It's been a while since I last updated my plan. For those following the
story of Etta, our poor sick cat, I'm afraid I have to break to you some
sad news. Etta didn't make it. We still did not find out what had
caused her to quit eating, but she plataued in her recovery. She was
strong enough to be angry with me for force-feeding her and was
retaliating by refusing to use the litter box. Unlike a human, I could
not impress upon her how important it was for her to eat, and she
continued to refuse. After three weeks of care, we couldn't move her
recovery any further forward. She will definitely be missed by both
Meghan and I and our other cat, Loki.

Anyway, on to better news of a more technical nature. The pnm2ppa
project[1] just release version 1.11[2] of the software. Over the last
week, I took some of my otherwise wasted time babysitting DLT tape
drives and rewrote the Debian[3] packages for pnm2ppa. They're currently
awaiting approval in the incoming queue[4], though it looks like they've
migrated to the "new" queue (inaccessable from the web). In the mean
time, if you'd like to test them, you can find all the appropriate files
at http://people.debian.org/~chewie/pnm2ppa. I didn't apt-ify the
directory, because I don't want people to rely upon that source as a
distribution medium. The Debian archives trees are the place for that.

References
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1. http://pnm2ppa.sourceforge.net
2. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1322
3. http://www.debian.org/
4. http://incoming.debian.org/