Hi all,

I was "backing up" the Guest Book we keep at the StreetCam (this involves photocopying the pages :-) ), when I realized that it might be nice for folks to see what others have written there.

After a few false starts, I've gotten all 113 saved pages of the StreetCam Guest Book on-line.

Go to http://www.BonaireWebCams.com (or http://my.BonaireWebCams.com if you are a member) and click on the "Guest Book Archives" link in the menu to see the Guest Book pages.

Please note that in order to be readable, each page is about 120KB in size, so this will take a while on slow connections.

If anyone reading this is really bored and wants to make a list of which page (going by the image#.html file name) starts on which date, I'd be happy to add that info as an index so people can located dated entries in the Guest Book more easily - first volunteer gets a free Bonaire WebCams T-shirt and a credit on the index page of the Guest Book Archives if they so desire (upon completion of the task - the date/page index should be put in a spreadsheet with column A as the starting date of a page in MM/DD/YYYY format and the image#.html file name in column B)). Any volunteers? :-)

Jake

Jake,
Thanks I'll come back from lunch and start reading again. Had to find mine first. Wish I would have been more creative. Next Time!

Ida


probally will be too big?

Jake,
Thanks I'll come back from lunch and start reading again. Had to find mine first. Wish I would have been more creative. Next Time!

Ida

What fun! Thanks, Jake! The copy & scan would be labor intensive!!!

The copying was more labor intensive than the scan (I have an automatic document feeder on my scanner) :-)

And a combination of Photoshop's batch processing, and ULEAD's slide show creation software took care of a lot of the production work.

Jake

Jake, great idea. I think I'll write something in a few weeks...

And if no one volenteers, I'll put something in excel. Can I download the files or am I going to do this on-line???

If you could mail me the gifs, I could have a bit of automation into this... (I know, lazy...)

Automation? You can do handwriting recognition with your computer? :-)

Take a look at the site first before you commit - if it were simple (instead of time consuming) I would have done it to start with! [grin]

Jake

Jake, yes I can. (well at the office...) We have a OCR program that can "read" written things. And I've looked at it. I'm not prommissing it will be fast, but I do have 10 hours in a plane in a few weeks...

Okay - if no one has volunteered in the next week or so, ding me via e-mail and I'll e-mail you a ZIP with all the GIFs (although the image names do not directly relate to the HTML file they are referenced in...)

Jake

OK. I'll. Enjoy your stay at the DEMA!

This thread needed a fish...

The guest book is great, have to look it over after work. I know that took some time to scan, thanks Jake!

Great feature Jake , thanks for all the tedious work

Jake,

Super idea!! Bet you'll start to get some "creative" artwork now!

Spreadsheet is made. Working on the entries. Probably be done by tomorrow morning.

Bill

Well, Bill, sounds like you'll be the happy new recipient of a Bonaire WebCams T-shirt before long. E-mail me your preferred shipping address and T-shirt size, and I'll mail it to you from Las Vegas next week.

Thanks!

Jake

I love it, Jake! What a great idea. Yes, we must be more imaginative with our entries, now!! LOL. Carole

Keep in mind I only scan in B&W though :-)

Jake

Jake,

Spreadsheet sent to "richterscale". Hope it does the trick.

cheers,

Bill

Received. Looks great!

Jake

Bill, Are you a fast typer???? That's quick...

Martin,

Hardly any typing involved, luckily, since I'm a two finger typist. Just required viewing each page and typing in the start and end date on the page.

Bill

Jake, You sure do know how to make us smile when we can't be in Bonaire!!!! Thanks!!!!!!!

Jake,

way to go...
Hope to sign the guest book over 1 month.
Keep up the good work!

Well, all, thanks to Bill's diligence and support, we now have all the Guest Book pages date indexed. Go to http://www.BonaireWebCams.com or http://my.BonaireWebCams.com and click on the Guest Book Archives link and you will see the results of his work!

Thanks, Bill!

T-shirt will get sent from DEMA next week!

Jake

Bill, well done. Jake, it looks great!

Two thumbs up Bill!

Makes it possible to find the pages that go with the cam pics.

Thanks to all of you for making our life away from Bonaire more tolerable! Thanks. Carole

Bill is the Alpha Geek this week, kudos to you sir.