In other news
I read about prime numbers a bit and also about the Lucas-Lehmer test for primality of Mersenne numbers. Now I see why people who want to find record primes like to search for Mersenne primes. (EFF has a famous cash prize offered for discovering prime numbers of sufficient size. The next prize is available to a discovered of a 10,000,000 digit prize.)
Zack had some good ideas about BBC development, and Nick did some nice technical work.
I went out to Union Square at mid-day and wandered around briefly. The war and the economy don't seem to have chilled the Christmas shopping season too much, although I don't have too much experience for purposes of comparison.
I got some very nice press coverage which I might be able to talk about some day.
I was invited to the Small World Brunch; you can be more useful to that project than I can if you know someone in the Bay Area from a country other than the U.S.
My friend Katy is moving to a really neat neighborhood in San Francisco. As it happens, I know the exact block she's going to be living on, and I'm jealous! (I'm very happy with where I live now, though.)
