World: r3wp

I've never really used it myself... but I"m there.  Sorry I can't 
be of more help.

I have one too but rarly use it.

Anyone ever heard of using lemon JOY brand dishwashing liquid to 
kill mosquitioes?  My family in Tennessee says you just put a few 
drops in some water on a dishplate and watch the mosquites get caught 
in it and die.

All these foreclosures are causing mosquito problems ... apparently 
large swimming pools are just being abandoned without being emptied. 
 With no time to deal with the problem, health authorities are just 
chucking in mosquito eating gold fish into the pools as an interim 
measure.

oil is how they used to kill mosquitos in Africa

Paul, I heard that combination is also great for earwigs.

Hello, what is your experience with various trasnporters - DHL, Fedex, 
UPS, when you need to get something from China? :-) Which is cheapest?

I would brown tail (UPS) it if I were you.

Don't know if they are cheapest but if something gets lost then that 
isn't very cheap.

FedEx, I know UPS guys who only use FedEx when they send a package 
!

Hey Brock and Chris, I added a request to add you to my network on 
linked-in.  Just wanted to drop you guys a note and let you know 
I found you guys there.  Any other of our REBOL brothers on linked-in?

Yeksoon was there.  Don't know if he still is.  Oh, and I accepted 
your invitation.

Yeah I saw that.  Thanks Brock.

The Phoenix probe on Mars has returned the first good evidence it 
is sitting on  water ice  
and not salt or some other bright material.  

Water ice is the only candidate to sublimate away over a few days.


http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/phoenix/collection_16/dodo_020_024.gif

I have never seen ice under sand before.  You would think it was 
ice that close to the surface that it couldn't just easily spread 
the soil as if it was baby powder.  You would think it would at least 
have some viscosity.

I just don't buy it that it is ice.  If it were ice then I think 
we should see ice in the deepest part of the dig which would be near 
the center of the excavated hole not near the tip which would be 
closer to the surface.

if it isn't ice, why does it slowly disappear over the course of 
4 days when exposed to sunlight?

So your response is that it ACTs like ICE and my response is that 
is doesn't ACT like ICE.  See the predicament?

I grew up in northern Maine and I can assure you ice under a thin 
coaiting of topsoil, sand , forest litter  or whatever was an anual 
occurance.  So I can say in some respect (say existance)  it does 
act like water ice on Earth. What evidence would you offer that it 
does not act like ice on Mars?

Well, NASA says it acts like ice. I would assume they know what they're 
doing (most of the time). Also it may be the best way to detect ice, 
simply dig a hole and wait for the pictures to change. They only 
have 8 one-use-only sample ovens and have already used one, so possibly 
this is the best way to decide on what to do next.

if ice formed on the top, and then it got covered ... well, seems 
fairly good explanation/

Tomc - there is no component found on any other planet or in space 
that is not found also on earth to this point according to science. 
 In other words we haven't found a material that is made up of elements 
that are "foreign" to our knowledge.  So whatever the mars surfaces 
is composed of we should be able to duplicate the event here.   I'm 
not going to dispute your findings in Maine, and I'm not going to 
dispute that their may be water indeed on Mars.  I just don't think 
these pictures are evidence of it though.

Don't know why, but all this reminds me of book I own - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_on_Mars

But I was always a Philip Jose Farmer fan

I only like to read non-fiction.

You're kidding me!

Why would I do that?

Because you talk all the time about one of the best fiction sellers 
of all time.

If your assuming that I talk about the Bible all the time then you 
would be WRONG so tell me what best fiction seller of all time are 
you alluding to?

Non-fiction doesn't always mean accurate.

Never said that but I believe that God's Word is without error.

It must be reassuring to have absolutes in the world you inhabit.

(web public channel)

No problem here Henrik, and yes Graham I see His Word as an absolute.

Paul, public channels are publicized by REBOL Technologies, not by 
a random third party. :-) That's why I mentioned it.

I understand Henrik.

anyone working on phonetic search algorithms for REBOL?

There are some soundex implementations for REBOL.

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=soundex.r
And simetrics may be of interest:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/documentation.r?script=simetrics.r

I don't know much about it, but would there normally be different 
implementations for different languages?

You mean soundex?

I think so -- because it's based on how different letters sound; 
and on how letters combine to make sounds. That various by language.

I adapted the REBOL soundex for searches in Romaized Pali (a western 
rendition of an ancient indian language) some years ago. I forget 
the changes I made (they were made by trial and error until we got 
a good set of results. But I remember that H could not longer be 
thrown away as it is in the standard English Soundex algorithm).

I looked at a Soundex algorithm in wikipedia. it seems simpler than 
I thought.

I thought I'd show what I'm working intensely with right now (needed 
a break anyway):

http://rebol.hmkdesign.dk/files/db-console.png


Sorry, it's in Danish. It's the adminstration console for my own 
database engine (very, very different from Pauls engine, so no competiton), 
all powered by VID, Rugby, LIST-VIEW and a home-made database engine 
as well as my own build system. The screenshot is from a production 
system (never mind the word "development" in the window title, we'll 
just ignore that... :-)). The system is 101.2% REBOL based. Nothing 
else but REBOL/View 2.7.6 is used.

The administration program is one of currently 4 programs made for 
the db engine, the other being a statistics program, the third a 
heavily dialected and customizable GUI frontend for the db and the 
fourth is a more rigid and flashy front end for easy readability 
(very much thanks to VID). What's visible in the console drop down 
sheet itself is the result of some db queries, here doing some searching, 
and altering of db records. You talk to the db with a simple dialect. 
I wouldn't call it very fast or anything, but it definitely gets 
the job done and even complicated queries are usually 1-2 lines. 
For what you see in that picture, there is around 200 kb of code. 
Well, that's just what I wanted to say. :-)

forgot to mention that the build system is also partly powered by 
Cheyenne. :-)

Nice looking gui as usual, Henrik.

Nasa Chief apparently against freedom of opinion and speech http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/23/fossilfuels.climatechange

Looks very nice Henrik!

Is it essential to use muted color schemes to get a decent looking 
GUI ??

either that or small localized areas of colors. that's how I prefer 
it.

gc: I find spacing is most important, so long as your colour scheme 
isn't too painful...

ahh... what's painful??