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Got this email from someone who works with me regarding a Word document. This is a direct copy & paste ...

I detached the document sent to me by XXXXX in the hope of making some changes. However, in the present format, I am not able to do this without a very powerful microscope. The document is only readable after I print it. I tried making changes by hand, but there is not enough space and it is too time consuming. I would like to give my input and try to coordinate my brief version for the consumer with your detailed version for the workers. However, I would need to have the pages sent to me separately for editing. Let me know if this can be done.
--Beau
As the resident (?) Brit, albeit not one who lives in London, I suppose a few words wouldn't hurt (and you're going to get them anyway!)
Basically, it's stiff upper lip city. Within hours Londoners of my acquaintance were complaining about the lack of transport and (what else) the weather. It was raining.
I know a few people in London and I felt a bit sick with nerves until I knew they were okay, but as my mother says bad news travels much faster than good, so I would have heard if anything had happened.
Many of the aforementioned Londoners are of course used to all this sort of thing from years of IRA bomb threats. Of course, it's terrible and very disturbing, but people are just getting grimly on with business.
To sum up: not terrorised, not panicking. What else is new?
--Catherine
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2005.07.08
Very strange dream last night...there's some kind of 2-bus tour group travelling around the USA with the pope, and I'm on it...except I'm one of a small group who has to stop the three suicide bombers. The good guys have some kind of x-ray to see the vests of explosives the three are wearing....and one of the three is my girlfriend from high school, "Randi". (In the dream I ask if she still goes by that name like she did in high school, rather than her given name, which caused everyone to do a bad Sting impression and tell her that she don't have to put out the red light.) The funny thing is, at one point I don't even need the X-ray information to know she's one of the bombers, her tanktop is riding a little low in front and I can see the blue roll-of-coins-like explosives right there. I remember trying to think of a way of stopping them without having to take the blast myself.

Idea of the Moment
I've been stuck at my current weight for way too long...I had an increase around the holiday season of 2003 and I'm cruising at about 20 pounds more than I had been for some years before that. I'm thinking about seeing if bribing myself works; I've been on the fence about getting a new PC, so maybe I can say "lose 10 pounds and you get to buy the PC, lose the next 20 and we'll think of something more". I dunno, can that work? Along side my mantra of "I'm just tired of being this heavy".

Geekery of the Moment
They said it couldn't be done...they said it shouldn't be done...but Fred Quimby is starting work on a BASIC compiler for the Atari 2600...it takes programs written in a very specific subset of BASIC and converts it into the assembly code needed to make a game that can run on an actual Atari. I'm trying to figure out how I can help this effort...to make truly impressive games you need to work at lower levels, but this idea has a ton of potential, helping newbies get started and all that.

UPDDATE: Actually I've started making the Semi-Official Batari BASIC homepage...check it out!