The news as of March 7, 2005 is:

1. I did some minor repairs today, hopefully fixing the counters, which again broke, and bringing some of the information up to date. Let me know if anything is now working strangely. In older news, ...
2. Thanks to Lu-Ann VanAller, I've located and fixed a bug that caused the Treadle Reducer to hang up on some inputs and not return an answer. If you experienced this behavior, please accept my apologies, and please try again and let me know what happens. I hope the Treadle Reducer now behaves politely on all input. (The CS professor in me is sheepish; I would have shaken my head had a student turned in code with this error.)
3. The hit counter, which turns out not to have been working for over a year, is now fixed. Maybe I'll now find out if anybody uses the Treadle Reducer.
4. In order to make sure the Treadle Reducer stays available to the community, and to help answer questions of those interested in how the Treadle Reducer works, I've decided to release the source code under the GPL. Here's a link to a page discussing the design of the Treadle Reducer, and containing the source code.
5. It's not news, but I'm busy thinking about mathematics and doing things with the kids. Know, therefore, that while I am very interested in people's experiences with the Treadle Reducer, I'm not always able to respond to your mail right away. Your mail is important to me, even when it gets stacked up; my family and sanity are more important.
   You might try this choice of priorities, if you haven't already. It works.
6. Finally, long-time users of the site may be happy to hear that we and the kids are doing well in the country. One virtue of life at a small college is that I can live an easy 9 mile bicycle ride from work, yet be in a place where we have 11 acres of woods and can't see another house. My mother is doing well after the medical problems of recent years. She has moved to Richmond and is living a short walk from the College; she and her grandchildren are really enjoying being in the same town.

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Tim McLarnan,
Tremewan Professor of Mathematics
Earlham College,
Richmond, IN 47374 USA

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