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Stay tuned for detailed specifications, and hopefully availability dates and pricing, on the new Lenovo A70z ‘all-in-one’ pc.  These guys are self contained within a 19″ display panel with all the bells and whistles of a high end desktop pc running Windows 7 Enhanced Performance.

The 12th Edition of the Charlton Standard Catalogue for Royal Doulton Figurines is released today, July 7th, in North America, and in three weeks in the UK.  The cover price is $39.95 USD and can be ordered now - call 1-519-751-3900, paypal only.  Shipping and taxes are extra depending on your location.

Looks like Microsoft released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Visual FoxPro 9.0.

Download Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0. SP2 provides the latest updates to Visual FoxPro 9.0, including fixes to several issues reported by the community. A list of bugs fixed in this service pack is also available on the download page.

VFP9 SP2 requires either VFP 9.0 (RTM) or VFP 9.0 SP1 to be installed. SP2 setup will patch either installation. However, the SP2 patch cannot be applied to any of the CTPs (Community Technology Previews) or Betas. Make sure those are uninstalled before installing the SP2 patch.

Finally, had implemented a portion of a long standing idea to develop a community interest site on Royal Doulton figurines; a compendium of their attributes - a Royal Doulton Repository or RDR for short. The site is still under development, but the beginnings of the Royal Doulton Repository can be found at http://www.software-intellect.com/rdr/. Thus far, the numerical listing of Royal Doulton figurines by their HN (Harry Nixon) number is fairly complete and active at http://www.software-intellect.com/rdr/figures_hn.php. If any figurine name attribute’s are missing, or are incorrect as shown, let me know.

The values shown are in Canadian Dollars (CAD) and are based on the Charlton Standard Catalog 11th Edition by Jean Dale. As the catalog only goes up to March 2006 (sort of), the figurines introduced thereafter show the current Suggested Retail Price (SRP) in CAD. Charlton Press plans on not releasing a new catalog edition this year.

Well the Microsoft FoxPro team released SP1 for VFP9 on December 8th, 2005, after a three month beta cycle. It seems the SP1 build is based on a month old build (Nov 4th, 2005). They plan on releasing a SP2, but not until the first half of 2007 to coincide with the Sedna release. Wow, that is a long time away to have to live with whatever bugs remain.

On 2004-12-17 Visual FoxPro 9.0 was completed and released by Microsoft!  For MSDN subscribers, Visual FoxPro 9.0 is available as a download.  Retail versions, either full product or upgrade product, are available through retailers at the time of this posting.

I have had the privelege to use Visual FoxPro 9.0 for a little over a year now and the new features and improvements, especially the new report writer functionality, are just great!