Those old form emails I found on the floppy disks? I posted them online. Usually I’d send out a long email to friends at the beginning of a new semester with the highlights of what I did over the break between semesters. It was a good opportunity to catch up. The earliest one is from January 1996. So its kinda fun to look back and find out what I was upto during that time.
Back then email wasn’t such a chore. It was something to look forward to. Email was a novelty of sorts. College buds had it. Some techies had it at home. But most people outside of the educational and technical world hadn’t heard of it yet. “Email? What’s that?” was the response of many of the generation ahead of me. The year 1997 was when the internet started getting some momentum. Soon everyone had it. And I mean everyone. Your grandmother even had it.
The ones from 1998 were posted on my old website in my pre-Blogger days. Before Blogger software was even developed, I’d usually post a commentary on my website until I got bored of it. It was too much trouble to post a new message…format the page properly….and archive my old ones. Movable Type and Blogger make me take those days for granted.
Like an old western, Bush has called out Saddam and given him 48 hours to get out of Dodge…or Baghdad whichever is easier to say. At least Bush has stood up for something. Some people can’t seem to take a stand one way or another.
Other war news:
“We have to arrive at a position that makes the most sense for the NCAA, but we don’t want a tyrant to run our lives.”
Dixie Chicks’ song falls 15% after Natalie Maines’ comments on Bush.
Its like defacing the Statue of Liberty….spraypainting your country’s national icon.