Merry Christmas, janet-
Thank you again this year for the Norad site. My
granddaughter, Bailey, is 2&1/2 years old now and loves the
computer. We tracked Santa together last night. She
believed it was the real thing, because she saw it, not on
T.V. or in the movies, but on the " 'puter". It boggles the
mind to think of what her generation is going to be able to
accomplish...
Carole
--- janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ====================
> NORAD TRACKS SANTA
> ====================
>
> The NORAD Tracks Santa Website is a combined effort of
> Analytical
> Graphics Inc. (which makes software for the aerospace
> industry), NORAD
> (the joint U.S./Canadian military organization
> responsible for
> ensuring that aircraft from places other than the North
> Pole are not
> permitted to drop packages on North American cities), and
> America
> Online (which is equally deserving of a pithy
> parenthetical remark,
> but alas -- this sentence *is* getting rather long). Pop
> over to
>
> <A href="http://www.noradsanta.org">
> http://www.noradsanta.org </A>
>
> ...and you can track the progress of the fabled flying
> fat guy as he
> makes his way around the world on Christmas Eve. NORAD
> uses their
> high-tech expertise to pinpoint not only his location,
> but how many
> cookies he's consumed on the journey.
>
> This year's Santa tracking program is the 46th conducted
> by NORAD and
> its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command.
> The tradition
> started when a department store invited kids to call a
> Santa hotline,
> but they accidentally gave out the number for CONAD's
> Operations
> Hotline. Fortunately, Colonel Harry Shoup was in the
> holiday spirit
> and children who called in were given an update on
> Santa's position.
>
> The tradition continues today on the Web, and the site is
> available in
> English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and
> Japanese. In 1999,
> approximately 10 million people visited the NORAD Tracks
> Santa site on
> Christmas Eve. This year they're expecting 100 million
> visitors!
> Sounds like it may be difficult to access the site, so if
> you get an
> error message, try again later.
>
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