Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.

Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.

The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.

Gateway implied fairly strongly at the analyst meeting that HP is a much weaker operator than they are, and that's possible,

Life is a tightrope to keep your balance you have to keep on going. If you fall off it is game over.Gary F Evans...

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.