No contact links on Ann Patchett's home page. May have to send her paper mail.
Not sure if the NY Times link above will generally work, may have to register with them. The essay is also the first one in the (generally quite fun) collection Eat, Memory, edited by Amanda Hesser.
Sorry for the zero-technical-content post.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!
