The Web Surfers Report

Hello,

I just got my system back together. I learned the hard way to be very careful using OS/2 boot manager and installing MS/DOS.

Exiting OS/2 fdisk without setting a partition to installable, sets up MS/DOS to format the entire hard drive instead of a single partition.

Friday night I installed Corel Draw and choose all the fonts. Bad move. Windows NT system crashes suddenly became a very common event.

Hoping to solve the problem without disrupting my production system, I tried to install another NT in my test partition. This is when the MS/DOS format feature bit me.

In the middle of one the four or five Windows NT installs, over the last two days, the hard drive failed. Somehow the OS/2 format procedure was able to overcome this additional problem.

46 hours, 99 bottles of beer and 12 packs of cigarettes later, the PC is on-line and can exchange e-mail. Getting the PC to do heavy lifting will take some more effort.

How did the rest of the week go? Thanks for asking.

In a scene better suited to the Dilbert comic strip, I found myself attending a staff meeting for a group that no longer exists. "The meetings will continue until we find out why nothing is getting done around here."

Scott Anderson's Joke of the Day now has a local archive.

Igor, stranded in DC, was on the wrong side of two blizzards this week but still managed to e-mail the latest odds on the political campaigns.

Clinton as the Democratic candidate: shoe in, no bet.

Anyone else as Democratic candidate: 100 to 1 odds.

Republican candidate - payoff / bet

Dole - 11 / 10. Clear front runner and media favorite.

Forbes - 10 / 1. Second in the polls but no organization in Iowa.

Gramm - 10 / 1. Strong organization in Iowa.

Alexander - 50 / 1. Some strong support but no broad support.

Buchanan - 50 / 1. Well known but too far right.

Dornan - 100 / 1. Just helping fill the stage.

Keyes - 100 / 1. Great speaker but no one's listening.

Lugar - 100 / 1. A favorite son at best.

Taylor - 100 / 1. With Forbes in the race, just another businessman.

Superbowl: Dallas and Pittsburgh - Dallas by 12 and a half points.

After two days of staring at this monitor and performing brain surgery on this beast, it's time for a break. See you next week.

A solitary snowman stands as a lonely sentry in front of the White House. It begins to crumble revealing Igor and the this weeks URL list.

The Dick Assman Homepage - looks like winter even gets to the Canadians.

A Visit to Yesterland - Disney Land tour for the time traveling couch potato.

Suck - history of the cool site of the day, et al.

Fool Site of the Day - April 1, 1995.

Sextacy's Adult Links - whatever sales.

sarcasm.com main page - Captain Sarcastic presents a little sarcasm.

Einstein - Einstein quotes and nucleur links.

Word For Word - some columns about word origins.

WebSter's Dictionary -web page spelling checker.

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