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The Telecom Digest for January 1, 2013
Volume 32 : Issue 1 : "text" Format
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Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 00:00:19 -0000
From: Telecom Digest Moderator <redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Happy New Year
Message-ID: <20130101033653.GA12257@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Another year has come and gone, and I'll take this opportunity to
thank you all for your support and your contributions during
2012. I'll add a special thanks to John Levine, who has provided the
Telecom Digest with invaluable help and support for many years, and to
Robert Bonomi, who wrote our day-to-day processing scripts, and kept
the Digest running while I was in Montana last summer.
As I write this, the new year has just started in Greenwich, England,
so it's now 2013 in Greenwich Mean Time. I have a few things that come
to mind, off the top of my head.
1. I don't care if it's called "UTC" now. It's "GMT" to me.
2. I can't believe that I got to be this old. I was going to live
fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse, but it looks like
I'll only get one out of three. It sure seems fast, looking back.
3. If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we make a cellular
battery that lasts for the whole day?
4. Why doesn't Jon Postel get credit for inventing the Internet,
instead of Al Gore?
Sigh.
Well, enough of that: I hope you and yours have all the best of 2013.
Bill
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