Yes, I’m still here, and will return to regular posting in about a week, with some new additions to this blog.
In an unrelated note, my feelings toward comment/trackback spam are quite similar to Dave Barry’s feelings about popup ads:

Can anybody recommend a good popup-ad-killing program? Ideally it would (a) detect every popup ad and suppress [...]

Those of you who keep up with military history know that today is the anniversary of a very special event – the beginning of WWII’s Battle of the Bulge.
I could use the story of that battle as an example of the courage and might of the Greatest Generation, and equate it to Iraq, demonstrating the [...]

This is completely unrelated to any of the topics usually addressed on this blog, but I need to blow off some steam.
I’m working on a paper that’s due tomorrow at 5 PM. I would like to grab some additional research.
With that in mind, I would like to know what moron decided to close the library [...]

I’ll believe it when I see it.