¡CRISIS
AT ¡DavE!'S WHIRLED WIDE WEB!
¡COMPUTER PROBLEMS CAUSE
CANCELLED ISSUE 8! |
| A major computer crash caused the
offices of ¡DavE!'s Whirled Wide Web to cancel issue 8 last week.
The cancellation was the first in the history of this website. The
coputer which ¡DavE!'s Whirled Wide Web! is published was in the
middle of an upgrade when things went wrong. "Our old system is totally
kaput and a new computer was purchased to continue publishing our newsletter."
Said webmaster ¡DavE!. The crash was the first time that an issue
was cancelled. Only once before has an issue been delayed. |
| EDITOR'S
NOTE |
Dear Readers,
Due to an unfortunate breakdown
in our computer system this past week, we were unable to bring you last
week's issue of ¡DavE!'s Whirled Wide Web! This is an unusual
incident and will not happen again. Unfortunatly this has also set back
our schedule by a week. This means that this month's feature will be delayed
by a couple of days. We apologize for any inconvience, worry or dissapointment
this has caused anyone. Our number one goal is to bring you a quality website
that you will want to come back to and tell your friends about. We are
currently working on systems that will maintain the site if something like
this happens in the future.
With all apologies,
¡DavE! |
| WHAT'S
NEW |
1 March- Usual updates.
1 March-Added the Kingdome Demolition
site. This month's feature of the month. |
| ¡Favorite
Quote of the week! |
| "A journey of a thousand miles
must begin with a single step."
-Lao Tsu
|
| ***NEW***
USELESS TRIVIA |
What does being drunk have to do
with "three sheets to the wind?"
There are some ways of describing
the state of being inebriated that just sound like what they depict, as
in "soused." Others are descriptive enough-"tipsy," for example.
But this one is pretty cryptic. To understand it, you would have to know
that the expression is referring not to bed linen drying out after the
wash but to a part of the sails on a ship.
In nautical talk, the sheet is the
rope one uses to trim a sail. When the sheet is hanging loose in the wind
it also means that the sail to which it s attached is free to be blown
here and there by the wind. A sheet in the wind thus suggests the tipsy
movements of someone who's has had too many drinks,
and three sheets in the wind describes
a person who is thoroughly blotto. |
| ¡Useless
Facts! |
FOREIGN AID: Business revenues
from outside America
1. Coca Cola-67 percent from outside
USA
2. Proctor And Gamble-50 percent
from outside USA
3. Hewlett Packard-55.2 Percent
from outside USA
4. Motorola-50 percent from outside
USA
5. Intel-52 Percent from outside
USA |
| ***NEW***
JOKE OF THE WEEK |
| Reaching the end of a job interview,
the Human Resources Person asked a young Engineer fresh out of MIT, "And
what starting salary were you looking for?"
The Engineer said, "In the neighborhood
of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package."
The interviewer said, "Well, what
would
you say to a package of 5-weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays, full
medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary,
and a company car leased every 2 years say, a red Corvette?"
The Engineer sat up straight and
said, "Wow! Are you kidding?"
And the interviewer replied, "Yeah,
but you started it." |
| BRAIN
TEASERS |
| This weeks brain teaser |
General George S. Patton had numerous
peace-related interests.
Which of the
following was one of his accomplishments?
A) Patton placed
fifth in the 1912 Olympic pentathlon.
B) Patton, with
the help of his wife, had thirteen children.
C) Patton, a
student of yoga, was able to stop breathing for four
minutes at a
time.
D) Patton was
a composer of some note. He wrote several comic
operettas in
the 1940s. |
| Last weeks brain teaser and
answer |
Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece
The Last
Supper, painted
around 1497, has survived into the 20th century,
but in poor
condition. Why?
A) It's nearly
impossible for a painting to last 500 years.
B) Jealous artists
damaged it following Da Vinci¹s death.
C) Da Vinci
tried a new method of preservation that backfired.
D) Tourists
using flash photography have caused irreparable
damage. |
| Solution |
D) Tourists using flash photography
have caused irreparable
damage. |
| ¡DavE!'s
NEWS |
Here's what has happened last
week in my life-
Have I mentioned lately that life
sucks! Well not really. But for all of you who want to know the real story
of our little hiatus last week here it goes. It's my fault. First of all
a friend of mine gave me a new mother board to upgrade my computer. The
one I was using all these years was a 486dx. That's right all of these
years of publishing ¡DavE!'s Whirled Wide Web! were done on an old
486. Plus it had an almost packed out hard drive. So to top things off
I decided to buy a new power supply cause the one I had had a short in
it. Well I decided to take the whole thing apart and put it together again.
After all I built the system in the first place. The problem was, I had
concentrated so long on the website, that I forgot all of the rules to
put the thing back together. Whoops! My first mistake was taking the system
apart without taking a closer look at the new pentium board. It had no
cooling fan and was missing two chips. There was no point in putting
it in without those and I was too short on cash to buy a new one. So I
decided to take the chips and add them to the 486 board until I came up
with money for the pentium. Well that was my second mistake. When I fist
got the 486 board Larry said to never add chips there becuase the wires
are meshed and would short the board. Damm if he wasn't right becuase when
I got everything back together nothing worked. So after three days of being
pissy realization suddenly hit me. So I spent the next night un meshing
wires. After I got the wires unmeshed, the computer worked. Yay I was back
in business or so I thought. Because the board shorting out also erased
all of the old Bios settings. By this time it was mid week and time to
get my site up and running. However I knew this would not be possible.
So I decided to drag out the old 386 and load Aol(Ok Ok, I was really really
really desperate.) But that didn't work at all. It kept kicking me off
the internet. So finally last weekend I decided to use emergency money
and buy a new computer. And let me tell you it is totally worth it. Now
I can fly through publishing the website. The down thing is all of my old
links and graphics are on the old 486 computer. But I haven't given up
on the 486. I'm going to network the two computers together when I get
the old 486 up.
In other news, Serena is doing
fine. Still no luck in the job search. But I am still trying like mad.
Oh and since I coudn't get online all last week, I saved Zelda!
¡DavE! |
