It's the little things

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Friend works for Nextel - designs towers. Tried to use a new y2k compliant spread sheet program recently. Came up all cross hatches. Couldn't get it to work. Suddenly the light comes on. A common, widely used software program -a little thing, no big deal - just an aggrevation. But he was dead in the water because of it. He sat there multipying in his head all the possibilites. I think he is now officially GI.

-- April (Alwzapril@home.com), September 14, 1999

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When I go camping with freinds I carry a snakebite kit. Never been bitten by a snake, so why carry it?

Hurricane Floyd has been coming for two weeks. Only today have the hardware stores been swamped with folks looking for generator plugs.

Sometimes I wonder how our species made it this far.

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), September 14, 1999.


Friend works for Nextel - designs towers. Tried to use a new y2k compliant spread sheet program recently. Came up all cross hatches.

Sounds like the field is too small. Just expand the column.

-- (read@the.manual), September 14, 1999.


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