Five things make a post

[sawyl]

Picking things at random, today I:

• got a slightly belated and completely unexpected extra birthday present
• finished Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates, novel 106 for those keeping count
• discovered that Victor Hely Hutchinson created a Handelian pastiche of Old Mother Hubbard.
• learnt that even if Dickens didn't create Christmas, he certainly helped to reinvent it
• found that LoadLeveler multicluster only seems to work if the initial directories of the jobs are mounted on the inbound scheduler nodes