[OT] A tale from my childhood.

[Richmond Mathewson]

My [OT] message was meant to be 'OT', and as such not taken quite as
seriously as some people seem to have taken it.

Bernard Devlin wrote:
> Richmond,
>
> I'm sure you remember that often when the idea of a browser plugin for
> Revolution was proposed on this list, one of the issues that arose was
> the difficulties for a small company like Runrev providing such a
> plugin given the existence of so many browsers and the inevitable
> incompatibilities.  Recently Bill Marriott did point out that this was
> indeed causing problems.
>
> I'm sure that Runrev had only good intentions 
I have never doubted RunRev's intentions, and I am sure they are, on the 
whole, good.
> when they posited an
> availability date that has now slipped.  Since this new plugin is part
> of Rev 4.0, I suspect they do not want to let a beta out into a public
> sphere if they know that there are going to be too many bugs.  The
> outcry and complaints could taint the reception of 4.0.
>
> All good things come to he who waits - because he suffers fewer bugs! :-)
>   
Not always true:  the other day a child brought a friend along to one of 
my classes.

Afterwards I felt a bit itchy; thought nothing about it; and 2 days 
later was
crawling with some sort of mites, and had to go and have an extremely
embarrassing interview with the doctor.  :)
> Bernard
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Richmond
> Mathewson<richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> When I was a child somebody promised me a set of colouring pencils,
>> they were not forthcoming; later he promised me a special pen and
>> pencil set, they were not forthcoming; I am waiting for the notepad
>> he eventually told me I would get as he couldn't manage the other
>> things.  That was about 40 years ago.
>>
>> Well, even though I never got the presents, I learnt a valuable lesson;
>> which, recently I forgot.
>>
>> Silly me.
>>     
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