I've been back from my trip since Sunday afternoon, and have finally caught back up to everything (ie, email) today.

It is hotter today in the Valley than it was at any time during my vacation on the (mostly treeless) Outer Banks islands off the coast of North Carolina. Very strange. I wish I were floating in Oakrakoke inlet again, instead I'm facing a scorching walk home.

I spent some time today fixing splitvt so it does not need to be suid root. Given its security history, that is good preventive medicine. I also got DWN out, and I received a very garbled call phone call from Seth who wanted some details about Debian's non-free archive. I hope I answered that satisfactorally despite the bad connection.