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I wasn’t just kidding about California in my conversation with John Thiel in our Letters department. And my “brief sojourn” is by no means the only experience I have to go by. Notice, too, that my observations are not meant unkindly: all I say is that California is... different, and the most different thing about it is the sunlight. It’s not the discovery at Coloma — a very pretty restoration of Sutter’s mill, by the way, and you must travel the breathtakingly scenic route 49 — nor the yellow fields in the valleys in summer, it’s the sunlight that makes it the “golden state.”

It’s also the home of the Mac, but I didn’t upgrade my laptop in time and wasn’t able to handle the last-minute preparations for issue 94, which include the Readers’ Guide. I hope this issue makes up for it.

The templates are gradually taking shape. The menu and color buttons took a lot of work and adjustments, but — cross our fingers — they seem to be working well now.

The Google advertisements are new. Personally I’m very favorably impressed with them. Even the public-service adverts show up when I’m preparing pages off line. And I find them so interesting that I’ve already clicked on several. Jerry, will we get into trouble for that? Editors are not supposed to click on their own ads. Anyway, I’ll keep checking the pages to make sure the adverts are centered properly.

Bewildering Stories started out on a big trek some months ago, to move to a “frameless” website. The big push is now over. We now have a Google-friendly “frameless” format for our “modern” issues as well as a “frameful” format to help you with back issues. From now on, it’s all a matter of cleaning up loose ends and keeping things tidy. We have crossed the Sierra, heaving a sigh of relief that we haven’t been invited to dinner by the Donner Party. Now the golden Sacramento valley stretches before us.

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