On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:42:34AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> By my crude calculations, it is now 99 days until the
> third annual international Ruby Conference in Austin,
> Texas, November 14-16, 2003.

No need to be crude when you have Ruby. :)

$ ruby -r date -e 'puts Date.new(2003,11,14) - Date.new(2003,8,8)'
98
$

Of course, it really is 99 days for those of us who are still in 
Thursday. :)

-Mark