Events

The state registered Punzun Ltd, an Illinois corporation doing business as Inner Drive Technology, on 17 February 2000. The name, however, dates from my mind wandering in Mr Collins' algebra class on 21 March 1985, so really "Punzun Ltd" as a concept will turn 41 next month.

Chicago set a new record high temperature for February 16th officially at 11:51 when the temperature at O'Hare got up to 15°C (59°F). That was also 4°C warmer than just an hour earlier, and at the moment it's 2°C above the record. By the way, 17°C is the normal temperature in Chicago on April 25th.

The record temperature for February 16th is just 14°C (58°F). Officially at O'Hare it's 6.1°C (43°F) and foggy, but the forecast predicts a high of nearly 18°C (64°F)—the normal temperature for April 28th.

I've just released version 1.0.9543 of the software running the Daily Parker. This is the 9th production release since January 13th, which is 9 production releases more than in the previous several years. In fact, there were no new releases between 29 April 2019 and 13 January 2026, because of how difficult it was to maintain the previous version. That, of course, was one of the reasons for rewriting the thing from scratch.

Yesterday, St Boniface Cemetery, Chicago: