Paul says our website has its 12th anniversary tomorrow. Of course, it started out as a little thing of maybe 6 pages. I was working in multimedia at IBM Research before we took early retirement. We had too many of the "not invented here" problems, and it was SO exciting to get out into the big world. One of my best friends was my first teacher in the guts of computer languages, and I remember her telling me about this Social Security system she was looking at with a government contract, and that turned out to be the precursor of the web. She worked with some of the inventors. On the other hand, she was also the one with the stories of having to fly up north to little air force bases and walking up to this little plane where a man was jumping the plane battery. Once he started it, he put on his pilot's cap and invited them in so he could take off. There were so many great stories.

Love your phrase about the t-shirt. Oh, gawd, that just reminds me of another story. I was in a group at IBM involved with examining the interface between people and computers. I'd been the chair for programming languages, and one of my friends was the chair for human/computer interfaces. After I left, she gave me a contract to videotape her conference in Boston and make a music video about the event. It was immense fun. She gave me these five little college students to help me with the equipment, and it was like going everywhere with a train of ducks. She held a Boston T-party where everyone came in a T-shirt that said something about their most important concerns so that they would be ice-breakers for this humungus party.

I hide a lot of my stories in my fanfic so I won't forget them. I should put that one away, too.

It's already a wonderful day. The website's up and almost working!! Hope spring makes it out your way.
Best, Mary