To make a long story short, my desktop computer exploded on Saturday. Sort of figuratively, of course. Having seen the future in a dream, I had ordered a laptop pre-emptively. This lovely Dell Inspiron arrived Monday morning. It's all pretty and blue. It is serving me remarkably well, but I have lost about my last month's worth of e-mail...So people who have e-mailed me recently should try re-sending whatever it was. Unless it was porn spam.

In particular, Derek Robinson, I've lost your e-mail address. And you don't seem to have put it on your website, you silly person. Hopefully you'll see this in the near future...

But the greater crisis is over. You may go back to your normal lives.

...Wait. Bush is still president. I spoke too soon. You may continue to panic.