LOL! That's beautiful... something I think I'll post in my office! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray G. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 5:08 PM Subject: Re: MC front end to PostgreSQL > Yo troops, > With all this talk about the pleasures of working with HTML, I just > couldn't resist sending this along... > > ---------------------- > HOW TO BUILD A WEB PAGE IN 25 STEPS > 1. Download a piece of Web authoring software ~ 20 minutes. > 2. Think about what you want to write on your Web page ~ 6 weeks. > 3. Download the same piece of Web authoring software, because they have > released 3 new versions since the first time you downloaded it ~ 20 minutes. > 4. Decide to just steal some images and awards to put on your site ~ 1 minute. > 5. Visit sites to find images and awards, find 5 of them that you like ~ > 4 days. > 6. Run setup of your Web authoring software. After it fails, download it > again ~ 25 minutes. > 7. Run setup again, boot the software, click all toolbar buttons to see > what they do ~ 15 minutes. > 8. View the source of others' pages, steal some, change a few words here > and there ~ 4 hours. > 9. Preview your Web page using the Web Authoring software ~ 1 minute. > 10. Try to horizontally line up two related images ~ 6 hours. > 11. Remove one of the images ~ 10 seconds. > 12. Set the text's font color to the same color as your background, > wonder why all your text is gone ~ 4 hours. > 13. Download a counter from your ISP ~ 4 minutes. > 14. Try to figure out why your counter reads "You are visitor number > 16.3 E10" ~ 3 hours. > 15. Put 4 blank lines between two lines of text ~ 8 hours. > 16. Fine-tune the text, then prepare to load your Web page on your ISP ~ > 40 minutes. > 17. Accidentally delete your complete web page ~ 1 second. > 18. Recreate your web page ~ 2 days. > 19. Try to figure out how to load your Web page onto your ISP's server ~ > 3 weeks. > 20. Call a patient friend to find out about FTP ~ 30 minutes. > 21. Download FTP software ~ 10 minutes. > 22. Call your friend again ~ 15 minutes. > 23. Upload your web page to your ISP's server ~ 10 minutes. > 24. Connect to your site on the web ~ 1 minute. > 25. Repeat any and all of the previous steps ~ eternity > > ------------------------------- > > Ain't technology wonderful? > > > Ray G. Miller > ----------- > Turtlelips Productions > 4009 Everett Ave. > Oakland, CA 94602 > MailTo:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (V) 510.530.1971 > (F) 510.482.3491 > _______________________________________________ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard > _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard