About the date:
> we have both got our dates set wrong on our computer. I was puzzeled that
> your message was at the bottom of my date ordered inbox - really, Friday,
> Feb 27, 1920 is further than I ever dared to err.
Oddly enough my sent-messages box clearly shows the date as Aug. 2, 2099,
which my computer thinks is correct. I keep setting it back to 1999, but
every few months it suddenly decides it is 2099. I am told that the
person who owns the company that made this operating system is now the
richest man in the world AND that his total worth has DOUBLED in the past
year.
My favourite Dilbert sequence is where in one cartoon Dilbert's mother
vows to kill the person who designed the operating system in her computer.
Then in the next cartoon the police arrive at her door and accuse her
of making death threats. She says that her computer crashes 5 times a day
and the only way she can get it to reboot is to unplug it. The police
respond by saying "OK, we're in. Have you got the guy's address?"
You know what operating system those cartoons are about, don't you?
dpw
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