So, today I have repaired the blown fuse , twice, but have ascertained that it is the light switch in the garage which is the culprit
Sigh
Have also made an appointment to see a GP tomorrow - the rash on my face is getting worse & spreading, & the itching nearly drove me demented last night
Hey Ho
Carinthia.xx
Probably a short - either a loose connection or water getting in somewhere. Either needs to be checked asap, since it seems to be a persistent problem.
Easy enough to fettle for oneself, at least.
Yesterday, as I forgot to mention because my brain had been fried, I got to the end of E in the Directory part 1.
Today I got the temporary denture fixed so that it no longer wobbles, and ate a sandwich in the pub to celebrate.
Allowing for the much lower frequency of names etc, starting with Q, U, X, Y and Z. You are probably about a quarter of the way through. Thatâs not at all bad, Fishy.
TBH I thought when I first joined here and read about your project, it might turn into something of a Forth Rail Bridge, with you forever going back to the beginning and starting again.
My default four-way division is the old London phone book one: A-D, E-K, L-R, S-Z. Of course thatâs (a) for surnames and (b) probably outdated by now.
SoZ was always rather slimmer!
Useders, in a way I shall be, because what I am doing is starting with everyone mentioned in The Book of The Archers (1994) in a first pass, (including information about them from any of my three major sources) then going to The Archers Encyclopaedia (2001) and adding in any names which are in that but not in TBoTA (taking info from there and Lowfield), and finally going to Lowfield and adding anyone who is in that but in neither of the other two. At that point I think Nelson_Gâs âWho Isnâtâ will be of considerable use!
Of course, it is something which may be being added to every day if necessary, because something happens every day to somebody and may be important enough to include in their bio.
(Thank gawd Emma hasnât been important for a week or two or I would never have finished the wretched woman! 14 A4 pages of her.)
Though adding to it everyday, wonât be as time consuming as the initial type-in from the book information (hopefully).
Have you considered just how massive a database youâll have? Where are you going to store it. Wonât it be a tad large for on here? Maybe youâll need a website.
I am relying on Feral Techie, who has promised to make it properly searchable.
Good luck with that. Back about 20 years ago, there were a few free-form database programs, which would run alongside some dial-up BBS programs, to0 provide that function, but havenât seen them for ages.
Looking forward to seeing it all completed.
So am I!
I donât think the FâT was planning to buy something, I think he was planning to make it. He gets this gleam in his eye, and says that something will be âfunâ, and you stand well backâŚ
As a result I have a searchable Lowfield, for instance, one year at a time. Itâs how I can find stuff there comparatively easily. If he can do the same for the Directory, it will be a Proper Directory not a Whoâs Who with half a page each, divided into three parts each of which takes over a minute to load.
Probably just as well, Fishy.
I canât think of any reasonably priced software that would do the job, anyway. 
One does not pay for software. Software written for pay is like poetry ditto: itâs very rarely any good.
Come come: Shakespeare? Iâm sure the sonnets were written to order, and I bet he was paid for them by his patron.
So which version of Linux are you using?
Debian.
If you have the hdd space and enjoy faffing about with computers. Try adding Kali, or maybe install it to a pen-drive.
Itâs on the D: drive on here, with a couple of other distroâs
The C: drive on here is W7-Pro
There is room on the computer zoo in the basement, and the servers in other countries, and so forth, I suspect.
Does it have a breeding programme?
I donât ask. It seems safer not to.