26) It's Cool
AskRecy Homepage It's Cool Well, the World Series is over, basketball season hasn't started, and the Oilers don't live here anymore. On the plus side, it's Fall, and there's a few weeks of very nice weather between the hot and the cold - if you get up off your couch and go outside. Enjoy the nip in the air while the sun is still shining bright. Take a walk or go to the park -http://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask1026.htm
27) Future Thinking
AskRecy Homepage Future Thinking When I was a kid, I wondered what life would be like in the year 2000. It seemed like it was an awfully long way away - it seemed like I'd be an old man by then (surprise - I'm not!). We saw movies and television shows about what the future would be like, and places like Disneyland and the World's Fair would have home of the and on display. Ofhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask1019.htm
28) Honors and Responsibilities
AskRecy Homepage Honors Responsibilities - That's not a phrase you hear very much anymore. Do you know what it means? It originally meant that noblemen, the lords of the land, had an obligation to the commoners. That was how society was run in ancient times, and a nobleman who knew his obligations would see to it that the poor and the sick in his domain were taken care of, and that the peasants who workedhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask1013.htm
29) Do you know ..NULL
AskRecy Homepage Do you know..NULL Do you know that one of the best ways to protect yourself from a computer virus is simply to pop the diskette out of the diskette drive when you're through using it? This won't protect you from all viruses - you should have some good anti-virus software on your system - but it does protect you from a common, hard-to-get-rid-of virus that infects your system when you boot up yourhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask1005a.htm
30) Computer Fear
AskRecy Homepage Computer Fear One of the biggest user issues we have had to deal with in doing business from day to day is computer fear. Lots of people are convinced that if they strike a key without permission, the computer will blow up, or all the data will be deleted, and the boss will fire them for destroying the whole computer system. At one time, it may have been true that people needed ahttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask1005.htm
31) Grand Prix of Houston
AskRecy Homepage Grand Prix of Houston If you think nothing exciting ever happens around here, you need to head downtown October 2nd - 4th and see Indy cars tearing up the street to qualify for the Texaco Grand Prix of Houston. The big names in racing will be there, and ABC and ESPN will be broadcasting this world-class racing event to the world. The George R. Brown convention center is the base of the course,http://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0928.htm
32) Having a Cause ...
AskRecy Homepage Having a Cause... I notice that the Miss America Pageant now has every contestant adopt a cause that she's interested in promoting. Plenty of the young ladies already seemed to be involved in different causes anyway; a surprising number of ordinary people are. That's a pretty good idea for everyone, to find something you're interested in and care about, to devote some time and energy to. It doesn't have to be the mosthttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0921.htm
33) R-E-S-P-E-C-T
AskRecy Homepage This week I am handing over the column to my webmaster, Aussie Meyer , to speak her piece - AskRecy R-E-S-P-E-C-T I watched the fireworks of Sky Power II from a friend's porch this weekend, and listened to the simulcast on the radio. Did you notice the selection of music, how it went with the fireworks, how each one had some special meaning? I guess I noticed it first when the red, whitehttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0914.htm
34) Being your own Boss
AskRecy Homepage Being your own Boss I'm not the only person who left a successful corporate career early to be his own boss. There was (and continues to be) a whole movement of executives and professionals who strike out on their own, wanting to make their own decisions and see if they have the right stuff to make it. The result of this trend was that corporate minds started to think about can we keephttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0908.htm
35) Please ... ask stupid questions
AskRecy Homepage Please ... ask stupid questions! I read a piece in the Houston Business Journal last week about a certain local resort and conference center that planned a large meeting for 600 Indians. They arranged a Southwestern decor with cowhides and skulls and so on, to fit the gathering. When the party started to arrive, they realized their mistake, as the guests were 600 Hindu gentlemen from India, who consider the cow sacred. Thishttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0831.htm
36) Year 2000 Commonsense Solutions
AskRecy Homepage Year 2000 Commonsense Solutions You'll hear a lot of hysteria about the upcoming Year 2000 crisis, with people talking about the airlines, the government, and the banks becoming paralyzed by the problem. Realistically, there will probably be problems in all those fields and many more besides, but we'll make it through without major disasters. Society will not come crashing down around our ears - at least I hope not! As always, the besthttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0816.htm
37) What you see isn't always what you get
AskRecy Homepage What you see isn't always what you get One of the challenges we face, both in developing software and in developing websites, is trying to test the product as a real user would. When we test software, we often take it around the office from one PC to another to install and run it under different conditions. We try to delete or rename existing libraries that might affect the installation, because we cannothttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0810.htm
38) Changing Ways
AskRecy Homepage Changing Ways The Houston Business Journal reports that Kroger is testing a new checkout system that will allow the customers to scan their own groceries - and virtually check themselves out. This might be a good idea, it's hard to say until you try it. It's being tested at the Kroger store at Kuykendahl Louetta, in the 16 items or less lane, if you want to check it out for yourself. When youhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0803.htm
39) How to Take a Vacation Without Leaving Town
AskRecy Homepage How to Take a Vacation Without Leaving Town Fellow Houstonians, do you need a vacationNULL Is your workaday life getting boring and staleNULL Well, let AskRecy treat you to a vacation ... first you have to close your eyes and pretend - no, don't pretend that you're going far away! Pretend that you've never been to Houston before. Let's say that you're just in town for the weekend - now, where would youhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0727.htm
40) Back to the Basics
AskRecy Homepage Back to the Basics Have you ever watched a really entertaining commercial, the kind that must have cost hundreds of thousands to produce, and then realized you didn't know what product it was a commercial for? A lot of the time people put such an effort into making their promotions or websites slick and professional, that they forget what they were aiming to do in the first place. So, I try, during everyhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0713.htm
41) Are you ready for Windows 98NULL
AskRecy Homepage Are you ready for Windows 98NULL Well, Windows 98 is out and inquiring minds want to know whether to rush out and buy it. Here's the scoop. First, unlike the Windows 95 debut, there's no big rush. You will not need to update immediately in order to run current software and stay up to date. When you are ready to do your next software or hardware upgrade, though, you'll probably want to includehttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0706.htm
42) The business of business
AskRecy Homepage The business of business When I was in high school college, I never thought I'd be a computer programmer! I never would have guessed what an interesting field it could be. For example, I've never worked in the medical field, but I've helped to develop a new medical application that will help doctors and other medical professionals treat wounds that won't heal. Our software helps to track the progress of the healing process,http://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0629.htm
43) 100 Homes in One Week
AskRecy Homepage 100 Homes in One Week! Askrecy wishes to salute Habitat for Humanity and the Jimmy Carter Work Project for their amazing job of building 100 homes in one week right here in Houston. 6,000 volunteers took part, working in 100 degree weather, with the common goal of putting families who could not otherwise afford it into their own homes. This organization helps make the American Dream a possibility for everyone. One reason whyhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0622.htm
44) Future Thinking
AskRecy Homepage Future Thinking There's no question that we need to plan for the future, in our personal lives, in our businesses, and as a community, too. A generation of baby-boomers is creeping up on retirement age, and very few of us have the financial and personal planning we need! The business world and the computer/data processing industry are looking at a crisis of obsolete and malfunctioning programs when the clock ticks over into thehttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0616.htm
45) Young Black male fights negative stereotype
AskRecy Homepage Young Black male fights negative stereotype Meet Tim Day: a slender 22-year old young Black man with a vision. He is tired of the typical stereotype of African-American males. He feels that folk are getting rolled and it's time to make a Black person aware (that he should have) a powerful image of Day is responsible for forming the group, Consistent Exposure to Education. He is resourceful enough to get Galveston's Mayor Rogerhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0331.htm
46) Town Hall Meeting in Galveston addresses public transportation
AskRecy Homepage Town Hall Meeting in Galveston addresses public transportation Representatives of the Galveston Public Transportation Task Force held a town meeting on March 24, at Kempner Park in the Garten Verein, located at 2704 Avenue O. The task force had three reasons for the public forum; to explain to the bus riders what the group has been doing for the last five months to improve the public transportation service; to obtain community in-put andhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0324.htm
47) School Vouchers - Cashing in on public schools
AskRecy Homepage School Vouchers Cashing in on public schools School Vouchers and politics. Whose side are you onNULL Is it a Republican or a Democratic issueNULL Is it bi-partisanshipNULL Is it truly about educating childrenNULL The discussion of vouchers is an emotional one for some people and both sides argue that it's an issue of fairness. A poll conducted by the University of Texas's Office of Survey Research shows that 62 percent of Texans wouldhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0317.htm
48) Let us all get involved
AskRecy Homepage Let us all get involved Last June, President Clinton launched what he called a national dialogue on race relations. He stated that the new initiative was needed to lessen racial tensions. The President appointed an advisory board that has spent the last 11 months holding town meetings as part of their effort to reach that goal. On April 14, 1998, President Clinton held a town-hall meeting in Houston that focused on race andhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0210.htm
49) Community Policing - What it means to Black communities
AskRecy Homepage Community Policing What it means to Black communities I was attending a meeting held at the Galveston City Council's conference room a couple of weeks ago and noticed fourteen goals hanging on the wall. It was obviously the result of either the City Council's retreat or strategic planning session. Community Policing was one of the goals. It caught my attention because two days prior, the Race Relations Committee met at Galveston College tohttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0203.htm
50) Do the Right Thing
AskRecy Homepage Do the Right Thing If you follow the news, you already know that some major cities haven't exactly been playing by the rules. Salt Lake City got their Olympics with a little money under the table. It's been revealed that Philadelphia has been misreporting its crime statistics for years - and won acclaim for its low crime rate. Probably the people who first made the decision to bend the rules thought that ithttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0201.htm
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