Apparently the UK government is proposing to reduce the British Library’s funding and force it to start charging researchers for use of its resources. This will have a major impact on all researchers, both independent and academic. It is also illogical as the government has insisted that access to the national museums is free, and that they provide research facilities free of charge. How then can they insist that the BL — perhaps the country’s most prestigious museum resource (its objects just happen to be books and not “stuff”) — charge for its services. This is crazy!
A petition to the Prime Minister has been set up; you can sign it electronically here: . I urge you to do so! You have to be a UK citizen to sign.
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash and your data is corrupted cause the index doesn’t hash then your situation’s hopeless and your system’s gonna crash!
If the label on the cable on the table at your house says the network is connected to the button on your mouse but your packets want to tunnel to another protocol that’s repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall.
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang ‘cuz sure as I’m a poet, the sucker’s gonna hang.
When the copy on your floppy’s getting sloppy in the disk and the macro code instruction caused unnecessary risk then you’ll have to flash the mem’y; you’ll want to RAM your ROM so quickly turn it off and be sure to tell your Mom!
Eccentric looks at life through the thoughts of a retired working thinker
