Views from Medina Road

Since late last week I've been pre-occupied with updating the various Links pages on Locus Online, including the Links Portal page -- checking for obsolete links, adding links suggested to me via email, and rearranging and consolidating the several links pages; they haven't been completely overhauled since 2001! -- to the point of neglecting all but the most urgent updates to the website itself, not to mention other mundane tasks, like answering email, writing checks, reading books, and so on. It's taken longer than I'd expected -- these things always do -- but I expect to be done by this weekend at the latest. (The authors links page has already been updated, crudely, with over 500 links, more than twice the previous number; all the links pages will undergo some uniform reformatting.) Then regularly programming will resume...