At Bill's request, I built Apache with SSL support on his IRIX workstation. This entails coaxing several prerequisite software packages to compile in the weird and wonderful environment of IRIX. I've done this all before (on the SGI Challenge server that hosts the Rainbow Children's Museum site), but it still took the better part of a day. I look forward to the completion of a BSD port to SGI hardware.

My current hero is Nathan Arthur. Despite overwhelming fatigue and not being presently enrolled in the class, he joined our Data Structures study group. In about 15 minutes, he explained C++ copy constructors, operator overloading, and template classes so effectively that I went home immediately afterward, inspired to write a program using these techniques. He is by far the best explainer of ideas I have encountered at CWRU (and this includes professors!).