It's an odd thing that anyone who disappears is said to be seen in SAN FRANCISCO. -- Oscar Wilde
Dear friends,
Angelika I've been thinking about for a long time how my christmas mail this year should look like. But due to being busy packing boxes to move, I decided to write a possibly rather impersonal newsletter. On doing this I can't avoid to tell things some of you may already know, but better twice than not at all.
We've experienced a year full of events with many unforgettable highlights such a our wedding in August. Many of you joined the celebration respectively kept us in mind. We'll always remember our celebration as well as our honeymoon to Australia and we often reminisce about it.
Before and after our wedding, Michael has been working hard on his book. In January, he had written two articles for a computer magazine, that's why the publisher Addison-Wesley asked him to write a book on the topics that were outlined in the articles. And he agreed, since it had always been a dream of his to write a book. So he wrote all the time, while still doing his main job. In the beginning of December they published "Go to Perl 5". And I have to admit that I'm pretty excited whenever I see the book on the shelves of a bookstore, even though I can't follow the issue except of the preposition.
Thanks to Boris Kleinbach, kleinbach@ymail.com for translating the original German text to English.