By Jeff Harding
It’s best to not mess with magic. Remember Disney’s Fantasia where Mickey Mouse plays the sorcerer’s apprentice? Mickey is given the chore to wash the castle floor but sneaks a peek at the sorcerer’s great book of magic and casts a spell on the broom which hauls buckets of water and swabs the floor for him. Mickey falls asleep and the broom does his chores too well and starts to flood the castle. Mickey wakes up in a panic can’t figure out how to stop the broom. He chops it into pieces but each little piece comes back as a broom with more buckets of water and the castle is flooding. They keep coming and coming and coming and the water rises until the sorcerer reappears and with a waive of his wand, everything is normal again.
That’s how yours truly felt yesterday when I sent the onslaught of e-mails to you from another blog. Once the 
deed was done, the commands go to the server and you can’t stop it. So you just watch in frustration as the foul deed plays out. My e-mail program (Mailpress) which embeds in my WordPress blogging software isn’t that difficult but together they can do some weird things … if you don’t know what you are doing.
I apologize for the inconvenience. I’ll try to not mess with the dark arts again. Most of you have been very patient and I appreciate it. I only lost one e-mail subscriber over this.
By the way, Fantasia is my favorite Disney movie. The animation is wonderful, the music is fabulous, and the acting is great, especially by Mickey in the “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” segment as he interprets the famous Goethe poem to Paul Dukas’ music.
