Signed, sealed and delivered.

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There was no need to search through any of the traditional sources I use for finding significant dates in order to establish this month's date tie-in. The date for uploading this column was both fitting and obvious: this was the date on which I submitted three printed copies of my thesis, as required, to my advisor.

The world of the internet is often referred to as a virtual world, suggesting, somehow, that it is governed by different laws than those of the tangible, three-dimensional world we usually occupy. It is often seen as a world set apart, a parallel world that functions by a different schedule. Submitting my thesis and uploading this column about that thesis on the same day is, perhaps, a means of meshing those worlds, of establishing, even if only for a brief moment, a correspondence between those two separate worlds. It gives me great pleasure to be able to have contributed, in my own small way, to that correspondence.

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