Well, another day has passed and I'm writing in my blog. That's two days in a row. Good start.

I wrote yesterday about trying to learn to use the Eclipse IDE to, once again, learn java, the programming language. As usual, there was a nightmare involved in setting a path variable so the operation environment would know where something it needs is hiding. I finally figured out how to make it work. I gooogled "eclipse swt tutorial" (parentheses not used) and got a tutorial from some university in Manitoba that went into some detail on how to get around the problem that would certainly be encountered. Basically it all stems from the heavy Unix influence of all this stuff. I don't know if I could have ever gotten that variable laden string thing to work but I got it to work by pasting in the path to the folder needed. The trick, that was revealed in the Manitoba tutorial is that any space in the path has to be put in quotes. So (C:\Program Files\blah) has to be (C:\Program" "Files\blah). I think it was deliberate attempt to frustrate Windows users who would certainly put the program in a place that by default had a space in the name.

On another note, I got an email from someone in Germany interested in purchasing a reactor from my company. I don't know much about the how's of international sales so I called my local SBTDC office to schedule some time to figure out if there are any gotcha's that I need to know about. That's at 10:00 this morning, so I had better go take a shower and shave.

Bye for now.