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Turning the (web)Page

Wednesday, January 1, 2003

• TITLE: "Turning the (web)Page" I have never been much of a New Year's Eve celebrant, even in the days when staying up past midnight was a regular thing. At my present age, if I am in the Eastern time zone, I generally awake during the night to celebrate with those in Denver and in Alaska.

• Here is the link to the cruise Travelogue: My Cruise. My LAST Cruise

• "... Enron, WorldCom and Global Crossing ..." These were three of the companies - but by no means the only companies - who got caught cheating in their accounting practices. Mullings has an accountant, a great accountant if you're looking for one - Lonnie Morris (972) 985-0011 - who has kept me out of trouble for many years.

• "... hit ..." A "hit" is defined as any graphic element on a web page. A graphic element can be anything from a logo to a photo to an advertisement to an underline. Hits, therefore, can be manipulated. If I add a number of very small dots across the bottom of the page - maybe 50 of them - that would increase by 50 the number of "hits" recorded every time you went to the Mullings web site.

  If someone tells you how many "hits" their web page gets, you should squint, look them in the eye, and ask "how many page views?"

• "... Clinton Interview ..." Here's the link to the parody of Clinton joining the Israeli Army.

• "... USS Theodore Roosevelt ..." Here's the link to the Statement by the Captain to his crew.

• "... 300-plus page novel ... " As examples, Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is about 147,000 words. Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities weighs in at 136,000 words. Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a modest 113,000 words.

  Mullfoto of the Day:
  Dawn on December 31, 2002 looking from the dock on the Potomac River at Mullings Central, north toward the Capital.

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                  World War I Poster
  The legend reads:

  Glasses will be returned at Termination of War, if possible.
  One Dollar will be paid for Each One Accepted.
  Tag each Article with Your Name and Address and express or Mail to
  Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Asst. Sec'y. of Navy.
  c/o Naval Observatory - Washington, D.C.

  
  

•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  

  
  A US soldier at Camp Yankee, 15 km south of Iraq in the Kuwaiti Desert on New Year's Eve.

  (REUTERS/Peter Andrews) ____________________________________________________________________________________