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knoxcotn-digest Thursday, December 30 1999 Volume 01 : Number 032
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 20:15:14 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Test drive assistance requested Through the marvelous efforts of a great lady named Maureen Reed, I've just gotten a database of Blount County marriages from 1911-1950 and Blount County divorces from 188x-1950 on-line at http://web.utk.edu/~kizzer/blount/demo.html This is a DEMO site -- please don't spread the URL around on other lists, etc. I would appreciate your test-driving it for a couple of days to see if you find any glitches in the display. Please respond personally (not to the list!) if you do, so I can correct them. Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 22:03:44 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] You're Not Working on the Year 2000 Date Problem Because.... *********** BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE *********** You're Not Working on the Year 2000 Date Problem Because.... 1. You're already in Chapter 11. 2. You're 95, on life support and haven't paid your electric bill for the last 3 months. 3. You're planning to retire next year. 4. You're not using computers yet, you're waiting for the prices to come down. 5. It's someone else's problem. 6. Someone smarter than you will come up with an automated solution. 7. You believe in the Tooth Fairy. 8. Your standards (found in a large red binder in the IS library) outlined how dates should be used in all applications. 9. You only use vendor software. 10. You lost the source code of your applications 3 years ago. 11. You just don't have the time right now. Ask me again next year when things slow down. 12. You don't believe in computers. 13. Government will pass legislation to roll back the clock to 1900. 14. You're moving your mission critical systems to client servers. 15. You'll have replaced your applications by then. 16. You don't have the budget. 17. You're too busy writing new applications (which can't handle the year 2000 either). 18. You're planning to sell your company next year. 19. January 1st 2000 falls on a Saturday and Monday's a holiday... you'll have lots of time over the weekend. 20. You were planning to phase out computers anyway. 21. You can't believe 2 missing digits can cause that much trouble. 22. You don't thinks it's such a big deal... but you'll have a programmer wear a beeper just in case anything goes wrong. 23. You're planning a vacation that week. 24. There are no date problems i nyour code (you have faith in your programmers). 25. You have no programmers (your competition hired them away from you last week). 26. You can't afford the cost of maintenance (but can afford the cost of going out of business.) 27. You're waiting for someone to convince you the problem is real. 28. It's not your job to worry about this. 29. You believe a comet is due to hit Earth in 2000. So why bother? 30. Your management has not asked you to work on it yet. 31. You've outsourced your IS function, they're taking care of this... you hope. 32. You're sure your vendor has taken care of this. 33. Bill Gates will solve it. 34. You have no programmers (you downsized last year). 35. You have no programmers (you outsourced last year). 36. You have no Cobol programmers (they all moved to Client Server last year). 37. It's too complex. 38. You've got a headache. 39. You don't like large maintenance projects. 40. What date problem? 41. Nostradamus never mentioned this problem. 42. You don't want to. 43. You're a disgruntled employee. 44. Computers have no impact on your life. 45. You like the excitement of system crashes. 46. Your multi-million dollar company doesn't really depend on computers. 47. We can hire enough people to replace computers as they fail and even save money too. 48. You believe in the sanctity of all life... even computer bugs. 49. You want to surprise your stockholders. 50. It's Politically Incorrect to tell management they have a problem.... (especially one they didn't budget for!) Copyright 1995 by Peter de Jager. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 20:38:33 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Fwd: 15 Unforeseen Consequences of the Millennium Bug 15. IRS demands a hundred years of interest from stunned taxpayers. 14. "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" song gets stuck in infinite loop. 13. At the stroke of midnight, Windows 99 turns back into DOS 1.0, the Pentium V turns back into an 8088, and the Handsome User is left holding a beautiful glass mouse. 12. Internet Movie Database now lists "1901: A Space Odyssey." 11. Residents of Indiana have to figure out if they're off by 999 years, 364 days and 23 hours, or 1000 years and one hour. 10. Bob Dole's age erroneously listed with only 2 digits. 9. Mel Brooks's "2000 year old man" skit stops being funny...Oops, too late. 8. Sales of Coca Cola jumps drastically after original cocaine-laden formula becomes legal again. 7. Software engineers point out that since computers think it's almost 1900, we technically have to "party like it's 1899," which, frankly, doesn't seem like much fun. 6. Microsoft declares the year 1900 to be the new standard of the "Gatesian" calendar. 5. Jesus shows up late for His second coming, blames it on COBOL programmers. 4. Computers temporarily fooled into thinking Strom Thurmond is only 103. 3. First Top 5 List of the year? "Reasons No One Would Ever Assassinate President McKinley." 2. Using a computerized adoption service, Michael Jackson mistakenly takes home some octogenarians. 1. Unexpected demand for COBOL programmers results in severe understaffing of fast-food restaurants. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 00:34:47 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] This is not the way to end the year.... I'm still waiting for more details, but we've had a tragedy in Knoxville tonight. The former Fowler Brothers' Furniture downtown store, which Knoxville's downtown redevelopment gurus hoped would be the linchpin for a revitalization campaign, burned to the ground. The loss of a building is sad, but the **tragedy** is this: A reliable source told me that some of the overflow from the Knox County Archives was stored in that building. When I get confirmation, I'll forward it to the list. Please write the Tennessee legislature (www.state.tn.us/search/ to find your representative's name) and tell them it's IMPERATIVE that we get money to microfilm every unfilmed loose record and book in every county. Otherwise, we're gonna lose more material. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 10:53:18 -0500 From: Nancy Haley <nhaley@rivnet.net> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] mcmillan and malaby - --------------59784416A9278368174BC1BD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Looking for ancestors and info. on these families. Parlee Ray Malaby maiden name Saunders Robert Malaby Supervisor on Cherokee Reservation children George Malaby ---- Taylor----- Ina < married a McMillan> Elizabeth <son Chester> lived in Knoxville. Tn area. Parlee Ray died possible 1921 -- 1923 possible full blood cherokee from Saunders father and mother. thanks for any info. - --------------59784416A9278368174BC1BD Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <b>Looking for ancestors and info. on these families.</b> <br><b>Parlee Ray Malaby maiden name Saunders</b> <br><b>Robert Malaby Supervisor on Cherokee Reservation</b> <br><b>children George Malaby ---- Taylor----- Ina < married a McMillan> Elizabeth <son Chester> lived in Knoxville. Tn area.</b> <br><b>Parlee Ray died possible 1921 -- 1923 possible full blood cherokee from Saunders father and mother. thanks for any info.</b></html> - --------------59784416A9278368174BC1BD-- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 11:28:57 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Update on Knoxville fire damage 12/30/99 OK -- I have the details about the extent of last night's fire. The Fowler Brothers Furniture building didn't burn all the way down. The fire started on the roof and burned downward. Right now, the people who know about these things think the building is recoverable. The newspaper and television stations have vague references to lost "archives" material that was stored in the building. It wasn't county records, as originally reported. It was surplus inventory from the East Tennessee Historical Society's Museum bookstore, plus "some artifacts we were planning to use in the future." The material didn't burn, but it suffered a lot of water damage. ETHS staff members are surveying the site right now. You can visit http://www.knoxnews.com for photos and a story about the fire. This is an EXTREMELY slow-loading site, so be prepared to wait. You can visit http://www.east-tennessee-history.org for any updates they might post on their specific losses. ------------------------------ End of knoxcotn-digest V1 #32 ***************************** |