Great joy is held back by a thick dam of trepidation. The Red Sox are 3-0 in the World Series, winning last night 4-1.

Our edition of the Boston Globe has to go to press before the games are complete, so the front page and sports sections carry incomplete reports, through about the fourth inning.

One of the most ambitious and interesting projects on the net is Project Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.net/. There's more aboout its history and philosophy here -http://www.gutenberg.net/about/history - but, in brief, they are making public domain books available in electronic form. They also have audio books read by a speech synthesizer. I have to admit that it takes a bit to get used to the voice.