The Angel of Death

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NO! The Angel of Death did not visit DeanLand (or me, Dean, either).

There is a very long post, soon to be put in this space. But it was not completed when I had to drop everything and board a plane.

So it hopped onto a floppy, traveled across the ocean, and is sitting in a valise. My laptop is sufferfing from Microsoftitis, that disease in which XP fails, and then locks itself up so that all attempts to repair it end up redirected to where the problem was in the first place.

Neat group of programmers and coders, those XP brainiac developers over in Redmond. I think they have a very mean and insidious sense of humor. Either that, or they are just plain dumb.

So the post will arrive, just a few days later than intended. You know, plans, mice, men, Microsoft...

Happily alive and visiting the UK -- a full report to follow soon.

Thanks to those who sent words of dismay, confusion, and so forth.

Back in a little while

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