I highly doubt anyone has noticed the lack of posts to this blog lately(?) But I'm throwing this up anyway for my own sense comfort: 1) On November 1st 2006 I was saddled with the job of being the sysadmin for the whole Physics Dept. The previous sysadmin put together a, ah, rather unnecessarily complex and not-so-workable environment and thus it's, ah, consumed a lot of my time. 2) For the last month I've been plagued with an on-again-off-again "acute sinus infection" and to top it off I came down with the flu at 2300 hours December 31st 2006. Thank god for antibiotics and Pepto-Bismol!