Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

[Robin Szemeti]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> At 17:48 23/03/2001, you wrote:
> >On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> >
> > > Well, I can make a guess at what the first number represents. Those 
> > expansion plans really are short-term.
> >
> > >       Peter Haworth   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > "Put down those Windows disks Dave....  Dave?  DAVE!!"
> > >       -- HAL 9000
> >
> >and for a bonus half point (cos its easy) .. why was HAL called HAL?
> 
> Well, Arthur C Clarke claims it's a pure coincidence, but if you take the 
> letters after each of H, A and L - you get IBM.

you have it in one .. I had heard (as others point) out that he denies he
noticed .. I reckon he was scared of IBM suing him for some totally
implausible reason .., I can however believe that Stanley would have
wanted to re shoot bits when he found out as he was several watermelons
short of a dinner jacket that man.

I wonder if Darkstar is available on DVD ? .. hmm now .. who do we know
htat does DVDs?

-- 
Robin Szemeti

The box said "requires windows 95 or better"
So I installed Linux!