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It was 43 minutes into my 45 minute squash match. Dove out left to make a backhand reaching around my opponent. Snap goes the heel, like a rubber band. I knew that wasn’t good as I’m there on the floor after successfully making the shot. There was no pain. I tried to get up but as soon as I put my foot on ...

Upgrading your software is something you want to do often, to get new and enhanced features and bugs fixed. But it is also something that sometimes bites you back, with features that you used to use getting removed, or having new bugs introduced that now pop up when you do something that always used to ...

A relatively new Internet phenomena made up of questions determining an individual’s behaviour seems to have been coined with the term “meme” (rhymes with dream). The genealogy topic memes are both interesting and fun to fill out. For bloggers, they give an opportunity to tell people about themselves. ...

Today, I was looking forward to spending a good number of hours working on Behold. My computer has been running well almost since I bought it several years ago, but this morning it was either a fake genealogy website or an email link (I'm not sure which), that ended up wasting my day. Fortunately (or should ...

I'm continuing work on the documentation. While doing that, I've noticed a few small bugs in the program and I've been correcting them as I go. But I'm also being careful not to get too carried away. First I wondered if there was too much overlap between the Tutorial information and the Reference section. I ...

I didn't think it would happen so soon. I thought it was still months away. But a couple of weeks ago, Delphi XE2 became available for purchase. Today I bought the Professional Upgrade, normally $500 but 20% off because I was one of 700 attendees at an online Embarcadero Event on August 31. I don't normally ...

I had said earlier that my Netfirms site moves went fairly well. But a couple of other glitches have showed up since then that are important. First, and I just discovered this yesterday, and it's being worked on: If you go to the Behold download page and enter your name and email address and press the "Send ...

Randy Seaver just posted an article on GEDCOM, Software, Online Trees and Syncing in which he outlines the horrendously time consuming job he does of creating a GEDCOM file every month, transfering it to several other programs so he can use their functions and help his readers, and then send the updated ...

In 0.99.22, I removed the "View" and "View All" buttons on the Organize GEDCOMs page. What I didn't realize was that this would remove the code the viewed the GEDCOMs from the main form. The GEDCOMs couldn't be opened from Behold any more, so this had to be fixed. As punishment for this transgression, I ...

Behold is developed with the Delphi programming language. I've used Delphi now for about 15 years and over that time, it's had its ups and downs. In 2008 it looked like it was reaching the end of its life as Borland no longer wanted it and was having trouble finding a buyer. Embarcadero, who was basically a ...