MC front end to PostgreSQL

[Ken Ray]

LOL! That's beautiful... something I think I'll post in my office!

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray G. Miller" <rgmiller at pacbell.net>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
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
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