Club Astoria

won accomodation 8days, 7nights.. choose from Bali, Indonesia; Mexico; or USA...

Its another marketing strategy from the Astoria plaza hotel owners here in Ortigas, Manila, Philippines where they call you and offer you dinner for two on their hotel, then tour you on their hotel facilities, then surprise you for a one-on-one talk just like 'Family First'. What I hate about this is not telling you the whole story or agenda. Its a waste of time for you and them. It would be rude to turn them down after giving you a dinner, right? Bottom line is you have to decide after the one-on-one marketing talk. I really don't know if thats good or bad. It has pros and cons.

Any way, they'll still gonna give you the accommodation as gifts. But there's a deadline for reservation and use. You also have to make a P5k down payment, to be reimbursed to you after the trip.

Well, its up to us if we're going to use it or not.

cooking documentation: data from isis to cd [mysql db]

ingredients:
- isis db with complete fmt (format) files
- winisis
- editpadpro
- opensis exe
- delphi program
- delphi 6
- installshield
- burner+ nero

cooking procedures:
- copy isis db necessary files to subfolder "db\"
(bib.cnt,fdt,fst,ifp,lo1,lo2,MST,n01,n02 ,pft,stw,xrf, *.fmt)
- open isis db via winisis
- export to xml by 5k recs
- check xml via browser
- check special char error line#&position using editpadpro
- global replace char via winisis-tools, (char equiv below)
- change version# on delphi program
- compile, create installer using istallshield
- burn

how to eat:
- dlephi program facilitates search from searchbox to grid result
- search keyword is passed by delphi program to opensis
- openisis searches the keyword from isisdb and
produce xml file result to delphi program
- delphi program sorts out xml result to grid into readable form

char equiv:

• < = &lt;
• > = &gt;

• ± = ±
• ½ = ½
• ¼ = ¼
• ¾ = ¾
• § = §

• £ = £
• °c = ° c
  
• µ = µ