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Yesterday, I mostly spent quite a large chunk of the day searching for a nice printer-monitering thingamy for school. Now all I need to do is work out what the easiest way to collate the reports from all the individual clients is (thanks for the link to where I eventually found what I was after, marble!).

In a moment (i.e. after I've rebooted because this poor machine appears to have been leaking memory again) I'll post some more info on what the program outputs, and what I need, and how I plan to do it, and what I did today...

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Right, now I can open stuff, I can see what those abbreviations were again :)

Anyone have any idea what 'ODBC' is and how I'd go about handling it? (or 'ADO', but I haven't heard of that before.) I think what I want to do atm is basically feed an Access table with the data being offered, 'cos it's fairly easy to make a nice query interface with Access. (I can get the data out into a text file, tab-seperated fields and double-newline-seperated records, but that doesn't look as friendly for what I want now.)

As for this morning, that'll have to wait until after lunch...

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Today.

Got up fairly early for a Saturday (about 8:30am or so), toasted myself some Organic Hot Cross Buns (which taste better because they're made better, not as any result of being 'organic'), and after sounding my parents out on what I was going to suddenly realise I had to do for the day, I started with some essential spodding, mixed with a little LJ'ing.

After a while, though, I noticed the sunlight streaming through the windows, and decided to go for a little walk. Walking is good. Especially when the brilliant sunshine is making everything sparkle, the sky is clear and blue, and it's still cold enough to need a jacket. Clear, dry and fresh = good. Saw a daffodil - the petals were still folded but they were out of the case, bright yellow in the sunlight.

In the afternoon (after some obligitary LJ'ing, spodding, Neopets playing etc), we went to fix the computer of someone-from-church. They were complaining that their email wasn't working properly. It turns out that somehow they'd managed to delete their dial-up connection... They also didn't know their password, but a call to Freeserve's support line sorted that out, and then it was just a matter of putting the freeserve CD back in and letting it sort everything out. Weird tho - I wonder why (or how, if it was accidental) they deleted it in the first place?

Came home by way of Tescos, returning with a healthy clutch from the Chocolate Chicken - i.e. several Creme Eggs. Happily ate one, then remembered I oughta have been having fruit and a drink, so had some grapes too. Then back to the computer :). Had to do some ironing too. I have this irrational hatred of putting the ironing board away, which is annoying, but eventually I just did it. (It's not the board, it's the iron. I don't like emptying it out, because I'm convinced I ruined the last one by spilling water on the cord (which again has material, not plastic, over it - why do irons do this?) or putting it back on the floor, because I think it's going to set the wall/carpet on fire.)

And now I believe I probably have some research on ODBC to do, or at least on Access form/report/query design....