Yesterday, I received my first fan letter, handwritten on 3-hole-punched filler paper:


I'm not sure I have any good photographs around, but I can probably dig one up. Think I should send him one?

My brother was cleaning out his email box and discovered a bunch of emails from 1996. Remember what things were like then? I had just moved to the UK....

About three weeks ago, I upgraded my Toshiba to Windows NT Workstation. =
I discovered (after reformatting my hard drive, of course) that The =
Microsoft Network is incompatible with Windows NT. Sigh. In addition, =
the next week at work one of my co-workers rolled his chair over a power =
cord, shorted it out, and pretty well fried our office server. Since the =
installation media for the machine was on the other side of the =
Atlantic, the system administrator elected to use that moment to upgrade =
the operating system to a newer version (which we happened to have on =
CD-ROM in the office). Unfortunately, the new version of the operating =
system changed the format of the "sendmail" configuration file. I =
believe that this file is somewhat important in telling the operating =
system where to send mail. In any event, whenever I sent email outside =
of ETI, I received a message five days later telling me "Unable to send =
mail for five days...no route to host...deleting from queue." So it took =
at least five days (more like eight, since we had a company Christmas =
party last Friday) before we discovered that none of our email was =
getting properly transmitted.

To cut a long story short, I believe I'm back on-line, though I can't =
access any email you may have sent to Glen_Campbell@msn.com (at least, =
not until The Microsoft Network provides support for SMTP and POP3 some =
time next Spring).

For those of you in Texas:

We'll be in Lumberton celebrating my parents' 50th wedding anniversary =
from the 19th through the 23rd of December. Then we'll be in Austin from =
the 23/24th through the 26th. Then back to East Texas for my neice's =
wedding on the 27th. Back to Austin to visit with our friends at church =
on Saturday or Sunday. And then back to East Texas before we return to =
England from Houston on the 4th of January.

Merry Christmas!
--
Glen Campbell
52*24.1'N 0*40.0W (Ascot, Berkshire, UK)
XXX@XXX.com

I think Hollywood has finally lost all creativity. They're no longer giving TV shows titles, they're just giving them numbers. I guess it started with NUMB3RS, but ABC is now featuring The One, 6 Degrees, and The 9 (not to be confused with The 9). I'm sure there are others out there...

The "feeds" feature of Yahoo! 360 is very frustrating to me. At present, all of the people in my friends list have feeds appearing on my page. However, the feeds are not of things that they have written; they're from external sources such as Micro Persuasion or Yahoo! Tech News. I could just remove them, but then I'd have no way to keep up with them if they post a "real" blog entry. There doesn't seem to be any way to flag a user as "hide this guy's feeds."

I had understood that the intent of the feeds feature was to allow you to, in essence, "re-post" things from another blog or site to 360. By arbitrarily posting external feeds, it's made the home page feature nearly useless. One person has the "YouTube latest entries" RSS as a feed; this thing gets updated every few minutes, and therefore that person permanently occupies the top spot on my 360 home page, even though there's literally nothing there that I'm interested in. The feed tells me nothing about that person (ok, maybe that he's not interested in sharing anything about himself). I guess I'll just have to remove those folks from my friends list.