TeX Live updates: vntex (Vietnamese support), subfig (multiple figures), sf298 (ANSI standards), pictex, collection of one-file macros/generic packages. Main thing is fixed up the tpm support to once again find all the files in the tree. alpha-linux build fails with true/TRUE/boolean madness, sigh. Still, getting closer to a test release.

TUGboat: did David Ignat's paper on word-to-latex conversion for a massive nuclear fusion paper he edited, and Peter Flom's nice article on inducements and barriers to getting started with LaTeX.

Been listening to Lord of the Flies, read by William Golding near the end of his life. He has a little commentary at the end of each chapter, which is fun. Got onto the book after (re)listening to Hearts in Atlantis, where the book plays a big part.