The icon on your Microsoft Mary app is 'The Cat In The Hat'. This really happened. joe / oc / virginia / usa / 3rd rock

hi tiem, i found a vb6 project that uses the xvoice.dll. you may be able to use it. based on my project there is a property .CountEngines that lists the number of voices, in my case 8. so i used a list box to select each voice like this in vb6: spkSpeak.CountEngines = val(ListBox.Text). I could not make the .gender property work, but using this approach I have 5 female voices and 3 male voices. very truly yours, joe / orange / virginia / usa / joeinorange2@aol.com

There was a Project Meeting of the Star Wars Program (in the 80's) and the Project Manager stood up and said, I've got bad news about the Particle Beam Weapon. Our engineers calculate that the Particle Beam Weapon will require 10 to the 20th power watts, and we've only been able to supply 10 to the 10th power watts. So a member of the audience piped up, 'Hey great, we're half way there!'. Probably a lawyer.

I have devised an infinite series based on the Golden Ratio which converges to ln(x) (natural logarithm. Can somone check my work and comment? I would like to know its origin. Is there a friendly grad student in a math department at some university who would be interested? thanks, Joeinorange2@aol.com Joe Sharp

Can I code in C or C++ for the Macintosh? I have borland tools. I also have Visual C++ in the Visual Studio, but have never used it. thanks, joeinorange2@aol.com Joe Sharp

I have a personal project I've been working on for about a year, A Crossword Puzzle solver. It's pretty simple but it has 110,000 word dictionary and another 2500 words and phrases gleaned from real puzzles. I'd like to market it as a product, but don't know how & and I don't see a very wide market, but it was fun working on it. js