One of the odd side-effects of having owned and used my own domain for a *long* time now is that I wind up with an interesting and sometimes annoying view into the world of Spam. I've had waks.org for well over 20 years, and I used it as my primary email for much of that, as did Jane ( Read more... )

(No real content, at least yet -- just marking the date in my head...)

The releases have been signed, and the checks have been written to the Heirs At Law. After exactly three and a half years, the end is *finally* in sight on settling Jane's estate, knock on wood ( Read more... )

I'm currently boxing up the books I didn't sell, and still making finds ( Read more... )

I'm starting to seriously clear the house. It is *full* of boxes and papers and cruft, and I am beginning to realize that, if I'm going to actually list it in March, I need to get cracking on clearing stuff. So today's focus is going through miscellanea and making the fast separation: Keep, Discard, or Hold Onto For Further Study. And there's ( Read more... )

Going through all the books has turned up a lot of interesting reading matter, but it's also turned up the occasional surprise that just happened to be sitting on the bookshelves. Possibly the most surprising is material indicating that Jane's mother Catherine had learned how to use a computer -- in 1959 ( Read more... )

X minus about two weeks, and I am still culling at high speed ( Read more... )

And in the meantime, I'm pressing ahead with the cull for the Great Book Sale on Sept 29/30. Just to keep everyone's attention (and encourage more people to come buy books), here's an update: the cookbooks have been culled, and I've pulled out four full boxes of them for the sale ( Read more... )

So as I've mentioned before, my current programming project is the OP Compiler: taking the existing Order of Precedence and taming it with code, so that it can get fed into a nice, neat, vastly easier-to-maintain database going forward. I figured it would be a meaty but reasonably straightforward project -- after all, Caitlin was inhumanly good ( Read more... )

Mostly dealing with digging through SCA files and such at the moment: they consume a *lot* of the library, but for now are immune to the purge. (Eventually I'll have to get serious about "I'm not their archivist. Any more. Not officially.", but for now they're just in the way ( Read more... )