Notes from Limmud and elsewhere

Well, it's nearly Limmud again, and I've still got a whole pile of notes to type up from last year's Limmud, and the Marom Beit Midrash, and the last two or three rounds of the New North London Learning programme. Before I launch myself into another frenzy of note-taking, can I do a quick straw poll: how many of you read and appreciate these notes I post?

Whilst some of them generated lively discussions, fully half of the fifteen sets of notes I've posted, received either no comment at all (four), or only a single comment by a single person (four), of which three only an "interesting" from snjstar, who is offline at present so no longer doing so.

Some people gets lots of "cool!"s in response to their blog postings; perhaps because I don't have such a large flist, I don't, and I'd like to feel the effort was appreciated. :-S

The software behind the cashier's desk

I was in the train station the other day buying a ticket (as one does in stations), and I couldn't help being amused that their ticketing application ran in a DOS box. Which is fair enough, on the principle of if it ain't broke, don't fix it, I suppose, but it looked a little odd sitting in the middle of a Windows display on a nice modern flat screen.

And today, in Barclay's Bank, I was further amused to see that their application ran in X-Window, in Unix (from the window borders, I'd say MWM) in Exceed. Perhaps Micros~1 Windows is not quite as universal as I had thought.

Notes from NNLL Autumn 2005: The Rough Guide to Jewish Europe: Toledo: the end of the west

( The Rough Guide to Jewish Europe: Toledo: The End of the West )