2 pm. I have finished reading The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and have returned from the Chapters bookstore.

First the books. I am now three books richer and a few dollars poorer. A fair trade. First the books:

• HTML The Definitive Guide by Chuck Musciano & Bill Kennedy published by O'Reilly. This was recommended by Raymond near the very end of his book. I often pay attention to such recommendations when I develop a respect for the source. In this case there is a minor conflict of interest since O'Reilly both published Raymond's book and is a strong supported of the Open Source movement. but so be it. Having a koala on the cover helped.
• I ordered the novel by Georges Perec, Life: A User's Manual. This was recommended by Italo Calvino. Similar comments to above apply, sans le koala.
• While looking for books by Perec, I came across a 6 volume "novel" by Marcel Proust called In Search of Lost Time. I am intrigued. I bought the first volume, called Swann's Way. I have now replenished my collection of "books to be read before I die". This should help keep me alive for awhile.

A few final comments from The Cathedral and the Bazaar:

• User Friendly web site
• Raymond's home page
• hackers build things, crackers break them
• the world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved
• being a hacker is lots of fun, but it's a kind of fun that takes lots of effort. The effort takes motivation.
• to be a hacker you have to get a basic thrill from solving problems, sharpening your skills, and exercising your intelligence.
• You also have to develop a kind of faith in your own learning capacity - a belief that even though you may not know all of what you need to solve a problem, if you tackle just a piece of it and learn from that, you'll learn enough to solve the next piece - and so on, until you're done.
• nobody should ever have to solve a problem twice
• boredom and dudgery are evil
• Freedom is good.
• hackers are naturally anti-authoritarian.
• Attitude is no substitute for competence.
• Raymond's page on learning Unix
• Raymond's HTML Hell page
• Hacker FAQ

A great day, and it is still daylight. Even better the BBQ is ready to be lit and there is beer in the fridge. Life is good.