My accomplishments during 1997:
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  <li>1997.Jan: Started writing Fred-window utility to rearrange results from Usenet Whitepages into better order whereby different matches count more than duplicates of single match.</li>
  <li>1997.Mar: Starting using procmail to filter spam in e-mail.</li>
  <li>1997.Apr: Started studying tutorial for MicroSoft Windows, and "Professor Windows".</li>
  <li>1997.May.16: Started programming Fred window to automatically process log of UCE (Unsolicited Commercial E-mail).</li>
  <li>A few weeks before 1997.Sep.23: Invented a variation of a knot to securely tie soft compressible object such as window curtain, what I now call an "adjustable bowline".</li>
  <li>1997.Dec.20: Updated PCNET software (LISP & C) to avoid ctrl-] over modem, to run via MIBX TELNET dialup which uses ctrl-] as TELNET escape.</li>
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