Okay, just got back to MI (where I was born/raised) from visiting friend in NYC for a week, a trip which followed closely on the return from 6 weeks in europe/mideast: 2.5 weeks in europe burying my dad (er, his ashes) (in Norway, where he was born 76 years ago) (in his father's grave, by an old wooden church in Mosjoen) and hanging out with mom and sven (my younger brother (20 v. 22 for me), only sibling, and constant reference when I wish to specify a ``typical american boy'' (or pretender to that title)), preceded by 3.5 weeks in yistrael and tu"rkiye. Tip: the mideast is not a good place to spend your summer. In fact, switzerland was full of rich arabs (mostly saudis) escaping the heat. I also developed a new appreciation for the miracle of air-conditioning.

So vacation was hot, hot, kinda dull (old rocks don't do it for me anymore -- petra and kapadokya were okay, but not as spectacular as one might hope) (though nature was pretty at kapadokya and in wadi rum), and really lonely. Which was followed by: squirm under mom's thumb, be kept up at night by sven watching bad movies on tv (what he gets out of his fourth viewing of The Substitute that he didn't get from the second is beyond me), desperately looking for real food and internet access (the former consisting of vietnamese in Oslo and south asian in London, the former mostly for email and jabber to communicate with eunice (the person whom I was to visit in NYC, and who is deaf, so e-communicating is a must (and cheaper than international phone rates anyways)), and reading The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) in the British countryside (i.e., sticks).

Mozilla M17 is really nice, and I'm using it now. If you haven't used it in a few months, give it another look.

Now to get back to work on improving GTK's menus (menu navigation, then overlong menus/menu scrolling).