On Sunday 19 January 2003 07:24, Michael Everson wrote:

>I would imagine that the use Mayan numbers on house decorations

would be a little similar to the occasional use of Ogham in public
in Ireland. [...]

It should have occurred to me sooner, but your image finally made me
realize that the coding scheme of Ogham is simple, thus requiring
more marks than a different, more-sophisticated system. However,
simpler codings are more accessible to future scholars.
[...]

>(http://www.wundermoosen.com) have a marvellous little utility

called Calendar X which calculates everything in all the calendars
including the Mayan one, using Mayan glyphs too. I suppose that the
world should have a big party on 21 December 2012 when the current
Great Circle ticks over to the next one....

Aha! Another date for The End Of The World As We Know It. Comfort to
the terribly-disappointed millennialists.

A while back, I came across a little Wintel application, a Chinese
clock, which displayed hours, minutes, and seconds using
traditional Chinese numbers, vertically, top down, at the edge of
the screen. Was fascinating to watch, not the least because there
were no zeros, so the lower numerals jumped up and down.

[OT] Unfortunately, I lost track of it when a rogue Web site cut off
access to my C: partition, and I was neither clever nor patient
enough to regain access. The usual recovery tools were of little
help.

[OT] (protecting data)
For Wintel* people, I heartily recommend keeping as much Good Stuff
as you can, on another partition besides your C:\. partition.
Defragment, and create a new partition in the remaining empty
space. It's only moderately technical; nevertheless, you might want
the help of a computer person who knows what [s]he is doing. The
first time you create another partition is somewhat akin to the
first time you go online; irrational fears may develop.
As well, writable CDs and CD-RW drives are no longer costly; backing
up to writable CDs makes a great deal of sense.
*M$ Windows on Intel-compatible machines

The millenium began 1 Jan. 2000
The millennium began 1 Jan. 2001
[End OT]

Seshat, please feel totally free to tell me, if it's worth your
trouble, whether this previous advice is a no-no. I was careful to
label it.

Regards/Con mis recuerdos/Mvh/MfG/Mvg

-- Nicholas Bodley |@| Waltham, Mass.
-- Sent using KMail with Mandrake Linux 9.0 --
who has 9 active partitions and about 10 unassigned regions
Soon to be on Speakeasy DSL, with any luck