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I need to finalize my Ottawa plans soon, if I’m going to get tickets during the current Air Canada seat sale. I should figure out what my US Thanksgiving plans are, too, but those are less urgent, since I’m going to drive. There’re still a bunch of boxes of things in my parents’ attics that I want to get, and shipping them all is pretty impractical.

I’m nearing the end of the KML truncation work, but I’ll probably put it on the back burner while Peter’s in town this weekend. Once KML truncation and cache purging are finished, InterMezzo is almost totally usable as a laptop’s main storage, assuming that you usually have a fast uplink with your fileset server. We need to make conflict detection more robust or it’ll get really annoying, but that’s minor in the big scheme of things.

I finally bought “Happiness Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch”, after I realized that I’d just been listening to Deb’s MP3s for the last two years. I’m generally unimpressed with “Spiritual Machines”, but I’ll reserve judgement until I’ve listened to it a few more times. I bought it a few weeks ago, but it sat largely ignored in my CD case until today.

I just spent the better part of an hour reading the Preface to the Third Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, along with other interesting bits of the “About the OED” section. Sometimes I wish I’d focused a little more on linguistics while I was at university.

Which reminds me, shaver still has my copy of The Language Instinct. I want that back some day.