I just had a quick chat with Dr Neil. He's in a plane some 40,000 feet over Pakistan at the moment, but he's well able to literally write at me from six and a half thousand miles away thanks to his slate, Messenger, and Singapore Airlines' IP connectivity. Welcome to the new world!

(As I griped about earlier, it's not easy to link to photos in MSN Spaces. Having claimed that there were no permalinks at all, I now suspect that I can link to the album or directly to the picture if I rip the URLs out of the RSS feed. Easy, huh? If the links turn out to break over time, of course, just do whatever seems natural on the Photos page of my space.)