From the <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0118924/">Radio Free China</a> weblog, a discovery:  <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0118924/2003/03/23.html">web proxy by e-mail</a>.  Send an e-mail to a certain address with <code>GET &lt;url></code> in the body, and receive the page by e-mail.  Would be an easy function to implement.

--The New York Times reports on a project to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/arts/29LIBE.html?pagewanted=print" title="Protecting an Endangered Afghan Species: Books">digitize old Afghan books</a>.  A noble venture.

--The FSWE will be held on April 12<sup>th</sup>.  An entry ticket is sitting in my day-planner to remind me.  On a more specific note, I just ordered <a href="https://www.associationfulfillment.com/afsa/cat.asp" title="Inside a U.S. Embassy: How the Foreign Service Works for America, edited by Karen Krebsbach">a book</a> about what goes on in US Embassies.