[geeks] OED Wins! ;^)

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Wed Nov 20 22:45:33 CST 2002


On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> $995 buys a lot of dead trees! (but hey, shipping is free!)

Hopefully I'm not the only person who'd rather have it as a relational
database than a pile of paper.  It'd be so much more useful if you could
just query the OED from any $RDBMS-compatible program.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke
  "Albert Einstein nailed space-time, but the wild thing had him stumped.
   Al, baby, two and two make five-and-a-quarter; that's why people fall
   in love." -- Thomas Dolby, "That's Why People Fall in Love"



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