-=> Quoting Sean Dennis to Nancy Backus on 11-13-08 13:11 <=-

 SD> two-the BBS and the web server (I tend to run the web server on a
 SD> seperate machine so in case the board goes down there's no break in
 SD> service for my websites). 

Makes sense.

 NB>> Understood.  Here's to a faster and complete healing... but I
 NB>> certainly can relate, as I broke my ankle in early 2005, and I still
 NB>> have to be careful of it... still limiting stairs, etc.

 SD> The weirdest part is that the other joint in the wrist hurts, not the
 SD> one I broke.  I need to go get a wrist brace today, while I'm thinking
 SD> of it, to use while I move heavy objects (like boxes of books) around. 

Probably compensation.  The body often does compensate for a hurt part
by trying to use another...  mine is a past master at it... compensates
freely and well, not at all wisely often, but always way too well... ;)
The brace is a good idea, hope you did already get it.  :)  You really
don't want to reinjure the break... or injure something else in the
process... 

 SD> I figure it'll be a few years before it's healed anywhere near
 SD> complete, but my orthopedic surgeon said it would never be completely
 SD> healed because of how bad of a break it was. 

Near-normal use may be all you (and I) will attain... but that's better
than none (or near-none) at all.

 NB>> One does indeed hope.  :)  Sufficient backwards compatibility to not
 NB>> shut out those with "legacy" equipment, and
sufficient use of newer
 NB>> technology to include those to whom such isn't even a memory... ;)
 NB>> And creative programmers to fill the gap with workable solutions.  :)

 SD> You can't say that about many things in today's world.  Heck, my new
 SD> BBS is SPITFIRE BBS running under Windows XP Professional-how's that
 SD> for a melding of the new and the old? 

True...  The bbs world always has been such a hodge-podge (said quite
lovingly, and with true appreciation, mind you) of systems and
softwares, to say nothing of the characters running and writing such,
that some cross-platform compatibility has always been built-in or at
least considered.  The hobbyist/hacker mentality of make-it-work and/or
make-do...   :)

Case in point, and ontopicizer, the great job that George Hatchew did
with writing the Bluewave doors and readers... and the subsequent mods
that he and then others did to make the doors work for many different
kinds of software and the readers for not just native-BW packets but
also for QWK.  And then the Y2K fixes by Dale and my hubby...  All of
which means that we can still be using Bluewave, despite all the changes
in the meantime both to computers and to the bbs system as a whole...

 SD> ... If a wife always laughs at her husband's jokes, is he funny or she
 SD> smart? 

Yes.    Sometimes the first, sometimes the latter, often both.  :)

ttyl      neb

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