The rains are falling as I write this - more so than in the rainy season which remains tagged to a date rather than a season. I am sure you will be impressed - you can see the threaded topics being discussed, you can post to the group, or you can look down at the bottom of the screen and find out about Linux and Python that have been used to make this possible. At our last meeting Mike Kato, who had been to the show the previous day, told us that the big news was Windows 98.
Digital cameras are still hot.
How slim the notebooks are getting. Good to hear about cameras and notebooks as I am looking around myself. If you didn't make it to the show yourself and want to read more comments about the show you will have to check the newsgroups to see the rest of the observations. Thanks to the generosity of Ken Cotton, the TPC news and mail server has had a permanent connection to the Internet for a year now. Looking at the statistics from last July, it looks like we then had 4 or 5 regular news readers.