Scott: I can't tell you how often this has worked for me. Particularly, on a large programming project many many years ago, it actually became a reliable pattern for me. I would find myself stuck sometime late in the evening--usually around midnight. I just couldn't figure what was wrong. I learned to go to sleep. Sure enough. Somewhere around maybe 4, maybe 5, I'd jump out of bed having awakened with a start. I actually dreamed the solution. Over and over again, time after time, I'd run to the computer and make the change. Bingo! Everything worked. And, then, it was on to the next problem, and on to the next point of frustration and confusion, etc., etc., etc. PS: Lest you think I lived on 4 hours sleep, that's approximately correct. But these were pgrogramming jags of one to three weeks--with weeks off inbetween. Meanwhile, I would also take a nap of around half an hour somewhere early to mid afternoon. It's the nap that actually kept me going on this kind of crazy schedule. Ah, the days of being free and fancy loose to just write, write, write. -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp
