Long time no post

Apologies for the inactivity here. The Editor's excuses are:

• Supervising the completion of McConnell's new book (see above)
• Spending a fortnight in the hospital with a surprise case of pneumonia
• Experimenting with Twitter (@jfmcluggage -- follow it for a larger volume of shorter nonsense than usually appears here).
• General indolence

However, now that things are back to something approximating normalcy, we'll try to make this a bit more lively.