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View 149 April 16 - 22, 2001

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Monday  April 16, 2001

A Taxing Day

Have done the taxes and mailed them in. 

Tomorrow we leave for Paris for a week. During that time there won't be much up here. There was a lot last week, in mail, and in view as well. I will have a good bit more in today's mail as I try to catch up with back mail.

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http://www.ttgnet.com/rbt/thisweek.html which is Robert Thompson's web site. He will be looking out for my site and email while I am gone.

 

In the column posted today I seem to have referred to Strunk and White's excellent book at Stunk and White. The context makes it clear that this was a typographical error that I should have caught, and I have notified the BYTE staff. Clearly I intended no disrespect for what I consider an indispensable book.

Niven has managed to injure himself rather severely: not life threatening unless losing the ability to hike is that, and it takes time to veg out. They may be able to fix him. I sure hope so. I am hardly giving away secrets here, since everyone in NorWesCon knows what happened.

An intriguing site:

http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/apr01/sandall.htm which I actually saw and read, but now it appears to be gone. Perhaps it will come back.

http://www.newcriterion.com/

certainly works.

And now this:

The virus is W32.Badtrans.13312@mm, SARC warning is here:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/pf/w32.badtrans.13312@mm.html 

I know of at least one infection among relatively savvy users.

 

 

 

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Tuesday, April 17, 2001

I will be gone until well into next week. Alex will be here with Sasha, all is well, and I have a full time house sitter. We'll be overseas and I am forbidden to try to access the web while there.

Stay well.

So the Internet is like glue as I try to post this. Why not?

 

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Off To Paris

 

 

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With any luck I am at Napoleon's Tomb

 

 

 

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At the Louvre and at Opera Bastille

 

 

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Dinner with Norman Spinrad, and wandering about

 

 

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I was gone to Paris all week. At the Louvre today.

 

 

 

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