Hi Tom, I stumbled upon this blog a couple of days ago and found it such good reading that, since then, have read it from the start to the present day. Sorry; I probably owe you something for all the bandwidth chewing, but then I'd say you owe me an essay for which you provided me with a phenomenal amount of procrastination material! Anyway, just wanted to say that I think your blog is excellent. You show compassion where it's due, without being condescending, and possess a sense of humour that really makes reading about your day-to-day work a pleasure. You'll certainly be getting my nominations :) Looking forward to seeing what's to come and I hope my LiveJournal usage can be compensated by the fact that I play a number of instruments and at least used to be bilingual ;) Take care, Eri.