On 31 Dec 00 at 18:05, Mel Evans wrote:
>>Here we go, 1 foot (30cms) of white stuff (snow) outside, and temperatures
>>around minus 10 here in Scotland!
We are now recovering from 2 ice storms in the last 2 or 3 weeks,
here in Arkansas, USA. Still quite a bit of ice in the trees and on
power lines, and plenty of folks still without electricity since
Christmas night. It's snowing lightly as I write this.
>>To-night is Hogmanay here in Scotland, when we celebrate the coming of a New
>>Year with a drink or two (or three or four 8>] ) and especially at the
>>"bells" as the old year is rung out and the new year rung in. Underneath all
>>the celebrations though, it is traditional to make a toast in the first few
>>minutes of the New Year, one especially for
>>
>>"Absent Friends"
>>
>>for those friends who are not with you because of illness, distance, or who
>>have passed over in the previous year. This year I will be thinking of all
>>my "Friends I've never met" at that time and thanking you for your help and
>>support over the year. Feel free to join me wherever you are at a few
>>minutes into the New Year your time.
We will spend this evening at our church's Watch Night service,
seeing the New Year in with fellowship, prayers, singing, preaching,
and certainly food and drink. I will wish all of my Arachne list
friends a Happy New Year and offer a prayer for you all.
>>Tried Netscape 6.0 also. Now that's a winbloat and a half, BUT it is
>>excellent, and I like just about everything I've tried on it so far. The new
My, God, isn't that the truth! The bloat part that is. I found it
much to slow on my P100 compared to IE5.0x. I will give them credit
for the download manager program that they use. I was disconnected
about halfway through the 15 or more files you need and was able to
logon to my pay ISP (I started downloading on a free ISP,
Bluelight.Com) and it picked up the download right where I left off.
Way kool. The Gecko HTML engine is open source and it is starting to
appear in other browsers without the Netscape/AOL bloat of V6. There
might be some good come from it in another browser incarnation.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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