Every Saturday morning I clean the house and listen to podcasts on my iPod. My favourite is Hanselminutes. My second favourite is The Word Nerds, which doesn't help me grow as a developer like Hanselminutes, though it does help grow my already keen sense of grammatical fascism. Hanselminutes is hosted by Carl Franklin and Scott Hanselman, an unflappable web developer and technologist* who blogs and speaks frequently about utilities and tools and ASP.NET and Windows, with much practical advice. I learn a lot about new technologies from his weekly show, without having to read dull dull whitepapers. Scott likes his podcast tag line to be "the show that doesn't waste your time" and to date, it never has. http://www.hanselminutes.com * I don't know what a technologist is either, but it sounds cool.

We have just completed our first 30 minute free consultation with Yanming Fei, Librarian at the Alberta Securities Commission in Calgary. In the brief Webex and phone session we were able to show Yanming how to determine which forms were being used to display data in her web-based catalogue textbase and then how to modify several lines in the full display form. Now she can do any new modifications herself.

This offer was extended to our clients in our 2006 Christmas mail out. We have several other clients lining up to take advantage of this and to get the most out of their Inmagic software. We encourage others to do the same. Please contact us via email info@andornot.com or phone 1-866-266-2525 local 1 or 604-269-2525 to arrange a mutually convenient time. This offer expires January 31, 2007.

Most of the Andornot staff will be taking time off over the holiday season.

Kathy and Denise will be working only part time Dec 27th to 29th.

Peter will be on vacation from Dec 22nd to Jan 2nd.

Rex is currently on vacation enjoying himself way too much in Costa Rica and missing all the wind storms and power outages in Vancouver. He will also be back Jan 2nd.

Ted will be away over the holidays but checking in for messages and emails.

Pat is also taking time off and her next day will be January 4th.

Happy holidays!

The latest @Inmagic newsletter is now available from the Inmagic website.

This includes details about DB/TextWorks v10 and WebPublisher PRO v10 which will be released later this month. Content Server v10 is scheduled for release in February 2007 .

All Inmagic products are being tested in preparation for supporting Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system.

See the newsletter for more information on these and other news items.

(December 1, 2006) The Canadian Public Health Association is pleased to announce the launch of the CONNECT website (www.hivinfovih.ca). The bilingual site can be used to search the collections of the five largest HIV/AIDS libraries in Canada. This represents a combined collection of over 67 000 books, videos, DVDs, journal articles, and other resources on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and legal/ethical issues, among many other topics.

CONNECT is a Canadian partnership between five community-based HIV/AIDS organizations:
- AIDS Committee of Toronto
- AIDS Vancouver
- Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
- Canadian HIV/AIDS Information Centre
- Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network

Production of the website was made possible by a financial contribution from the Public Health Agency of Canada. Database development and hosting services are by Andornot Consulting Inc. and the database is build with TextWorks and WebPublisher PRO software from Inmagic, Inc.