If the Beatles were geeks:

Yesterday, Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.Suddenly, There’s not half the files there used to be,
And there’s a milestone hanging over me.
The system crashed so suddenly.

I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say.
Now all my data’s gone and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.

Yesterday, The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
I knew my data was all here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.

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Campus is crazy. This is Welcome Week, specifically the dorms open today, so all the parking spaces are taken. People are parked on the curb. Normal entrances to the university are block off by Public Safety and Parking.

Had a meeting to go to at 10… was 15 minutes late because I could not get off campus even when I left 10 minutes early. I could have walked there in 10 minutes.

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How about this coversation…

[15August2001 – 15:18PM] Le Corbeau: Sneez from which movie is this line? “its a .88 magnum. It shoots through schools”
15August2001 – 15:19PM] sneezy: dunno… let me research the quote
[15August2001 – 15:22PM] sneezy: Johnny Dangerously (1984)
[15August2001 – 15:22PM] sneezy: Danny Vermin: I got something to stop him. Dutch: They made it for him special. It’s an eighty-eight Magnum. Danny Vermin: It shoots through schools.

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Remember the Random Elizabethan Curse Generator? Wow… remember seeing this back in 96 or 97!! Thanks Le Corbeau!

Maybe that is showing how much of an old fart I am for this Internet stuff. I got started hardcore back in the tail end of 1995 and have been going strong. My first internet experience was actually the summer before… Netscape 1.0 on a 14.4 dial-up modem.

By the by… Netscape 6.1 is better than Netscape 6.0, but am having problems. First, can’t force a login to Netcape Internet Messenger so I can’t use that. Older javascripts which anticipate Netscape’s old style do not work. Stuff like that. If they hang in there another year and can beef up usage to the point the web designers like me care, then maybe just maybe… Netscape will make a come back.

Don’t hold your breath.