Having spent the last day and a bit re-installing software on my Dell Inspiron 530, I was disappointed to find that the “Send To” option in Micorsoft Office 2007 was greying out “email recipient”, despite having a fully working Copy of Mozilla Thunderbird to communicate with.

I assume this is an error in the installation, rather than a protectionist measure by Micorsoft, although it may be there to encourage people to install Microsoft Outlook, or use the Microsoft mail client that is built into Vista, as a replacement for Microsoft Outlook Express.

There is a fix, but it does require a registry edit that worked for me on Micorsoft Windows Vista Premium. It will probaqbly work on other versions of windows.

You should only attempt this if you are happy editing your windows registry with Regedit and understand that there are terrible consequences if you make some errors.

1. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem
   Locate the following registry values. Typically, these values are listed in the Windows Messaging Subsystem key.
   
Name Type Data
MAPI REG_SZ 1
CMC REG_SZ 1
CMCDLLNAME REG_SZ Mapi.dll
CMCDLLNAME32 REG_SZ Mapi32.dll
MAPIX REG_SZ 1
MAPIXVER REG_SZ 1.0.0.1
OLEMessaging REG_SZ 1

2. If any of these registry values are missing, follow these steps to add the values:
   1. Click the Windows Messaging Subsystem subkey, point to New on the Edit menu, and then click String Value.
   2. Type the name of the missing value, and then press ENTER.
   3. Click the new value, and then click Modify on the Edit menu.
   4. In the Edit String dialog box, type the correct value for the missing string value in the Value data box.
   5. Repeat steps a - d for each value that is missing from the table that is in step 1.
3. On the File menu, click Exit

Finally, when you restart your Micorsoft Office 2007 application, the “send” option on the file menu will include “Email” as a functional option and Microsoft Word or Excell will be happy to send documents as attachments using Mozilla Thunderbird, or some other Email client.

In the feed back form for dragonthoughts.com, I found the following comments today:

Hi, i have a problem in the mkdir() function in php. the following code
works in wamp server, but when i tried uploading it to a fedora core
server, it couldnt create the directory anymore.

$query0 = "SELECT * FROM request";
$result0 = mysql_query($query0) or die("Query 0 failed ");
while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result0)) {
if ($line['finish_status']==’ok’) {
$content++;
//break;
}
}

$dir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].’/quotations/’.$content;
$check = mkdir($dir,0777,TRUE);


The only problem being, that the requester, didn’t give a return email address! They did find this site through a link from Webmaster world.

My personal guess is that they are running PHP in safe mode on their fedora core, and I would have happily emailed them to assist, if they had given me a chance!

I was recently asked why sources for live dragons are not listed in the products section.

There are two real answers:
1) From a human perspective: International conventions ban the trade in endangered species

2) From a dragon’s perspective: How sick would it be to sell your children and relatives? What sort of “Human” could suggest such a thing?

After a strange discussion with a Rabbi in Wilmslow, I found that there are alternative words to “Puff the Magic Dragon” which tell of “Puff the Kosher Dragon“.
Here at Dragon Thoughts, we’d love to hear of any other alternative versions.

The range of recomended dragon products is expanding slowly- Swarkovski Crystal glass dragons have been added and soon there will be Harry Potter and Dragon Lego for the children.

I’ve just put together, and published a little about the origin an reasons behind dragonthoughts.com.

A range of other activities in my life have slowed my progress on adding new pages to dragonthoughts.com, such as starting a new Japanese course and starting a paper on “What are character encodings and why should I care about them?” which I’ve been invited to write by the World Wide Web Consortium GEO project.

I’ve finally assembled the content for the first few philosophical thoughts pages. If all goes well, they should be posted within the next few days. Some of the pages design has been affected by discussions on how to make pages easy to find for search engines on Webmaster world.

Content on Aichi Expo 2005 has been moved out of the daytrips from Kyoto section as the Expo has now closed.