In real life, there are always exceptions. These were all articulate and caring high-level reviews, which really help put the current text into sharp perspective from the reader point of view. Just what I needed for the final push to submission. Anyway, it ended up being very late, suddenly, and I find that I have little comment left for the day, which was mostly spent in some catch-up reading when I had time for the computer. Next is to enforce a more disciplined schedule for the editing work that starts tomorrow.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Another great day. In fact we had dinner outdoors, despite the sun no longer fully on the patio. I've noticed a number of discussions of privacy, or rather lack of, on various US-centric forums lately. Living in the kind of society I do, with long-established, centralized registries and supposedly secure guarantees that such information won't be misused, I can't say that any of such discussions brings up anything new. And just to spice things a little, police or other authorities have this recurring habit of faxing sensitive personal information to incorrect phone numbers from time to time.