Paper available

The paper "On the categorical meaning of Hausdorff and Gromov distances, I" by Andrei Akhvlediani, Maria Manuel Clementino and myself is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0618 and on my homepage at http://math.yorku.ca/~tholen/ The paper expands on ideas offered in Maria Manuel Clementino's talk at CT08 and in my talks at the Octoberfest in Montreal and at the Borceux-Bourn Birthday Conference in Brussels in October. We welcome comments. Regards, Walter Tholen.