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This may be old news, but I heard today that Oprah Winfrey picked, for the Oprah Book Club, Anna Karenina . My first reaction was What, is she trying to weed out the weak ones? I say this only because, when I read it seven years ago, it took me six months to get through it.

For a good time, read the customer comments at the bottom of the page. For an even better time, count how many don't actually talk about the book.

So here I am with a new look and feel. Still ironing out the bugs. The worst one is an IE 6 quirk which doesn't precisely render 70% and 30%, thus sending the navigation down to the bottom of the page, below the content. Also, IE6 has a problem rendering the page if I have in-line images within the content. Basically, IE6 can bite me. So can any other browser which renders in a manner inconsistent with Mozilla.

I returned Flash Math Creativity. Everything in it can be found on line, and I felt the $50.00 could be better spent. SO yesterday I picked up The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins and A Writer's Diary: 1873-1876 , volume 1 of a two-volume set of the writings of Dostoevsky. I picked up the Dawkins because, as I was thumbing through it, I found screen-shots of the Biomorph artificial evolution simulator. I spent hours playing with the thing a year ago. And again just now.

In other news I am, for the first time in my life, watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer.