Comments for Pat Rice

Comment on On second thought… by Pat

Pat — Sat, 19 May 2012 14:27:21 +0000

I dithered for nearly twelve hours – admittedly, for about half that time I was sleeping – then ordered the Mills book from Amazon.

Comment on On second thought… by Pat

Pat — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:37:09 +0000

A further complication is the question of mapping Reunion source fields to GEDCOM tags. This is optional – you don’t have to specify a GEDCOM tag for custom fields – but without it, there’s no way to export data from Reunion (e.g., to the OS X version of RootsMagic, should they ever release one).

And a maddening meta-complication: the GEDCOM ‘standard’ is so pathologically non-standard that even if I very carefully specify sensible tags for all my custom fields, there’s no guarantee that they’ll import successfully.

This offends my sense of tidiness & data hygiene, but I don’t suppose there’s anything to be done about it.

Comment on Goodbye, Reunion by Pat

Pat — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:56:41 +0000

The loyal readership (Minnesota division) has recommended CrossOver. Turns out they have a cross-promotion (heh) with the RootsMagic people: 25% off. More information here: http://www.codeweavers.com/via/rootsmagic5.

Comment on This new math amazes me by Pat

Pat — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:13:00 +0000

P.S. One wonders why share counts need to be tracked with seven digits of accuracy. Who, exactly, buys one ten-millionth of a share?

Comment on This new math amazes me by Pat

Pat — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:05:40 +0000

A reply, from Snooty Megacorp’s customer ‘service’ dept.:

The reason for the discrepancy you noticed is that our website rounds the
number of shares to only three decimal places. Please review the following
information:

$54.46 (amount of the contribution) / $126.22 (closing share price)
= .4314688 shares

Thanks for the refresher course in multiplication.

Comment on This new math amazes me by Pat

Pat — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:47:02 +0000

As it turns out, iBank will accept an expression like “54.46/0.431″ in the Share Price, and calculate the result itself. That really speeds up the data entry….

Comment on Instagram by Pat

Pat — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:49:36 +0000

Slight correction: each photo uploaded to Instagram does have its own url, so photos are visible to people who don’t have the iPhone app.

Still no sign of photo albums, though.

Comment on The looming crisis by Pat

Pat — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:06:03 +0000

Jennifer read this, gave a quite fetching eyeroll and said, “Just buy a new one.” So I did.

Comment on Guttr by Pat

Pat — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:54:34 +0000

Great to hear from you! (I knew there was a reason I left comments enabled….)

I’ve been doing genealogy (off & on) for about ten years now, and only recently learned of the Haffa – Maurer connection. Any light you can shed on that would be most welcome. Can you send me a copy of the letter?

Comment on Guttr by Todd Adams

Todd Adams — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:27:04 +0000

Pat my name is Todd Adams. I’m a great,,great,great grandson of Jacob Maurer ,I have part of a letter from Jacob Maurer’s sister ,that her daughter wrote tell of who haffa and Maurer are and where they where from Germany