A Programming Note

For those of you wondering "what has B. Franklin done with the Mission Man?", the answer is that he has fallen prey to two of the many demons that sometimes attack us in what we, perhaps optimistically, call our "middle" years: a painful, debilitating, and chronic back problem and a particularly nasty computer virus that just won't be slain, no matter what he tries...

Hopefully, he will be well enough, both physically and electronically, to resume blogging again very soon...