Readers have of course noted the absence this past weekend of OO number 540, and, we like to think, have rushed hourly to open their E-mail in-boxes, looking for their pearls of wisdom for the coming days. We regret to report that the cause of the delay has been a multiple computer failure. The computer room at the Objective Observatory contained two high speed desktops, both fully configured. When the priceless words of the weekly columns had been produced and approved in the Staff’s executive session, they were saved on the main computer (a Micron) and on the back-up, and then on a CDRW disk. Well, the back-up machine (a Dell) suddenly went dead, and since Dell’s service has no idea where Anguilla is (they asked the OO sixteen times for the address here), that was that. It was time for a replacement, and a fancy MicronPC has been ordered by the Chief Technical Officer (who is unqualified). Whereupon, the main computer, learning that a younger rival was on the way, had a fit of jealousy and died on the spot.

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