I actually start tomorrow at MyFamily.com, not today. (They’ve got to find a machine for me.) The work there is tremendously exciting — especially the XML stuff. I’m going to soak myself in XML today, and I think I’m also going to read the Gentech spec.

The Project Gutenberg Software Site will be going live within the next few days. It has changed a lot from the original vision, but it should be fairly useful, I think.

I spent the afternoon reading the XML Black Book (published by Coriolis). I meant to read the Gentech spec, but that didn’t happen. (I’ve plenty of time to read it, though, so no big rush there.) I haven’t done any work on The Ball and the Cross or the Icelandic primer for the last couple of days. But I suppose I have all summer…

I finished reading Anne of Avonlea this evening. Splendid book. At this rate I can certainly finish the whole series before I leave. They’re technically “juvenile” books, but that label doesn’t really mean a whole lot. In “On Stories,” C.S. Lewis said, “It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.” And in “Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said” he wrote, “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty — except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all.” Amen, wholeheartedly.