Btw, my wife's hand-made wedding dress was stolen two days before the wedding . . . .
--jks
>
>Well, I know a woman who left the only copy of her just-completed PhD
>thesis on her computer in the house she was living in and one night the
>house burned down. (She stood in the street in her nightie yelling about
>the last seven years while the place went up in flames.) So she asked
>Cornell if they'd let her get her degree anyway based on the work she'd
>done (her committee had seen it). They refused, but gave her a short
>extension. Not very funny.
>
>Joanna
>
>
>At 18:30 18-01-01, you wrote:
>>first, anyone remember julian's (from the UK; sociology of music diss)
>>email address. i recall that he migrated to a provider in the UK, begins
>>with a B, had some problems with a hackers early last summer... i ask
>>because julian had a funny story about someone who had his diss stored in
>>about 5 different ways.
>>
>>anyway, i'm looking for (i don't) backup (my files) horror stories. if
>>you have any funnies or not so funnies to share, let me know. i might
>>tell the one about bad subjects listers getting resubbed because bad list
>>admin didn't back up the subscriber list as they should. some of you
>>probably remember how Carenegie's e-server would go down for days. when
>>it went back up, a bunch of people, who'd managed to get unsubbed after
>>months of being unable to, would automagically find themselves getting the
>>dreaded mail from the bad subjects list. heh.
>>
>>thanks,
>>
>>kell
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