Online to Offline (was Re: [LINK] Funerals hit the Web)

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Ahhh a pun afternoon, thanks David!

...You don't suppose the video apps run as a daemon do you?

RC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Chia [mailto:rsedc@urgento.gse.rmit.EDU.AU]
> Sent: Wednesday, 25 September 2002 13:46
> To: link@www.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Online to Offline (was Re: [LINK] Funerals hit the Web)
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:02:14AM +1000, Bernard 
> Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> > <brd>
> > The Internet's killer ap?
>                  ^^^^^^
> > </brd>
> 
> Bad choice of word ? :) :)
> 
> 
> > Funerals hit the Web
> > Perth
> > September 25 2002
> > SMH
> > http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/25/1032734204929.html
> > 
> > People unable to attend funeral services can now see their 
> loved ones being
> > buried via the internet.
> 
> Seems like this is a new trend. The Japanese appears to have 
> this service
> using fiber optic link a few years back. Busy executives can 
> even pay the
> annual homage to their ancestors from their office desks. The 
> Financial
> Times has just the right title - Online to Offline,
> 
>   http://www.geocities.com/bobmeyer_us/econ_01.html
> 
> Just the other day someone mentioning the price for a competition
> that you'll kill yourself for:
> 
>   http://www.newscientist.com/competition/
> 
> Then there was another mentioning something that might even revive
> the one that has passed away. No, not the potent cocktail. On second
> thought, I better skip it since the content might be 
> offensive to feminist
> or those easily offended.
> 
> On a lighter side, for those people who had previously complained here
> about the letter 'e' has been overused and there is now a general lack
> of the character, here is the chance to bid in a auction for the big
> 'E', the Enron E logo weighing 200 lbs,
> 
>   http://www.dovebid.com/assets/display.asp?ItemID=web990182
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Chia
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