A man was walking along a beach when he found a lamp. Upon rubbing the 
lamp a genie appeared who stated "I am the most powerful genie in the 
world. Because I am so powerful, I can grant you any wish you want, but 
only one wish."

The man pulled out a map of the Mediterranean area and said "I'd like 
there to be peace among the people in the middle east." The genie 
responded, "Gee, I don't know. Those people have been fighting since the 
beginning of time. They are always going to be fighting. I can do just 
about anything, but this is beyond my limits."

The man then said, "Well, my staff is switching to Excel. I wonder if 
you could show them how to get started."

Genie: "Uh, let me see that map again."



Ward Oldham wrote:

>or maybe Excel.
>
>Practically no learning curve for doing database work.
>
>Ward
>
>
>On Aug 15, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Anne Cartwright wrote:
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>>The following was just released out on macNN
>>(http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/08/15/appleworks.discontinued):
>>
>>Apple discontinues AppleWorks
>>
>>Without grand publicity, Apple has decided to stop all development on
>>AppleWorks, its formerly iconic productivity suite. The information  
>>was
>>quietly passed on to resellers last week, who were told that the
>>software had reached an "End of Life" stage. Sales have been  
>>officially
>>stopped, and trying to visit the AppleWorks website redirects visitors
>>to the page for the recently-launched iWork '08. iWork handles many of
>>the same tasks as AppleWorks (spreadsheets, presentations et al.),  
>>while
>>the latter has not been updated for some time.
>>
>>
>>iWork needs a database to satisfy my needs; or maybe I will half to
>>learn how to use FileMaker Pro.
>>
>>Anne Cartwright
>>
>>
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will
>>be September 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane.
>>Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
>>Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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>_______________________________________________
>The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will
>be September 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. 
>Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
>Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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