Just a quick note to explain a further absence.
I'm back in the USA, but the computer a friend was going to lend me died.
More distressing, the Malaysian government and my bank in Malaysia are still trying to figure out where all my savings went, since the government says they wired it into my bank account and the bank says they never saw it. Until THAT is resolved, I won't be buying a new computer or a new anything else, for that matter.
Therefore, this blog will remain inactive for a while longer. I'm hoping for a speedy and positive resolution to all the aforementioned problems.