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A reader pointed out back in January 1997 that it would be nice to have an index to the columns arranged by the date on which they were originally posted, so that if one were not able to visit these pages for a week or two owing to serious illness or imprisonment in a foreign land (the only acceptable excuses, by the way, verified by a note from the relevant authority in either case, of course), one might be able to catch up all at once, rather than taxing one's noggin trying to remember which nuggets of deathless prose herein one had, as it were, already read. Y'know, I really like that sentence. Anyway, it was a good idea. Unfortunately, after giving the matter some thought, I realized that it was impractical* for me to index batches of columns that had already been posted at that point. Just recently, however, an alert and industrious reader, Deven T. Corzine, took the time to write a script to index all those "lost" issues for us. Unfortunately, I have no record of exactly when these issues were posted to the web (although they definitely date to 1995 and 1996), so the best we can do at this point is to label them "Posted 1st," etc. * Because I am lazy. |