To the gentle readers of this IDL forum: I hope you will forgive this brief intrusion. As well as having had numerous smaller contracts, I have been very fortunate to have a steady client for over a dozen years, and recently he was let go from his research position in a corporate workforce adjustment. It may turn out that none of that work will be continued, so I find myself suddenly very available for new business! I have done a long-overdue update on my website: http://d-jackson.com ... including a portfolio of much of my IDL work, complete with pretty pictures: http://d-jackson.com/portfolio.html I am now also signed up on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/p...le/view?id=216019239 Thanks for your indulgence here! Cheers, -Dick P.S.: Considered and rejected subject lines: "Cyber Monday special on software consultants!" "Spend those year-end budget leftovers!" Dick Jackson Software Consulting Victoria, BC, Canada dick@d-jackson.com