Cafe Einstein - LPTPW 17 - animal, vegetable, and/or a minerally type chemically thing, and maybe some other things as well, yes :)

AOL still let's you sign up for free and you get a free email address with it, that's the one I use for my online purchases and then almost never go look at it. As for AOL itself, I left it long ago for other things, but as I said it is handy for all the junk emails.

AOL are an abomination to be avoided at all costs.

I can get you one 10% off! But don't tell anyone else.

So too do we who answer the door to them, Sir :-)

Are you saying it is only the Tory who lies? ;-)

To those whose place in heaven depends upon conversion of others, a polite pointer that I will not get them there is usually sufficient. That it does not work on the faithful in politics, is lamentable :-)

edit for Mr Charpentier: My commiserations on your demise, Sir :-)

We have information monitors displaying stuff at various points in the building. (Part of my job is to generate content for one of them.) Part of the package is canned stuff such as a word scramble (much easier than ours) and "Did you know?" Yesterday's Did you know? was: At one time in the 1990s, more than half of all the CDs produced in the world were for AOL.

We used to have that. At first, I was only responsible for making sure the computer's output was piped around the building to the TVs (we used an unused channel and mixed it in with the incoming feed from Comcast; after they went digital-only, we got a new four-channel RF modulator and sent out CNN, Fox, and Weather Channel along with the Powerpoint). Then I was given the ability to reboot the computer and start the Powerpoint again when necessary. Then I could make content for it. Then the secretary who usually made the content was sick or something and they had me remoting in to update it every day. This was a PITA because the remote program didn't refresh my screen when that one changed, so I had to look up at the TV in our office to see what it was really doing.

This new system is much more sophisticated. You can upload Powerpoints, videos, pictures, Flash media, links to remote web pages (for live weather, for instance), and such like that. It all goes into one server and is distributed to individual screens based on their IP address. The stuff I make goes to the one outside the library's front door, along with our Twitter feed, the principal's Twitter, the Athletics Dept.'s Twitter, the Student Services Dept.'s Twitter, ads for plays and other special events, and the generic package stuff. Most of that goes to all the screens in the hallways, but mine only goes to the one (I can ask to have it go to others if it's important). Some of it, plus other staff-only content, goes to the screens in the department offices. Different screens can be showing the same content at different times. Problem is, a lot of the people who are supposed to be generating content for the ones outside their offices aren't bothering to do it.

P.S. Today's Did You Know? says 20 of the world's 25 most poisonous snakes are found in Australia.