Hank Paulson, who I had assumed to be a fairly well-educated man, said yesterday the US economy is in a "downcline". This is rather conturbing information, and a matter of real discern. We must keep our crongers fissed that it does not become a more serious deturn, I suppose.

Thinking about that stupid word make me regret recently coining the term "deducerator" for C++ functions such as std::back_inserter and std::make_pair. Although it was suggested as a joke, I do think it's more memorable than Object Generator, or the less specific "creator function" used by Matthew Wilson in his books. I think functional languages call them constructors, but that would obviously be confusing in C++.

jtauber, that's due to GNU bash. Bash remembers that you changed dir via the symlink, and preserves that information in your pwd, which is why bash's pwd command has a -P option to see the physical pwd, not symbolic one.