What Is an ASP File? Files created with Active Server Pages have the extension .ASP. This story is an example; take a look at the address above. With ASP files, you can activate your Web site using any combination of HTML, scripting such as JavaScript or Visual Basic?

Is It Hard to Use? I don't know about you, but whenever people start talking about doing things on the server, I start to get nervous. I think a lot about threading issues, synchronization, and generally stuff without a user interface. I assume it's going to be hard to do. Well, using ASP is about as easy as anything I've come across in years.

Aw, Mom. Not Another Object Model! I really hate doing this to you, but I'm going to have to use that overused and overcomplex term "object model" again. Here's how it works. When a browser requests an ASP file from your Web server, your Web server calls Active Server Pages to read through the ASP file, executing any of the commands contained within and sending the resulting HTML page to the browser.

Do you go on a vacation on a bus guided by flag waving travel employees or jump bus and adventure the unknown, alone without map or direction? Brazil is aflame with gangs on patrol and Mexico is a war zone of warlords. But you are an adventure traveler, looking for dreams and the realization of fantasies that the Travel Channel seems to endlessly feed. You have been waiting a year for your annual vacation, freedom from the slavery of work. You don’t have a summer home for a small part of the year like your neighbors, in fact you don’t have much money at all, but you long to walk the craggy valleys of Planet Zena, observe the natives dancing ouga uga dances around a fire tounging on a new moon in hula hula skirts, and awake to find Toto and you beneath a tornado’s funnel, staring upwards to the holy votex of darkened light.

The wizard pulls some levers and spins some gadgets and gives you the keys, “You drive” he whispers and disappears. Understanding the objectives of a meaningful vacation or a holiday is the first step in having a dream time. A vacation is not meant to be a stressful and painful ordeal! Vacations are a time to rejoice to travel to be together, in love on a beach with Venus glittering in the rippling water as great ancient fish from the age of the Cambrian dance and splash in the deep sea, far out to sea. In love, as life is, one, in the arms of your beloved. A meteorite draws a white line across the black inked sky. It says your name and dissolves into time, eternity forgotten, on the wind, in your last breath on the cold carbon dust of the last star at twilight.