Thanks all for the votes and comments. The Time Of Great Renewal is upon us. Thanks to my mother, I have a spiffy new 12" powerbook, which gets five hours of battery life and is light as a feather. I just slapped a 1gig RAM module into it after running around trying to find a screwdriver that was small enough. I went to the tiny local spot across the street, run by a friendly old guy who's always hanging out watching baseball with Horatio -- my local bodega-man -- when I drop in to get pounders of Tecate. Horatio is himself a great local character; a scrupulous price gouger who still hangs a painted portrait of JFK behind the register, calls me "capitan" (cap-ee-tan).

But I digress. Since it was a local hardware place, I just dropped two bucks to borrow a set of screwdrivers. Sadly none of them worked so I walked up the hill to get an even smaller one -- Apple, when will you just let us use regular tools? -- and popped in the RAM module. The Pbook is smooth as ice now. It comes stock with 256mb, which is a pittance in modern terms. Now it's a demon on amphetamines, a steroid-drivin aluminum-shelled calculating dervish with a Napoleonic complex. And all told it cost about 70% of what my last one did. Nice trendline, that.

It's going to be a worky time these next months. Itinerant consultant boho hobo pomo mofo faux pho foe, and maybe even a little po'. The site shifts will come as time and inspiration dictates. Until then, bear with the business and crap.