Give yourself a silver star, John.

You've insulted Tamar's professionally, deprecated her degree, her excellent book, and belittled the thousands of hours she has spent helping people. Tamar doesn't owe anybody anything.

I've got news for you: She can out-sql you. She can out-report-writer you. She can out-automate you. She can out-syntax you, she can out-write I'll bet she can out-code you too. I also suspect she out-community-services you and out-parents you too. She definitely out-classes you by a wide margin.

Take your ADO, and your parotting of the microsoft line, and your self-congradulatory 10-minutes as an Advisor tech editor, as well as all your incessant soap operas, and ask yourself: how can I be less of a public dink today?

Notice that the only self-proclaimed guru that's constantly slobbered in public crapola like this is you. I guess this makes you a lower-echelon guru, if there is such a thing. To place yourself in the same club as Lisa and Jim and Yag and Rick is to insult them.

Also, I was sitting near you in a bar in Orlando and I distinctly remember you uttering the word a-hole about someone, don't deny it, so you owe Meester an apology too.

My two-cents worth, two-face.

Andre