting defeat and now being VERY late
for dinner, I head home.  Leftover lasagna and 2 kids and a wife missing
daddy.  Played with the kids, read the bedtime stories, wife settled
into watching the tube. Snuck downstairs to the home PC.  Installed
Paparazzi! for the 3rd time (Win95 again) and viola!
    Now for the good stuff.  Paparazzi! is different than anything
you've played before.  You interact with the video on screen while it s
playing.  There are over two hours of live footage in the game, and a
cast of over 60 actors and actresses.  You select one of six personas to
guide you through your 14-day journey through Tinseltown.  Your goal is
to capture 24 celeb s photos and complete the game without going broke
or getting booted out of town.  The personas range from total sleezebags
to folks of fairly high integrity, which is key, as your admittance to
various establishments and your payoff for various photos often depends
on your persona.
    To locate your subjects, Paparazzi! must search through clues found
on TV, messages left on your Palminator, publications like The
Entertainer (weekly) and Teen Heat, and more clues throughout town.  To
make it more interesting, clues are accessible only at specific times on
certain days.  Quite a challenge.  Your travels take you to Cheevers
Cameras; Grand Habernet Hotel, the preferred abode of the stars;
Tinseltown Municipal Court (where you re sure to catch some excited
celebrities!); and various clubs, bars, parks, stores, and similar
locales.  Your subjects include such luminaries as tennis player Andre
McConnor, Rusk Limburger, pop singer The Virgin Mary, former first lady
Jackie Rae Gunn, TV talk show host Okra Salad Raffle, and other obvious
and not-so-obvious take-offs of our favorite media icons. Your
observation skills are of paramount importance; make sure you have
enough cash to hang out at the hot spots (or "negotiate" your way in);
don t hesitate to buy some folks a drink if you need a tip (but watch
out for bum advice from the competition); conserve your film; and watch
out for those celebrity lookalikes.  And of course, be prepared the
swingin  swill who prefer their picture NOT be taken.  All in all, a
very enjoyable and engrossing game.  Kind of your "King s Quest" or
"Leisure Suit Larry" series on major steroids.  Fun and recommended.
    Paparazzi! was developed by independent software creator Museworthy,
Inc., and acquired/licensed by Activision.  Museworthy has more stuff
under development, also to be marketed by Activision.

                               Activision
                  11601 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1000
                         Los Angeles, CA  90025
                     310-473-9200, fax [phone]
                       http://www.activision.com

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WEBSITES OF THE WEEK! | This section is devoted to cool WebSites . . .
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ASoftware Publisher's Association|
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    WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- In swift bipartisan fashion, the
Senate today completed the congressional override of the president's
scurrilous veto of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  The
entire software publishing industry is overjoyed with the courage of the
many Senate Democrats who broke ranks with the president on this
important piece of legislation.
    The Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 will benefit high
technology companies and their investors, since it allows a freer flow
of timely important information about expected future corporate
performance.  According to Ken Wasch, SPA president, "This new law goes
a long way to ridding the high-tech competitive landscape of the blight
of frivolous class action securities lawsuits."
    Software companies are a particular target of these types of
lawsuits. A survey of publicly traded software companies showed more
than half of them have been hit with a class action securities fraud
suit.  Wasch said, "For years, these frivolous suits have been draining
millions of dollars of precious capital from our industry.  Finally,
Congress has shone some light on this dark side of our legal system."
    The software industry is especially pleased Congress included a
strong safe harbor for forward-looking statements.  Now, executives can
make predictions about future corporate performance without fear of
subjecting themselves and their companies to expensive class action
litigation costing hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend and eating
up countless hours of management time.
    The Software Publishers Association is the principal trade
association of the desktop software industry, representing the leading
publishers as well as many start-up firms in the business, consumer and
education markets.  Its 1,200 members account for 90 percent of the
sales of the U.S. packaged software industry.  SPA is an international
organization with offices both in the United States and Europe.  SPA
press releases are available through CompuServe (GO:SPAFORUM), on SPA's
Web site at http://www.spa.org or through Fax-on-Demand at
800-637-6823.

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Cash Online . . . |
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    MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Newsbytes News Network, a
comprehensive source of daily telecom, computer, and interactive
services news since 1983, and First Virtual Holdings Inc., are offering
free one-month trial subscriptions to Newsbytes' E-Mail Subscription
Service to new First Virtual account holders.
    Internet users who create a new account on First Virtual's Internet
secure transaction system from the company's Web site at
http://www.fv.com can choose a free one month gift subscription to
Newsbytes News Network's award-winning newswire. The subscription
service offers the complete text of Newsbytes' newswire delivered
directly to a subscribers' Internet mailbox each business day.
    New account holders will receive twenty-four free issues under the
offer. FV account holders who wish to continue receiving Newsbytes at
the end of the free gift period can make their payment securely over the
Internet using the First Virtual transaction system.
    Pierre-R. Wolff, First Virtual's director of marketing, emphasizes
the security of the First Virtual Internet payment system: "Many of the
solutions proposed for processing credit cards over the Net have been
breached, and so reliability can only be counted on from a system such
as First Virtual's."
    First Virtual reports tremendous growth since it first deployed its
Internet payment system in October 1994. Wolff told Newsbytes, "First
Virtual's consumer base has grown to over 70,000 consumers and continues
to grow at approximately 10 to 12% compounded weekly." He expects that
growth to continue: "First Virtual is in the process of working with
some large institutions in order to provide their consumer bases with
virtualPINs (FV accounts) which could bring the number of consumers much
higher in a sh  period of time."
    In addition to utilizing First Virtual's Internet payment system to
conduct commerce securely over the Internet, Newsbytes uses First
Virtual's InfoHaus service to distribute its newswire by e-mail. First
Virtual calls the InfoHaus "the first-ever public-access information
mall." Darren New, director of custom software development at FV and
author of the InfoHaus software, claims the InfoHaus mailing list
software used by Newsbytes is "the only for-fee mailing list manager in
the world. People can subsc ribe, unsubscribe, pay, renew, get back
issues, and change their addresses, all without having to contact the
information provider."
    Newsbytes, a pioneering electronic publication offering both text
and images, has provided daily coverage of the dynamic and complex
computer and telecommunications industries since 1983. More than 150
media outlets, including print publications, online services, and
database companies, are licensed to publish Newsbytes wire material. The
wire service reports at least stories each day, filed by 19 staff
correspondents worldwide. All reporting is first-hand, original, and
objective. News is gathered from independent sources, trade shows, and
interviews with top industry professionals.
    Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., in the United States, Newsbytes
News Network has bureaus in San Francisco, Denver, Washington DC,
Boston, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, Beijing,
Manila, and New Delhi.

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COOL FTP FILE OF THE WEEK | You may need this file . . .
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    CENVI FOR OS/2 VERSION 1.009 <ASP>
C-interpreter;bach/rexx-enhancer;Automator- CEnvi gives the OS/2
professional a complete C-like environment, including the standard
library and kernel/DLL calls, in an easy-to- use form and all in one
150K executable. Now 'C' is as easy to use as a batch file, and can even
mix with batch or REXX. Programming NOMBAS

       You can find this as CENVI2.ZIP on the following FTP site:

                ftp.crl.com/users/su/supportu/cenvi2.zip

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INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK | Interesting people you should know about . . .
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Internet Web Rambler,           |
Raymond Hines, ([e-mail])|
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    Greetings, readers. I'm Raymond Hines III, but better known as Ray
or "Solari" on the net.  I'm a Florida native, having been born in
Daytona Beach on October 21, 1967.  I currently reside in Sarasota,
Florida and plan on getting hitched (married!) this coming May 18th to
my fiance of 8 years!  As for education, I attended several colleges,
such as New College, the University of Florida, and a few community
colleges to round things out.
    I've recently started my own company, called, "DreamStates
Digi-Publishing" that publishes electronic magazines for bulletin board
systems, especially those with graphical interfaces.  I'm also getting
into the Internet Access/Webmaster business in a few months.
    I guess I consider myself a "Net Vet" since I've been on the
Internet since 1983, using a lovely Commodore 64 at the time as well as
the school's computer printer-terminals (no CRTs!).  Now, I sport a
Pentium and an even lovelier Amiga computer to keep on computing. It's
amazing how much the face of the Internet has changed, especially with
the encroaching commercialism.  It's somewhat sad to see this, but then
again, it's to be expected with any "hot" medium, and it could even
benefit us further in the form of free access to the Internet, etc.
    As for my position here as the officially designated "Web Rambler,"
I'll be rambling around the net looking for web sites to review as well
as checking out software that's made for use with the Internet. If
you've got any particularly interesting web sites for me to look at, or
have some software you'd like me to review that's for the Internet, do
email me at [e-mail].
    I'm looking forward to writing for COMPUNOTES and am very honored to
be a part of it, thanks to Patrick Grote.

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