apologies

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Jay West may have mentioned these words:
>My apologies folks, quite a few people have emailed me and I've been 
>extremely difficult to get ahold of lately.

I haven't tried... I *know* my arms won't reach from yooperland...
;-)

No need to apologize, for sure! I just went through a week of the same 
stuff, diddling a database for a friend of a friend...

>[snippage]
>... We host a lot of websites for music groups... John Fogharty, Steve 
>Winwood...

Have you ever met Mr. Winwood? My wife would be all a-twitter if I told her 
I know a guy that met him... ;-)

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On a related note, back in the early days of my learning about this 
interweb thingy, I was sent down to Duh-troit for a week of "training" --> 
well, these folks were great at their jobs of setting up & hosting 
websites, but they really weren't cut out for the education jazz.

Anyway, one of the websites they hosted was Thomas Dolby's -- he was an 
"early adopter" of the 'net; his website couldn't truly be appreciated 
unless you had high bandwidth - (read: at least fractional T1; and a pretty 
fair fraction at that[1]) and the guy who was "educating" me took a call 
one day from Mr. Dolby himself -- as I sat right next to him.

Believe you me, Bubba: Looking back, it was rather anticlimactic -- hearing 
the speakerfone: "Andy... Mr. Dolby on line 2 for you." and then 20 minutes 
of "Yea... Neat... We could try that... How about this... That would take 
some time..." whilst I had nothing to do but watch him click fervently at 
the website's links and get the short end of a 1-sided conversation.

But at the time, it was kinda neat...

(This was *almost* 10 years ago, but the machines we worked on at the time 
are all over 10 years old now... Yea, lame attempt, but it's a Saturday 
morning and I'm at work...)

Laterz,
"Merch"

[1] This was at a time that 14.4 modems were still pretty expensive, and 
28.8 was almost an unaffordable luxury...

--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch at 30below.com

What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????