Why? 2K!

["Alan Bradley" <alanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alas, I'm probably going to be out at "the appropriate time".  It's not the
end of the 20th century, or the millenium, but, as a former computer
programmer, it's an interesting time...

To celebrate "the end of the world as we know it" here's a quote
from Ken Macleod's The Sky Road, where the world's computer networks go
down.

The idea in the following is that civilisation is going to fall, and this
is the _last_ email message - a kind of testament to the barbarians:

"Nothing is written.  The future is ours to shape.  When you take the
cities, spare the scientists and engineers.  Whatever they may have done in
the past you need them for the future.  Let's make it a better one."

I tried to find Trotsky's epitaph for his son on the net, but I couldn't.
It would actually be a better epitaph for the 20th century.

Alan Bradley
alanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

ps:  I probably won't be home to send a "please disregard the previous
message".  Have  a good 2000, OK.

pps:  Once I get my head right tomorrow or the day after, I'm going to try
to write something about the National Question (with capital letters).