View from high above a neighborhood where I spent quite a lot of time between 1971 and 1981; much has changed since then.
Elsewhere: Dad’s house, which is new, is not visible – I can’t even identify his street. 2004: The source pictures have been updated, and it’s there now.
Vanessa Layne observes (in mail):
One of the significant problems in the marketplace for office automation software is that the person who uses it is almost never the person who decides to buy it. The feedback loop is never closed, the market never reacts.
Another thing I’d like to know is why I was able to run cdrecord on Red Hat 6.2 but not on 7.1 or 9.
Later: The CDR had gone bad in the interim. I replaced it with a DVD/CD burner.)
Laterer: Which seems to have gone bad in turn, within eight months.
I’m working on my first nontrivial bit of text-parsing: a little program to extract search-strings from my HTTP logs. Unfortunately (but naturally) each search-engine has its own conventions and so I may never identify all the relevant fields!
I’m using Python, though I suppose I ought to do it in Perl for practice.
Madhu had fun last week. “I love it when a plan comes together.”