getting setiathome to load on start up

[windos_no_thanks]

Making newbies use vi seems like unnecessary cruelty these days.
If you say:

export EDITOR=emacs

before

crontab -e

You will get a GUI editor which behaves a lot more like the M$ stuff most people are used to yet is still more powerful than vi. (emacs is also much more bloated than vi or vim but that's another issue )
Another thing: The crontab file MUST end with a newline, otherwise the last line (in this case the only one) will not be executed.