Thanks for the kind words. Learning isn't finished with me yet, I hope. A board like this poses more questions than it answers, but its a nice stepping off point to find out more about stuff that comes up. Just one of the things that keeps me, and the library, busy.

Congratulations on having the dedication to post for 300 consecutive days. Keep up the Great Work. Your buddy, Warren {:-)

Welcome aboard buddy, have a nice week

Very good first year work, keep it up................ ......Lets be buddies

Noted your hobby. I use Mac Photoshop Essentials 11, mostly for cropping and resizing.

In college, I used to debug COBOL runtime core dumps because I knew assembly language and COBOL is pretty much self-documenting. (Everything you would want to use as a variable name is a reserved word.) I later on played with COBOL as a diversion, but most of my programming was Ada (International Space Station), C (ISS), and FORTRAN (flight simulation).

>At the same time, I’m skeptical of the accounting – the 8 cents on every dollar was from a report made by Exxon.< Well, have you never heard of Sarbanes-Oxley? The CEO and CFO of a publicly held company have to certify the results reported to the SEC under penalty of perjury.

>Just heard Exxon profits were $40 billion...< Another way to out it: eight cents on every dollar of sales. Johnson & Johnson makes fourteen cents on every dollar of sales. Coca-Cola makes eighteen cents on every dollar of sales. Apple makes twenty-six cents on every dollar of sales. And people ding on Exxon. Go figure.

Thanks. Your record of posting is very impressive being almost perfect from day #1. I was quite sporadic back in the beginning. Be slow and steady and it will become a daily habit. If you miss a day due to no fault of your own, like power or internet failure or even hospitalization, keep posting and send a "Member Message" to GB Mgmt. and they will restore your missed day to keep your string going. Your buddy, Warren :D)

care to be buddies