It is May already and the Iraq war over - at least according to President Bush. Unfortunately the
slow time seems to continue within Tube and Pipe industry. The first two months of the year
were good - especially in USA but then came the Iraq war and it seems that everyone
is just waiting to see what will happen.
While there can be also other reasons than the war, but the fact is that manufacturing has been slugging, companies are concerned about
all kind of spending and American workers are still losing jobs because of excess capacity and higher productivity.
It doesn't go too good in Germany either. According to country's top economic institutes the German economy will be probaly grow only 0.5% this year and
1.8% next year, with the public sector deficit reaching 3.4% of gross domestic product this year and 2.9% next year. The unemployment rate may reach as
high as 10.4% this year. Investments are suspended and my guess is that nothing will happen before fall comes. Perhaps not even then.
SARS
So now there is also SARS problem. It is hitting especially hard to the airline and tourism industries, but naturally people are concerned
about it everywhere.
Of course the worst situation remains within Sout-East Asia. According to World Bank the economic growth within Sout-East Asia's will slow by
about one percentage point from last year's as SARS cuts tourism and hurts commerce.
Now there is lots of uncertainty in the world and it effects to the Tube and Pipe Industry also. I wish I would have the crystal ball
to see how long we still need to wait before the better times will return. The positive matter that I have seen is that the traffic
at TubeNet has been pretty good still and the rate of enquiries keeps high as normal.
#!/usr/bin/perl
##############################################################################
# SSI Random Image Displayer Version 1.2 #
# Copyright 1996 Matt Wright mattw@scriptarchive.com #
# Created 7/1/95 Last Modified 11/4/95 #
# Scripts Archive at: http://www.scriptarchive.com/ #
##############################################################################
# COPYRIGHT NOTICE #
# Copyright 1996 Matthew M. Wright All Rights Reserved. #
# #
# SSI Random Image may be used and modified free of charge by anyone so #
# long as this copyright notice and the comments above remain intact. By #
# using this this code you agree to indemnify Matthew M. Wright from any #
# liability that might arise from it's use. #
# #
# Selling the code for this program without prior written consent is #
# expressly forbidden. In other words, please ask first before you try and #
# make money off of my program. #
# #
# Obtain permission before redistributing this software over the Internet or #
# in any other medium. In all cases copyright and header must remain intact.#
##############################################################################
# Define Variables
$basedir = "http://www.tubenet.org.uk/";
@images = ("cnc2.jpg","o+h.jpg","u_tube2.gif","arc4.jpg","fabtechmies.gif","emmedi_art14.gif","rauta.gif" );
@urls = (
"http://www.tubenet.org.uk/cgi/redirect.pl?http://www.nissin-precision.com/english\" target=\"_blank\"",
"http://www.tubenet.org.uk/cgi/redirect.pl?http://www.ott-heugel.de\" target=\"_blank\"",
"http://www.tubenet.org.uk/cgi/redirect.pl?http://www.utube.com\" target=\"_blank\"",
"http://www.tubenet.org.uk/cgi/redirect.pl?http://www.arcmachines.com\" target=\"_blank\"",
"http://www.tubenet.org.uk/cgi/redirect.pl?http://www.t-drill.fi\" target=\"_blank\"",
"http://www.tubenet.org.uk/cgi/redirect.pl?http://www.emmedi.it\" target=\"_blank\"",
"http://www.tubenet.org.uk/cgi/redirect.pl?http://www.rautaruukki.com\" target=\"_blank\""
);
@alt = (
"Nissin Precision",
"OTT-Heugel",
"Universal Tube and Rollform",
"ARC Machines",
"T-DRILL",
"Emmedi",
"Rautaruukki",
);
##############################################################################
# Options
$uselog = "0"; # 1 = YES; 0 = NO
$logfile = "/path/to/log/file";
$date = `/usr/bin/date`; chop($date);
$link_image = "1"; # 1 = YES; 0 = NO
$align = "middle";
$border = "0";
# Done
##############################################################################
srand(time ^ $$);
$num = rand(@images); # Pick a Random Number
# Print Out Header With Random Filename and Base Directory
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
if ($link_image eq '1' && $urls[$num] ne "") {
print "";
}
print "";
if ($link_image eq '1' && $urls[$num] ne "") {
print "";
}
print "\n";
# If You want a log, we add to it here.
if ($uselog eq '1') {
open(LOG, ">>$logfile");
print LOG "$images[$num] - $date - $ENV{'REMOTE_HOST'}\n";
close(LOG);
}
Global: 