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View 99: May 1 - 7, 2000

 

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Monday  May 1, 2000

Mayday. I am in Paris watching CNN show riots as bored Londoners attack McDonalds. In Paris the Communists have a big block party, and most of those attending wear Izod and New Balance and rather fashionable and expensive clothing sold by the international cartels they are drinking to the destruction of. It's all very French...

 

 

 

 

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Still in Paris. 

 

 

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Long walk in Paris. Notre Dame, other tourist stuff. La Traviata at the Bastille Opera tonight.

The LA Opera company arranged our tickets, which were good, but finding them wasn't easy. Turned out the simplest was best. No lines to stand in, this after we'd been sent to stand in a line. Fortunately I figured it out eventually.

 

 

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Thursday, May 4, 2000

Got home at about 7 PM. Adventures. Fireball, a Dual Pentium, when started up has only one CPU working. NT 4 cannot stand that and won't open. Got Roland over to help. Temporary expedients in place. I'll build a new main server.

 

 

 

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Friday, May 5, 2000

Operating without a main server, using another as a temp. We will fix all that and rationalize shortly. It's time to have a main server, a backup server, and yet another place to store data.  Time to build new machines. Fun.

It's column time. I was on an airplane during the I LOVE YOU virus. Thanks to the dozens of you who sent messages of warning. I'll probably do a special on this for BYTE shortly.

My thanks to Bob Thompson for looking out for me while I was gone. Lots more later.

I cannot vouch for its truth, but those interested in free government should see

http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/4/30/155105

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Saturday, May 6, 2000

FPRI Report on Who were we in Viet Nam

I am off for the day to my granddaughter's christening. I'll try to catch up with mail tonight.

 

 

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Sunday, May 7, 2000

We're back, and the column is due. I should come up for air shortly...

8:45 PM : I'm almost done with the column and I seem to be coming down with a cold. I often get a cold after being on an airplane. I hope that's all it is.

 

Once the column is done I have a couple of pictures from my granddaughter's christening I intend to inflict on you.

 

And you might want to look at:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000507/ny_newswee_1.html 

which is a fascinating account of just what we didn't do in the Balkan Bombardment.

 

 

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