U P D A T E S 7 January 2009 to Present The first Updates 1 from March 1997 to October 2001 are archived here. Updates 2 from January 2002 to December 2004 are archived here. Updates 3 from January to October 2005 are archived here. Updates 4 from January to December 2006 are archived here. Updates 5 from January to December 2007 are archived here. Updates 6 from January to December 2008 are archived here. Additions - Changes - Latest Information For the latest entry (8 April 2010), click here. 1 January 2009 A new year is beginning, but no good news. This is my final "Updates." 5 January 2009 On 5 January 2009, Joe Eskenazi of the SF Weekly (San Francisco) interviewed me about the currently popular term of abuse "douchebag." His article, "How 'douchebag' became everyone's favorite insult," is archived here. 9 September 2009 Is it September already? How fuckin' tempus fugit. No news. No Facebook, no LinkedIn, no MySpace, no Reunion, no Twitter, no bloody blog. 23 December 2009 Happy New Year to you too. 8 April 2010 How about buying a book or two? I still have zillions of very valuable volumes left! Back to Top of Page Go back to Updates 6 (2008)