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Vol. 4, No. 28

July 10, 1998

This week the office goes nuts over NASDAQ and gets serious about soccer. Read all about it after checking out what's new on the site.

THIS WEEK'S SPONSOR

Learn about exciting new avatar chat and enter to win a 3Com Palm III in the WorldsAway Contest on Tripod.

TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

On Wednesday, Tripod experienced technical difficulties brought on by a particularly nasty hardware failure. For much of the afternoon, the Web site was off-line. Normal service has resumed, and we are working with the hardware vendor to ensure that such a failure does not happen again. Please accept our deepest apologies for any inconvenience caused by the interruption of service.

On a related note, we've just finished installing a ton of new and faster machines. So not only are we back up, we're better than ever!

NEW PODS: Tripod's Member Communities

26, 43, 39 - Hike! The Football Pod.

Hear that lonesome whistle a-callin' in the Trainspotters Pod.

Who wrote Mozart's Requiem? Find out in the Trivia Lovers Pod.

NEW FEATURES

Cult of Mean: Todd Levin on TV's popular, vicious new shows.

Fear of Flying: With a little plotting, flying with baby is easy.

Diary of a Discontent: Job hunting while on the job.

Kill Your Car! How Joe Lavin came to love living without wheels.

LETTERS FROM TRIPOD

A few random words of wisdom from Software Engineer Brian Rogers.

DISCOVERING LYCOS

Check out the new AT&T; Chat N Talk, now featured in Lycos Chat area.

MEMBER TO MEMBER

Tripod member Barry Shore has a villa (!) in Naples, Florida, that he'd like to rent to other Tripod members at a specially discounted rate. Aren't Tripod members the greatest? Check it out (might take a while to download due to photos) and write to Barry if you're interested.

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Kick back, relax, and read The Funny Pages!!

Tripod Insider

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It may be that we are getting older and wiser, but I have a feeling that we've simply caught a bit of cabin fever due to the dreary weather Williamstown has had lately. Whatever the reason, the Tripod staff has begun to obsess over the stock market. We've all grown accustomed to the buzzing, beeping, and ticking noises emanating from office computers whenever a stock goes up or down -- not to mention the occasional outbursts from excited (or frustrated) investors. At least we think that's what's going on; it may just be that the tech and design boys are playing computer games again.

Soccer is the other activity on the minds of the staff these days -- specifically, the World Cup tournament. On game days, Tripod's third floor office clears out as everyone heads over to the Water Street Grill to cheer for their favorite team. Those of us who stay behind know by the looks on the faces of our co-workers how the games turn out. When Brit Senior Editor Emma Taylor returned to the office and began gravely singing "God Save the Queen" in a trembling voice, we all knew that the England-Argentina game had not gone the way she'd hoped.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to e-mail Ethan Zuckerman, Vice President, Research & Development. His mailbox is always open.

Ethan Zuckerman
VP, Research & Development
[email protected]

This has been another issue of the Tripod Insider, the weekly newsletter on what's happening at Tripod. Past issues of the Tripod Insider are also available.

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