Christmas

Ya, A merry Christmas to all And a happy new year Thanks for you help

I'd like to add my wishes to helpers and helped on here too. Merry Christmas.....

I'd also like to add my salutations and thanks to all the generous people who take their time to help all of us, and especially to Justin Webber for operating one of the most useful sites on the Internet. And now, for festive enjoyment of this holiday season, here's a little poem I spotted on the Urban Legonds web site: A Programmer's Christmas: 'Twas the night before implementation and all through the house, Not a program was working not even a browse. The programmers hung by their tubes in despair, with hopes that a miracle would soon be there. The users were nestled all sung in their beds, while visions of inquiries danced in their heads. When out in the machine room there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my desk to see what was the matter. And what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a super programmer (with a six-pack of beer). His resume glowed with experience so rare, he turned out great code with a bit-pusher's flair. More rapid than eagles, his programs they came, and he cursed and muttered and called them by name: On update! on add! on inquiry! on delete! on batch jobs! on closing! on functions complete! His eyes were glazed-over, fingers nimble and lean, from weekends and nights in front of a screen. A wink of his eye, and a twitch of his head, soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, turning specs into code; then turned with a jerk; And laying his finger upon the "ENTER" key, the systems came up and worked perfectly. The updates updated; the deletes, they deleted; the inquiries inquired, and closings completed. He tested each whistle, and tested each bell, with nary an abend, and all had gone well. The system was finished, the tests were concluded. The users' last changes were even included. And the user exclaimed with a snarl and a taunt, "It's just what I asked for, but not what I want!" (http://urbanlegends.about.com/science /urbanlegends/library/bltwas.htm)

Thank you to all.

And to all, may your bios integer code array balance the anterior-based quantifier shield wall. And may your refractive input controllers imperviously amalgamate at the optimal algorithm infusion levels! HO HO HO

Happy 2001 and Marry Christmas!!