Today I get a letter from my insurance company. I’m not sure if I should be disconcerted when they include a page that begins with “As the year 2000 approaches…”. Isn’t this August? This part was all about how we shouldn’t be concerned with the year 2000 bug, but if we are, and we end up being right, then we won’t be covered. Insurance for dummies.
I wonder if there are people out there somewhere wondering if it is OK to come out of their Y2K shelter, and cursing madly using run-on sentences the person who forgot to pack the can opener as they bash cans of condensed soup with rocks picked out from the wall.
So it looks like Napster got a last minute reprieve from obliteration (not exactly breaking news I know, but I wrote this on Friday – deal with it). Oh boy. The most interesting I have read about this was that everybody was bailing out last night and checking out the alternatives. This mean that many of them had unprecedented traffic to their site, something which caused a whole bunch of them (technical term) to crash. Bummer. Actually, I think that perusing music on Napster (Macster actually – which uses the same server) has caused me to buy MORE CD’s than I otherwise would have. Isn’t that interesting! You see, so many “artists” put out complete crap that I don’t really want to spend 15-20 dollars to see if the rest of the songs on the album are decent compared to what I’ve heard on the radio. Napster-like services are just one manner in which I can do this, but this way I don’t even have to get out of my chair.
If there is anyone out there in University who has ever had to suffer through something called CAPA (Computer Aided Physical Agony –> in Chemistry or Physics) then you will understand why I am happy that I have finished the last one. Ever! And I finally got 100%. So there!