Rumours of my disappearance from the internet are greatly exaggerated. Though an unfortunate series of events, juxtaposed in time, might have fooled the casual observer: the announcement of the read-only nature of advogato coincided neatly with my alma mater's discovery that I was no longer entitled to an e-mail address. Sorting out the e-mail thing took priority, so it was a pleasant surprise that when I started investigating the web diary situation I was informed that advogato was saved; thanks to all responsible for that.

Lisp stuff continues apace. SBCL is planning to release something called “version 1.0” next month; it would be nice if I could land my dangerously experimental branches before then, so that all the extra users of something blessed as version 1.0 can find the bugs for me. There will be a Lisp Conference in Cambridge next year, and I should probably aim to get my act together and submit something there (and so should you!).

(Work stuff continues too. Lisp is beginning to entrench itself there; ironically, I'm probably the researcher who uses Lisp least in the group that I work in – apart from providing technical support, of course. This will pass, eventually.)