As that day approaches which, apart from
computer technology, would be just another day like
any other except to some persons who attribute magical
properties to numbers, I, like many others,
have my millennium (Y2k) greeting to share with
you:
http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/Y2kGreeting.html
Best wishes for the new millennium! And may the computer
technology which brought us the "Y2k" bug make up
for the trouble it has caused us, by facilitating us all
to celebrate felicitously together that new year which,
in computer terminology (where numbers are often
"base 2", and a "k" is consequently: 1,024...) shall
more properly be called "Y2k": 2,048!
--
N.b.: If you, like myself, think the Times Square
"Time Ball" that drops at midnight of New Year's Eve
is just kitsch, I learned from the U.S. Naval
Observatory website -- http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ --
that this is not exactly true:
It is an *atavism*. In the days before telegraphy,
The USNO [and other observatories] would
drop a ball from a pole atop the observatory
building at NOON each day, so that anyone who
could see the observatory building could synchronize
their clocks.
\brad mccormick
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Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
914.238.0788 / 27 Poillon Rd, Chappaqua NY 10514-3403 USA
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