I wish I had more time or read faster, or both! I’ve been working on some of the following:

• Gross, Benedict H., 1950- Magic of numbers / Benedict Gross, Joe Harris. QA39.3 .G76 2004
• Ruchlis, Hyman. Story of mathematics; geometry for the young Scientist, by Hy Ruchlis and Jack Engelhardt. Illustrated with photos and drawings by Frank Angelini. QA40.5 .R8
• Diggins, Julia E. String, straightedge, and shadow; the story of geometry [by] Julia E. Diggins. Illustrated by Corydon Bell. QA40.5 .D5
• Petzold, Charles, 1953- Code : the hidden language of computer hardware and software / Charles Petzold. QA76.6 .P495 1999
• Bell, R. C. (Robert Charles), 1917- Board games round the world : a resource book for mathematical investigations / Robbie Bell and Michael Cornelius. QA20.G35 B45 1988
• Tieger, Paul D. Do what you are : discover the perfect career for you through the secrets of personality type / Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger. BF698.9.O3 T54 2001

I’ve lost my old posts. But I’ve got a backup of the posts table, so I can restore the entries at some point.

http://www.nobleorder.org/ht_boffer_sword.htm is a good set of instructions for making round noodle sword.

http://home.clara.net/arianrhod/Aldebaran/DoItYourself/index.html shows how to make realistic-looking latex sword.

And the wikipedia entry for LARP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game

JR has just finished Eldest, and I’m looking for new titles to satisfy his reading appetite.

ALA has a list of recommendations for fans of Harry Potter. That pointed me to Dragonsinger, by Anne McCaffrey. It sounds interesting, and I like that its protagonist is a young woman.

a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0689860439/”>Sea of Trolls , by Nancy Farmer, looks interesting, with some reasonably thoughtful reviews.

http://ohmygods.timerift.net/ is a pagan-themed web comic. Hasn’t been a new stip in a while…

http://www.theoi.com/Kronos/Panes.html lists some details of the children of Pan, Hermes and Zeus.

I spent much of the past several days trying to reconstruct our Ad test environment. I started on the same machine used previously, then Greg suggested using vmware. Yesterday, Erik called to walk me through some tests, and we used the production environment. We were able to achieve the resolution we’ve been trying to get.

• Research formatting of Word merge fields ( fp 14395 )
• Discussion of automated deployment of servers using unattended
• Discussion with nogrizov, xma and voicemail for lstewart regarding expiration of nine-month employees’ accounts
• More on Word merge fields
• Service call to dstern regarding an access database application ( fp 13971 )

• Installed and tested canon print accounting function
• Emailed Ikon re network port usage
• Prepared test system for unattended installs
• Responded to rryan re off-site access to ODBC data sources
• Created XP+SP2 CD