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April 2001

Remembrance of Things Past

Data's a bitch to archive and then you die.

By Simson Garfinkel

I recently cleaned out my father-in-law's safe deposit box. There wasn't much in it: just a diamond ring that hadn't been worn in more than 30 years, and two birth certificates-one for him, and one for my recently deceased mother-in-law.

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