Hi all, Merry Christmas Eve Eve! 

Yes of course there is such a thing ... my family always celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve, so today is the Night before ... Christmas Eve, aka Christmas Eve Eve.  We have a house full of people, the table is set, presents are positioned under the tree, and there is some last minute wrapping and indeed shopping going on.

I spent the day blogging - excited about Feedly and my new RSS-to-blog-via-Ole-filter pipeline - and also coding.  I figured out how to call a C++ DLL that uses CUDA directly from Python, so that was fun.  An image array operation that ran at about 6/s now runs at about 600/s.  Yippee.

I can't say the world looks like it's in great shape right now, many things are not perfect, and unfortunately it feels like the trend of many things is down.  But ... who knows what 2023 will bring?  I choose to be optimistic.

In the meantime, tonight's Christmas Eve Eve!  I hope you're having a nice one, and are spending it quietly and peacefully with those you love...