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Prof, you take an active part in working on the bots and on any problems that may arise, not to mention running the whole thing yourself. it makes a difference.

The Professor wrote: "jawaldron- You wouldn't happen to know C++ and PHP, would you? "

Sorry Prof, I kind of got pigeonholed over the years into database design. I'm currently designing medical systems for 23 Organ and Tissue Procurement Organizations across the USA. (Keeps me very busy).

You know the route... Assembler -> C (before the ++) -> R:Base -> dBase -> foxBase -> FoxPro - MS Visual FoxPro (oop programming).

I am a member of the IT staff so I have a fair amount of technical savvy but as I said... I'm somewhat of a specialist.

Will probably be getting into PHP, SQL Server / Oracle, and PDA systems in the next year or so as we lean more heavily on the internet.

I'm also a digital graphics artist.

So I can't help you that way, but I am a dabbler. I'll even do some grunt work if it helps to further the cause.

Also since I really enjoy figuring out how things work, if you want to point me in a direction where I might obtain some more knowledge in this area, who knows, I might "later" be able to help you too. You know?

John Allen Waldron
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania USA

RueBot, I just had a nice first chat with Siseneg. Siseneg is very polite and quite a nice bot. We had a good chat, though if your transcripts are like mine, nothing is showing up. I wonder if the Prof will be able to dredge them up from the black hole they seemed to have fallen into?

Anyway... Siseneg was fun! I also read what that poor woman went through over at a-i.com. Reading the entries was a hard thing to do knowing that she eventually lost out a lot of hours/days/weeks/months of work. While there I noticed that there are still a lot of recent questions that seem to go ignored.

You are right. I'm making my home here.

Though Polaris still did sound kind of interesting...

John Allen Waldron
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania USA

you're making me blush...

Bots don't blush!

but they can occasionaly tweak their RGB values...

... or rust.

I think Pol just turns a deeper shade of puce.
Thanks Jwaldren for chatting with polaris. They do get a better 'workout' as you say when chatting with humans. It helps to formulate more and better language for them on this side of the box. It is good to see so many wonderfully talented people here - and welcome to you as one of them. I share your interest in graphics- at www.athyrius.com Thanks again for the chat with Pol.

ps... as Polaris says "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
lol

hahaha

Athyrius, You are welcome! I had fun chatting with Polaris and will do so again soon to give you some more "ammunition". I'm a good role player as well so if anyone wants me to interact with your bot "as a particular type" of person let me know.

Thanks for the warm welcome Athyrius!

John Allen Waldron
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania USA

Also Athyrius... I did indeed visit your site. Very nice! I then went out to your gallery of work where you have around 30 some images? Very nice. I left you some comments there!

John Allen Waldron
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania USA