"Looking back, Christoforo is still a little shocked that what he thought would remain a private email conversation got blown into an Internet event the way it did." This show a blinding misunderstanding of the Internet. I always act/write/post/upload and assume anything i send to anyone could end up in the faces of the planet. To not do so invites this kind of idiocy. The measure of the man is that he acted the way he did because he thought he was acting 'in secret'. People who act this way are not the kind of people I trust to work with me reliably.

CFL bulbs themselves, in the way their ballasts operate, send strange EMF spiky behavior throughout the electrical system they are attached to, i.e. , the school building. Supposedly, they are horrible for people. Wireless routers, no effect by comparison.

Utopias is, at 24%, about the highest you can get with yeast fermentation - they use a very specially bred super-strain of yeast with very high alcohol tolerance... most yeast quit somewhere between 9 and 15%, up to about 17% for some champagne yeasts. Utopias is surprisingly good (I tasted it at the Great American Beer Festival) - a port-like beer, if you will. I do not think it is worth the asking price of $100 a bottle, though. I completely agree that any form of distillation causes beer to stop being beer, as well.

As far as I can tell, email distribution lists and automated rules for re-sending email after receiving them from an email list is also covered under the claims in this patent. How did the patent examiners fail to see this?

This looks really good, I'd definitely have gotten this book if it existed back when I had to learn all this stuff starting in 1997-2000.

I used the first ed years ago, and sure enough, Unicode, OTF, anf PDF dominate my world now. The only thing that is complicated enough to need additional exposition would be Arabic, with it's ability to not only combine RTL and LTR text (Hebrew does as well) but has to be shaped contextually.

Wonder if they get into trouble with Nintendo.

I always liked that poem... Eliot is freaking brilliant. "Let us go then, you and I / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherised upon a table..." I do vastly prefer "The Four Quartets" tho, particularly Burnt Norton.

My best friend in high school liked Prufrock so much, he memorized the entire poem (1100 words) for the fun of it.