Just a quick post to apologize to everyone for the lack of posts, e-mails, responses to comments, and so forth that has occurred lately -- with the laptop fans making these highly disconcerting sounds, I've been kinda scared to use the machine and have turned it off at almost every opportunity. That said, last night I successfully disassembled the laptop, removed and cleaned the fans, and reassembled the machine, so I'm confident that I'll be able to do it again when my replacement fans arrive sometime next week. And then, barring any other unforeseen technical difficulties, we'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming!

I hope everyone's 2009 is off to a great start.