Pete Theisen writes:

> It was a URL. It loaded like the wind - no graphics, all

> text. It was a web app called "The Thing". A little text

> description was to the effect that Paul and Ed hoped we would

> like this holiday gift to the community - an online

> application checker/translator, along with the holiday wish

> that this would help people get work done, understand all the

> stuff we have to understand and maybe even make money. All

> thought of sleep suddenly vanished.

Pete, how in the world could you have known that Ed and I have

actually been working on such a "Thing"? It is a side-project

to my "Thought Recorder and Full-Text Retrieval" project.

The basic idea is that The Thing will solve all the world's

problems, pretty simple when you think of it.

Ed, you've been putting more work than I have into this. Do you

think we'll have it done by XMAS?

Oh, we need to also credit Dan Covill for some of the basic

framework ideas.

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Paul McSheep