I can't tell you how often this has happened to me! Countless times I have thought of something and read an article about it a month later. It is a very thin line between inventing things on the cutting edge of technology and inventing something someone else is already doing. On May 19, 2004, at 8:44 AM, Matthew Brush wrote: > HAHAHA ... I actually have my own little Law for this ... I call it > Chubb's > Law (my nickname) ... I doubt it's a totally orginal idea (according > to my > Law anyway), but: > > For any idea you have (especially inventions), someone else has already > thought of it and probably made it. > > It applies to me 100%, but I guess that might say something about my > creativity :o) It's not like it stops me from coming up with ideas, > cuz > sooner or later I (hopefully) will prove my law incorrect. > > Thanks for the link to lurker, I won't bother wasting my time now, > that's > exactly what I was thinking about. > > MJ Brush > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sean A. Walberg" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:19 AM > Subject: Re: [OT:] PIClist GUI > > >> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Jake Anderson wrote: >> >>> the piclist archive already does most of this no? >>> http://techref.massmind.org/techref/index.htm >> >> I use Lurker (http://lurker.sourceforge.net/) for watching mailing >> lists. >> It threads all the discussions, and provides a page that shows the >> recently active threads. The searching and nagivation is far better >> than >> most web based archives. >> >> If you have a Linux box with a web server available, it's pretty easy >> to >> set up. >> >> Sean >> >> -- >> Sean A. Walberg http://www.ertw.com >> >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! >> email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body