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Sunday, January 2, 2000 10:01 a.m.

I use a discontinuted macro generator called PopSite for one of my web sites. As of Jan 1, the 'date' and 'eurodate' formatting methods stopped working.

&(revisiondate = 
  currentDocument.timestamp.date);

&(revisiondate =  (" " +  
 currentDocument.timestamp.year
 + "/" + 
 currentDocument.timestamp.month 
 + "/" + 
 currentDocument.timestamp.dayofmonth));

Saturday, January 1, 2000 02:01 p.m.

This web site is called bahamas2000.com but this morning the date at the top of the page rolled over to January 1, 3900. The code looks like FrontPage and Javascript stuff: <script language="JavaScript"> <!C- // hide javascript TDay = new Array('Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursda1 January 3900, so perhaps the bug is in my browser.

Click here for their y2k statement. I wonder how long it will take to correct the script, since the webmaster writes on another page:

Sorry for not responding to e-mails but the stupid Batelco monopoly (unlike Microsoft, Batelco is a real monopoly, i.e., the Bahamian government outlaws their competition) has had their Internet service down for the past three weeks. So not only do I get no Internet service I have to pay 10 times the U.S. price for it!

Saturday, January 1, 2000 12:42 p.m.

I noticed my first y2k bug around 9:30am GMT-4 in WS_FTP.

When I sorted the local file window by revision date, my file that was modified today, January 1, 2000, was sorted to the bottom instead of the top. And the timestamp displayed was "10000101 09:5".

Cool. Of course this is freeware version 4.12.97.01.22 from 1997 and the About box gave me a "download latest version" button. The new version correctly sorted the year 2000 files to the top of the sorted list, although it displayed them with "00" for the year.

Saturday, January 1, 2000 07:46 a.m.

"Treehouse Hostage" is perfect for New Year's Day. Aimed at 8-10 yearolds.

"Timmy Taylor is a computer whiz who specialises in avoiding his homework, water gunning the neighbourhood females and humiliating his principal as well as local police officers. In short, he's every kid's secret role model and every parent's white-knuckle fear. Jim Varney plays Carl Banks, an escaped prisoner who stumbles into Timmy's treehouse security system. This is a treehouse to die for, equipped with computers, security system, video camera, winch, stockade, and an unending supply of helium. Banks ends up the prisoner of Timmy and his two treehouse buddies, Stevie and Buddy. Needing a current events project to avoid summer school, Timmy decides to keep convict Carl to use as his project."

P.S. Notice the date above. Apparently Javascript in Netscape 4.05 is Y2K compliant.

Friday, December 31, 1999 12:14 p.m.

In honor of the day, here is the Treehouse Software y2k statement (posted in 1997 and still valid!).

Friday, December 31, 1999 12:05 p.m.

Ghana:

Thursday, December 30, 1999 02:43 p.m.

"To the lawyers who would make our lives difficult; the ungracious software authors who demanded that we post, or not post, or update or not update; and to the users who assume the world owes them a download; we say: get a life."

Thursday, December 30, 1999 11:10 a.m.

Hubat automatically creates a Yahoo/DMOZ style directory structure. In Beta - competition for Google soon?

Wednesday, December 29, 1999 02:06 p.m.

The Simpsons treehouse is a classic structure, built into the logic of numerous episodes.

I can't believe it a Simpsons site

Simpsons Treehouse of Terror Halloween special

Fox Home Page for Simpsons.

Simpsons Transcripts.

Simpsons Archive.

Wednesday, December 29, 1999 01:45 p.m.

Peru:

Tuesday, December 28, 1999 11:26 a.m.

Costa Rica:

Monday, December 27, 1999 2:23 p.m.

A treehouse is more exciting with a walkway suspended between trees. The trendy walkway right now is the "rainforest canopy walkway":

Sunday, December 26, 1999 12:58 p.m.

News story links (science, handhelds, linux, wireless, net, Java, Net/Europe). ch is Switzerland.

Saturday, December 25, 1999 08:08 a.m.

Merry Christmas. Here is an entertaining bedtime story about the USS Starship Treehouse. Suitable for all ages.

Very entertaining.

Friday, December 24, 1999 01:28 p.m.

I was sitting at a beach bar with a friend. She commented that while building her vacation house, she fanatasized lying under her trees in a hammock. But now that she has it, she only uses the hammock about once per year. She spends most of her time curled up in a comfy chair in her living room, just like in NY. Asked how many of her friends actually "use" their fantasies after they get them, she answered "None."

Thursday, December 23, 1999 04:15 p.m.

A notorious bank robber had his hideout in a treehouse in Washington State.

Wednesday, December 22, 1999 11:12 a.m.

It looks like one of the standard Pitas templates, but it is all slightly wrong.

Easy - I used Paint Shop Pro. While browsing my Pitas page, I did View | PageSource and looked for the address of the background= file. Put that address in my browser and saved the GIF file on my hard drive. Opened the GIF file in PSP, increased the number of colors to 16.7 million so I could do Image | Noise (random, about 5%). Decreased the number of colors back to 256, saved it as a GIF again, uploaded it to another server and changed the background= tag to point to it. Later I added another color band and did some fine tuning, but this is the general idea.

Wednesday, December 22, 1999 11:10 a.m.

to see their view, then and click the Home link and the Styrofoam house link!

Tuesday, December 21, 1999 01:09 p.m.

Another 'building a treehouse' site, where I found this cartoon by Michael Fry:

Tuesday, December 21, 1999 01:01 p.m.

My attempt to replace an existing Pitas archived page with a newer version under the same file name failed. The Pitas server caught me: Oops. You already have a page with that name. Oh well, use a new file name instead.