I've been busy lately trying to figure if a certain application can integrate with another application running with the current version of Office under a future version of Windows, which may or may not support a certain version of database software. Late yesterday I figured out it may be possible, and now I just have to attend to innumerable details.

In the meantime, I haven't come across anything compelling on the web, and I've been reading Hugh Thomas's history of the early Spanish empire (entertaining, but with errors) and Bernard Lewis's story of Hassan i Sabbah's assassins (not as entertaining as Peter Lamborn Wilson's, yet more factual, but could also do with fact checking, and this isn't even an area I specialize in). The more you know, the less you end up believing what you read. But mainly I've been getting through the day by listening to Speed Merengue.

And in the meantime the munchkins have been typing Jean Beaufret's account of an afternoon spent with Heidegger and René Char, for pocket money, I've received another Giorgio Agamben, publishers have promised three more books for review are on their way, and I have some interesting leads on Heidegger's comments on the laws of science.  ¶ 9:00 PM