Do you have a page you want to watch, but it needs to be refreshed often, like, say an Ebay auction page? Put it inside a self-refreshing frame.
Do this:
Save that to some filename like watch.htm and load it in your browser; I do it in Firefox, I have no idea if Internet Exploiter will work with it or not. That timeout (60000) is a one-minute refresh; if you want a different time, multiply 1000 times the number of seconds you want. Naturally, the page must be one that permits itself to be displayed inside a frame; many don't.
I figured this out on my own after reading some of the reference material on frames and refreshing at w3.org; I'm sure somebody else has thought of it before, too.
Here's a roundup of news articles about hams helping with Katrina rescue and recovery:
Google Search: ham radio Katrina
Perry signs sweeping telecommunications reform bill
Not only did our moron governor not veto this piece of trash bill, the stupid idiot signed it.
So the entire Texas government is now officially a worthless puppet for the telephone industry, from the governor right through the legislature.
Lost my vote, didn't you? Yes you did. Moron.
The Texas cable industry filed suit Thursday in a last-ditch effort to block a new state law that will make it easier for big telephone companies to start selling television services.
The lawsuit targets Senate Bill 5, which allows SBC Communications Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. to launch their Internet-based television services without having to negotiate scores of local franchise agreements.
Instead, they can get a single statewide franchise, which will save them time and money as they enter a new business that could mean billions of dollars in new revenue.
Gov. Rick Perry signed the measure into law Wednesday. The phone companies already had planned to launch pilots of their new services later this year.
The Texas Cable & Telecommunications Association maintains that the law gives the phone companies an unfair advantage, leaving cable companies burdened by the terms of local franchise agreements until they expire, which in some cases is years from now.
I am still extremely angry at the Texas legislature and governor for the Telecom "Reform" bill, a bill that was written by telephone company lobbyists for the benefit of the telephone industry. This bill will permit the telcos to charge pretty much whatever they want for local service, all in the name of "increased competition". The "increased competition" is a joke, since the competition they are talking about comes in the area of providing video services over telco circuits, and the telcos were exempted from having to negociate franchises with the cities, as the cable companies are required to do. So they can undercut the cable providers without the overhead of municipal franchise fees. That's not competition, that's a handout courtesy of the Texas legislature.
Add to that the blanket authorization of BPL, and I am really angry. The representative from Dallas, Will Hartnett, managed to get the Texas Public Utilities Commission added to the bill with authority to shut down an interfering BPL system, over the objections of the bill's author (go figure!), and has promised the North Texas ARRL Section Leader that he will ensure that the PUC does its job. Thanks, Rep. Hartnett.
That's a small consolation for a big loss for Texas consumers and hams, but it's better than nothing, which is what the bill's proponents intended to give us.