G'afternoon Nancy,   
      
   And that's from Whangarei in our Winterless North;  I'm in a motel while   
   the Management indulges in a Country Scottish Dancing School...  well away   
   fronm the dreaded quaky Christchurch.   
       
   -> Yes, that last is getting on our news again...  will it never stop?    
   -> Perhaps it really is getting to be the end of the world...?  ;0   
      
   Don't know about the End;  it's certainly frustrating the Christchurchians   
   who'd like to be able to re-build and settle down.   
       
   -> No descendants of the elderly aunt still at the Key Street Kent address?   
      
   Not even a street number or location on Key Street !   
      
   -> Or nearby?  No jotted notes that would indicate why your father decided   
   -> to pay her a visit?  But life is full of such tantalizing tidbits...   
      
   He'd passed on before I heard of the incident from the other family !   
      
   ->  MM> I've got google set as a text-only tool to speed things up and   
   avoid   
   ->  MM> all the dazzle-rah-rah stuff,  and run alerts on all my main   
   interests   
   ->  MM> to keep me up to date usefully....   
   ->    
   -> Hmm...  Guess I don't even have a clue how to start going about any of   
   -> that...  Does something like that work when one doesn't keep an always   
   -> open connection to the internet?  Or usually has the computer turned off   
   -> except for when it is actually in active use?  (Yeah, I know... I'm   
   -> Luddite material, for sure... )   
      
   That's sensible, not Luddite;  this machine gets switched on when I get a   
   spare moment,  while my ISP accumulates my messagery which downloads when I   
   fire up Firefox,  my email programme.   
      
   It runs on a plain-text setting,  which speeds up the process and avoids   
   all the clever-clogs pictures and HTML screens.   
      
   The result is just like Doc's Place screens.   
      
   You should be able to trial it all out at your local library without having   
   to install and setup on your own computer - log into gmail (google's email   
   service) and if you like what you get,  you can keep going from any   
   internet-active computer anywhere....   
      
   I'm off now - this weekend is our Labour Day celebration,  and the   
   weather's balmy outside  -  catch you later   :-)   
      
   Miles   
      
      
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