  this is a message from the void. I've been deprived of net access at home since last tuesday - thanks a bunch, BT customer services - and I'm likely to remain so until somewhere in the region of next weekend. Maybe by then I will feel a bit more like writing than I have done lately. There's a new template pretty much done, so when I do get back online, this page will be a good deal more presentable than it is at the moment. You never know, maybe I can find the time to mark up some of the other pages that used to live here, and put them back up, too. It's not as if the delights of the network will be distracting me at all for the next few days... 
