Very puzzling mail today:

Dear Anton,
I see you have added your self (or more specifically a link to your website) to my start up menu of my Microsoft XP. Very clever. [ . . . ]

Of course I know nothing about Windows configuration, and said so. My correspondent decided then that she must have clicked something without knowing it, as surely we’ve all done.

I saw a Segway today in person for the first time, going up Bush Street in San Francisco, on the sidewalk because the street itself runs the other way.

I dropped in to a computer store today to price flat monitors. They’ve come down more than I thought. I might even buy one this year – if I get a job.

The houseguest said something about “a reasonable facsimile of caffeine” and naturally I thought: what do you get if you replace a C in a caffeine molecule with Si?

Lent began Wednesday; as Rebecca so wisely observes, what’s a Catholic occasion without an Irish joke?

Regular readers can skip over most of this entry; nothing here that I haven’t said before.
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I never hear the US debt limit mentioned except in the context of raising it. Why have a limit at all, if whenever it is approached Congress routinely raises it? I notice that it is already higher than the trigger of the “Ultimatum Resolution” that was going around State legislatures a decade ago.

Remember what happened ten years ago?