Thanks Steve.
I was away for 1 week on a business trip that had an unfortunate circumstance that my notebook computer took a dump and refused to function anymore so I had to replace it from a small city computer center at a big price (Argh). But the trip completed with a good result. :-)

Immediately after that I went off for my annual canoe trip to the BWCA in northern Minnesota with five days of nothing but lakes, trees, streams, loons, portages and just a few other people in this canoe only wilderness. My group covered a distance of about 35 miles in 5 days across 9 lakes, down 2 streams and over 7 portages. The portages on this trip were long with three of them nearly a mile long. It is amazing how, for a few days, things like Cygnal processors, Keil compilers, download cables, and complex code algorithms seem so unimportant.

Michael Karas