As to OS/2, there has not been any pertinent news related to the operating system in quite some time, be it from IBM or any other vendor. During September, I made a futile attempt at creating the IBM Web Browser for OS/2 (the documentation was horrible). As you can tell from the What's New? section, I've been cleaning up the Web Sites section of our publication. Alas, we keep losing more and more OS/2 related vendors.
The one bright spot has been our Discussion Groups section which has been particularly active lately with OS/2 users helping each other with technical problems. I personally want to thank those of you who offered advice on some of the problems I was experiencing. It is very rewarding to see how well the members of this group help each other. Fortunately, we haven't had too many nuts join the group trying to sell anything or use profanity. We have had mostly professional advice with a touch of humor.
The big news, obviously, has been the terrorist attacks on America, a tragic reminder of the price of freedom. I am not going to make any long winded patriotic speech along these lines, enough of this has already surfaced on the Internet. We all know the score and we all know what has to be done. There is one song that keeps going through my head as I think about the impending conflict, "Over There" by George M. Cohan written back in 1917 as the United States entered World War I. For some reason, I thinks it is as appropriate today as it was then:
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