This site is simply here for informational purposes, but visit the fun section anyway. You will find a lot of information on computers. I update or create some page pretty much weekly. External links are in bold. It uses a cookie for storing the menu's state (whether a section is collapsed or expanded). it makes using this web site a LOT more convenient. There may be a cookie involved in the email form, but it contains no information about you, nor is it used for tracking - only for security purposes.

This is a 736-page PC-oriented site, though once in a long while you will find some Mac tidbits. I am learning bits more about the Mac as I go along.

To navigate this site, click the yellow closed folder next to the menu items to expand them. It works kind of like the Windows Explorer. To collapse, click the opened folder again.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every person, and it can never be filled by any created thing. It can only be filled by God, made known through Jesus Christ.

Blaise Pascal

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion. God governs all things and knows all that is or can be done.

Isaac Newton. Tiner, J. H. 1975. Isaac Newton: Inventor, Scientist and Teacher. Milford, MI: Mott Media.

Well God, I've wanted to win, won, and tried to win up to now. How about if you win? I've had enough.

Jim Michaels 2009

I am allergic to grapefruit - and I am glad I am.

Jim Michaels 2009

God invented computers and software. That goes for medicine as well. He puts great ideas into people's minds - when the time is right, God's invention flourishes, and the the idea forms in someone's mind.

Jim Michaels 2010

Proverbs 8:12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
Proverbs 8:22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. (KJV)

At a tree sin was discovered, and at a tree grace was won.

Jim Michaels 7/11/2010

2 Samuel 23:11-12 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines. 12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.

KJV

If my people, which are called by my name, will humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and heal their land.

1 Chronicles 7:14, KJV

what programming is like for me

social networking... Is Jim Michaels on:

facebook?

My IT policy on Facebook is No. Please don't take this the wrong way. This is purely for practical reasons.

• I develop and distribute software.
• I maintain several web sites, my own is massive.
• I can't afford to get a virus or a worm or spyware in my files or on my machine.
• facebook is known to have local-computer-infecting worms. usually they have already been "blocked" as abusive, but I don't want to take any chances.
• facebook has "notifications" that if clicked on can spam my contacts, without me knowing about it. I don't like that. I had it happen to me once with "invite as friend by whozitz to xyz" with my yahoo mail and I don't want it happening to me again.

twitter?

Surprisingly you would think that with a -page web site, I would be a talky person, but I have a hard time talking. I mostly share information that I have learned either from experience or from on the internet. I don't know what I could share in 140 characters or less.

Ask me a question and I will try my best to answer it, but twitter is for the birds for now. anything I've got to say I'll say on my web site or in an email, maybe on the phone.

besides, twitter is getting dangerous to have with some of the new apps that are coming out.

about my programming

The languages I currently use for development are SQL, PHP, C++, Perl, Java, Assembler, JavaScript, Auto-it3, Tcl, BASIC, and now the flex & bison tools (again). I only do minimal stuff with Flash.

Certifications have not benefitted me and seem to be a waste of my resources. I know basically what I can do.

Windows GUI programming I tried once before using MFC, but now I am trying to tackle it using only the Win32 API. any help is greatly appreciated. Now I would like to work with combo boxes and list boxes without using a resource editor, and using mingw.

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