In other news, Mom's laptop is dying (of much the same disease that Motoko had), so we got her a new one. It's a little Toshiba with a Centrino Duo. Rather shiny; I've been up all night configuring it, but it should be ready soon.

In other other news, I have to fly to England next week, so this whole terrorist thing is about the worst timing possible. Ugh. Really, people, al Qaeda has known about liquid explosives for over a decade—they tested them out in 1994. This is new how?

But in other other other news, I was pleased to see Bush say we're fighting "Islamic fascists", not "terrorists". At least his speechwriters know who the enemy is.