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>[Daniel wrote:] Com'on ... Who on earth would use "Empowering You" as his mail name except a troll or spam like PR agency. Seems to me Just So Obvious what is their job and who they work for. Empowering You! is actually Pamela L. Ammond dba Empowering You! (yes, the company name includes the exclamation point). I started it in 1983. You all are going to be bothered by this, but I'm responding truthfully anyway, there were two reasons why I chose the name Empowering You!: 1. Back in 1983 I was extremely excited about discovering Windows 3.1. (I wanted to combine my art and computer skills by going into multimedia and I was excited that now I could do so much more graphically on the computer) I felt like a wizard and that I could make magic with the new technology (just like I feel now about .NET); that I could really use it to empower people; and that it was a totally awesome paradigm shift from DOS and Unix text based environment. Yes, it was a knock off of Apple and nothing really new, but it felt like it to me. (I know you are thinking "another Microsoft product, geez, get over it", but that's the truth and since 1983, I haven't been very excited about Microsoft until .NET, and in fact decided to program in Cold Fusion instead of ASP.) 2. Windows, computers, XML, etc. are just tools. I named Empowering You! to remind me that what I was currently doing was just a small part of the big plan of where I intend to go, and still it is, (surprise! I believe .NET is just a tool, not a religion :-) But at the same time, I think it is an awesome paradigm shift and will really unify us and allow us to do so much more than before it came along (remember you can do things like code in Cobol in .NET)). I love the journey and hope to someday really empower people more than I am now, by using all the tools and concepts I've gathered along the journey. So the name Empowering You! is always there reminding me not to get stuck somewhere in my path of learning, using, and doing; to keep on moving forward and never rest on my current accomplishments. Empowering You! is what shows as my email name because I use it for business correspondence. My clients recognize email coming from Empowering You! while they may not recognize something coming from Pam Ammond. And it's the business I want to advertise, not me. I am not using at as a "handle", it's the company name used for marketing purposes. You all (not to again over exaggerate saying it is all of you, but using it in the southern manner to indicate a group of people) are an excellent example of why I never put my company name on my booth at conventions. People take one look, say "I'm not into that" and pass by without even seeing what's in the booth. This is just a fact (people by nature must be selective in what they view or they would be overwhelmed), I'm not trying to be disrespectful of you. I DON'T WORK FOR MICROSOFT AND HAVE NEVER CONTACTED THEM FOR A JOB OR BEEN CONTACTED BY THEM TO WORK FOR THEM IN ANY CAPACITY. I swear it on the Bible, Koran, etc. It's in writing for all of you to see. Ok?!!! But if they ever did want to pay me for being me, I'd snap at it. One can get very broke learning a huge new thing like .NET and all the related technologies like XML. So I don't guarantee this statement to be true in the future. But on the other hand, I can't imagine that they'd ever hire a miniscule company like Pamela L. Ammond dba Empowering You! or want to pay me for being me. "Hey Microsoft, I'm kind of broke right now. Would you please send me a check just because I'm like many other programmers and am trying to learn .NET. It would be GREATLY appreciated. My address is 2119 Dennison Place N.W. Canton, OH 44709-2758. If you could get it out ASAP then I could buy that new book on XSLT I saw yesterday at Borders and your new one on XML Applications I also wanted. Gee, that's $100 right there!. So if you could make my check for a few thousand, that would be nice. Of course, if you want to make it for a $10,000 that's a nice even number and I could take some DevelopMentor classes on .NET that I saw in the mail. Thanks in advance, Pam") Or maybe I should ask Microsoft for pain and suffering payments for being me and also in the xml-dev forum (just kidding!). Pam Ammond Empowering You! website: http://www.empoweringyou.com Please check out the "Wow! Look At Windows XP" book I wrote at http://www.windowsxpbook.com
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