----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Silverberg" <barisil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Barry's First Message in a Long Time Dear ETNI readers Hi! Hot isn't it!? Going out for vacation? and other small talk, to fill up the embarrassing silence created by the fact that I haven't written to you in ages. On the desk to the left of my computer (which, as of Thursday, is finally working at a normal speed after the technician took out a piece of superfluous virus killing software he put in by mistake 4 months ago), are the notes I made from the TRULY WONDERFUL ETAI CONFERENCE last July. Somehow six weeks have passed, and it's a little chagrinning to write now how helpful and hard working the converners were and the usual sort of gushing praise that one is supposed to post right away, if not on the way home. One of the great things about the ETAI conference was meeting so many of you, readers who usually lurk beneath the surface, Face to Face, so it's a good thing I washed mine first, and hearing all your wonderflul supportive comments. This gave a joyous uplift to the mundane brasiere of my existence. So ETAI is already far in the past. I still hope, truly, to get my presentations up on the site and go over the notes I took from the lectures I liked, so as to assimilate some things I learned before September 1 rolls around, crushing everythng in its path. This is really going to be too long for just a letter, so I'll have industrious David put it up on the ETNI column, and sign off for now. If you don't hear from me in the next few days, I'll be with the family on the Kinneret, right around where all those fish were poisoned last week. Continue to enjoy the summer. Barry ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------