It has been hard to miss the reports lately that blame High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) for many of our gluttonous ways. I have been swept up in the trend towards avoiding the ills of HFCS. It turns out that as with many fads this may all be a lot of whoop-la over a poor reading of science. The trouble is that High Fructose Corn Syrup isn't really much different from table sugar in it's fructose-glucose ratio. It does have a higher ratio of fructose to glucose than other forms of corn syrup and fructose has been found to have some undesirable health effects but there is a major leap to go from some of those effects to blaming HFCS for the obesity epidemic.

Looking at the excellent Take Control book series I came across Eudora Mailbox Cleaner which looks really interesting. It has been a while since I did the last Eudora conversion but it may be helpful for some folks who are still looking to migrate.

The Appleton Post-Crescent reports state fire officials are concerned about lax fire drill practices at schools. It seems Wisconsin recently amended its laws and officials estimate compliance with the required monthly fire drill rules at about 40 percent.

This is an area of particular interest to me. When I was in grade school I fought the establishment over the lack of fire drills - which we had roughly annually - and the emergency exit gates that were padlocked shut. Eventually things changed but not until our group of crusaders had been to the state fire marshal and the school board meeting.