All this talk of the MAPS v ORBS snafu has me wondering if I should attempt to polish up and release my own spam-fighting work. I bet lots of people could benefit from one-time email addresses and language analysis software that can recognize spam.
The VA folks say that they've been approved to give me a tape drive; hopefully these VXA drives are nearly as nifty as all the hype would have you think.
Last night I constructed a DocBook skeleton for HOWTO (or other) authors. It features index building, raster graphics support, and html, pdf, ps, and txt output, all built from a generic Makefile. This makes life much easier; the DocBook tools take even more voodoo incantations than LaTeX does to build a nontrivial project. I also figured out most of the formatting bugs in my own HOWTO; there seem to be a number of subtle quirks in the DSSSL for the tex backend.
Berry-picking is apparently on for the weekend. Hopefully I can talk Kelley into a constructing a blueberry pie.