The latest chapter of the online novel at http://SocialTechNovel.SocialTechnology.ca/ is about how expansion of Social Tech High was continuing, then abruptly halted when the idea of increasing the size of the pool of candidates by going global came out. A lot of money would be required to provide generous scholarships for international students, but this was available from the eccentric major donor.
On the software development blog at Software Development I reported on some work done today to simplify the reading of SAS catalog files, and commented on what I had learned about using the Python Bitarray package. — dpw
