CLYDE BIG PAW'S DECISION
(A Happy Halloween treat from a real ghost, Clyde Big Paws!)

THE CLYDE SEANCE - Trick or Treat? The Halloween seance began simply enough-- a small ceremony with electric hi-tech candles and Tarot cards. We were hoping Clyde would use the cards to talk to us. We also started the computer and logged onto the Internet, just in case Clyde might use THAT as a medium. He was very hi-tech, after all, and we wanted to honor him (a good idea on Halloween night!) Our dear Shaman dealt the cards; we meditated, sang "Lullabye Clyde" (with Internet accompaniment via ClydeSight2.0!, of course) and waited for a sign. At first, nothing happened. Then, the electric candles flickered and nearly went out as a warm breeze wafted though the room and we detected the faint, sweet aroma of catnip. Gert and Eddie were delighted! As the candles came back up to power, the computer became confused and started to beep and whistle, ruining the performance of the lovely lullabye. It then played its startup tone several times, and finally, the e-mail system announced: "You have mail!" Ignoring the fact that our e-mail system can't talk, we eagerly clicked on the "retrieve" button, thinking someone on the Internet was sending us a Halloween greeting. Suddenly, the entire system crashed, with the convenient error message: "Instruction in unknown format. The application has unexpectedly quit. Illegal instruction. Restart?" Since we get a lot of these, we thought it was normal, and restarted the computer. Here is where the mystery begins. When the computer rebooted (after complaining, as usual, about the "improper shut down"), there, on the desktop was a new MIDI file icon, with NO FILE NAME! Now, as everyone knows, computers HATE files with no names, and usually won't display them, or at least they complain about it and demand that they get the name "UNTITLED". So, why the computer was proudly displaying this icon, without so much as a beep, was very intriguing indeed! We started our browser with a blank page and dragged the MIDI file over the window to launch the MIDI controller (Did you know you can do that?) The MIDI controller displayed an embedded title, "Enigma.mid", and began to play the most incredible mewsic we had ever heard! Gert and Eddie ran around the room chasing their tails and chirping. Of course, they do that almost every day, so, no big deal. We wondered, did someone send us this file over the Internet just before the computer crashed? Who sent the MIDI file? How could the computer suddenly talk and say that mail had arrived? Why was there no name on the file? Why did the computer over ride its own system controls and accept a file with no name? As we pondered the beautiful mewsic, we began to recognize themes and styles, and realized, it could only have come from one place, Clyde himself! In his now infinite wisdom, from across the void on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge, sweet Clyde responded to us appropriately-- in mewsic itself, via his favorite medium, the Internet. We were so touched. And what mewsic indeed! Click hear to go to the MIDI page and listen to what Clyde, and his celestial Rainbow Orchestra told us in mewsic about his decision on the Gert and Eddie contest. Happy Halloween (after the fact) from all of us at ClydeSight2.0! "TRICK or TREAT?"