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> "Joe Horowitz" <jh007c3183NOSPAM@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:af6vn4$c0af4$1@ID-146919.news.dfncis.de...
> > "Michael Cunningham" <superman@uksf.org.xspamblockx.uk> wrote in message
> > news:ubCR8.3281$vB.19862@news.indigo.ie...
> > > "Matt Sephton" <matt@ewtoo.org> wrote in message 
> > > news:162bbc2c.0206240127.20ebc748@posting.google.com...
> > > > If anybody knows who is responsible for this touch of genius, please
> > > > get in touch or reply to this thread.
> > >
> > > Vicky Conlan does all of that stuff, afaik.
> >
> > I'm not sure I'll ever really adjust to the "unsung hero" role, tbh.
> > I don't want to take anything away from Vicky's excellent football drawings,
> > she's the best around and no doubt about it. But, they're only crayon
> > sketches on scraps of paper when she gives them to me.
> >
> > They don't programme themselves onto the website, if you know what I mean.
> > How about a little credit over here?
>
> FFS, Joe, stop showing off.  We all know you know more about
> computers and the Internet than the rest of us put together but
> modesty isn't such a bad thing.  Your thesis on Cisco was stunning,
> your study on the advantages of Java was enlightening and your
> work on developing the Hinternet has almost certainly clinched you
> your first Pulitzer, but give it a rest, eh?

I'm sorry, Mikey, I didn't mean to come across as a big-head. It's just hard
sometimes, when you know so much about something and have done so much to
advance a field of human endeavour, yet are very rarely given any sort of
credit for it. You said yourself, "your first pulitzer". I've been writing
ground-breaking thesiseses on the internet for over ten years now, and much
of my work has formed the basis of the whole Microsoft Information
Technology Plan, yet this year is the first time I've even been
_shortlisted_ for the pulitzer. How do you figure?

Of course, I don't mind that so much in itself, (after all I've practically
retired on it so who cares), but when I've been working into the early hours
of every morning for the _whole_ of June, somehow making sense of what
basically amounts to a bunch of child-like abstract scribblings meant to
portray passages of play in recent world cup matches yet drawn by someone
who doesn't even watch the sodding games, ffs, preferring instead to "_feel_
the goals through the power of positive spiritual channelling" (whatever the
hell that means) and draw them on restaurant serviettes and post-it notes in
crayon, with her eyes closed, and when I've meticulously programmed them
onto a web-page pixel by pixel complete with explanatory text, and no-one
even _mentions_ my contribution, you can see how I might start to feel a
little unappreciated.

It's all "Vicky's Fabulous Football Drawings" and "She's the greatest!" and
all that. Again, I don't dispute any of that, I really think she is and
that's why I do it, it'd just be nice if _someone_ noticed the hard work I
put in to bring Vicky's incredible vision to life.

Go and have a look at the BBC site now. Go on, have a good look around. I
guarantee you will not find one single mention of my name on the whole
thing. Mark Lawrenson's name's all over the bloody place, oh yes, but do you
think _he_ could compress a seventy-two frame segment of high resolution
animation into simple line drawing?

I doubt it.

Joe
--
"Did you miss a digit off Joe's score?"