I'm hacking on your code. You'd really hate what I've done to it. What???? My beautiful code!!!! Now it looks like for(foo = baz; bar1%(foo+bar2(foo))!= can; bar2(foo), foo -=bar1(bar2(foo++))){} How could you!!!! > Any new losses and gains in topical_net? No gains. I haven't decided whether I can continue to work with him. I noticed a sharp change in his behavior at some point. It may've been related to the fact that Marc decided to get rid of me, but maybe not. He always been a bit boring of a person but he felt like a nice guy at the beginning -- and he certainly didn't at the end. Did you start looking for something already. I have at least one headhunter whom I consider good (for me, which may not be good for you depending on your tastes). I'll start my consulting today at 3 -- hope it will go smoothly. It is 10 hours of consulting per week. They actually need some deep parsing techniques, you may be interested to learn about the stuff they do. Given that the spammers didn't call you they probably passed on me (to my relief ?). Or maybe your system knows to block calls coming from such sources. Please keep in touch! Leonid By the way, how is contracting? > robert wrote: > > How's your job search comin' along?