(This page is of historical interest only. The scheme articulated here was further developed in summer 2002 as Pirarucu, and elaborated in early 2003 by Skip's development of SnipIt.)

2 June 2001
I've been thinking about a means to provide an easy interface for a Database to handle the gathering and then organizing and maintaining the gallimaufry of citations and references and URLs and bits of thought that tumble through wetware. There's a  mailto form that serves for the moment as a preliminary to the building of an .asp/Access version.

18 June
Last week I messed with .asp with Tom and Skip's help and built a prototype via personal web server for a Science Reference management tool: http://137.113.197.53/accumulator/refForm.asp

I think this is probably generalizable in a number of ways, one being Skip's idea for 'Penny Drops':

Let me elaborate on this the wonderful idea of a 'penny drops' web page.  you know... 'every once a penny drops and I have a good idea'  that's the kind of penny drop I'm referring to.  The penny drop interface that you have been designing for the science library meets this description.  Got a good idea? drop it on a web page, got a bit of information? drop it.  Spruce this interface up with a method to add images and wee wow!  Online journal, collaboration tool, common place book.  The secret here is to add the 'pennys' to an HTML page instead of a database, making them visible to search engines. (15 June)

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver]Error in row
/accumulator/cache.asp, line 44

19 June
Yup. At the moment both work so long as all fields are filled in. If one isn't there's an error message:

[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver]Error in row

Tom helped out with relevant code:

if not(strEmail="") then
 objRec("Email") = strEmail
end if

27 June
Both cache and ref versions are now working, thanks to Skip's help...