I've had a hell of a day today, dealing with a wide range of technical problems from internet connections and LANs to mobile phone services. I've spent absolute hours on the phone and even managed to lock myself out of my house. Modern life, hey? Promises you the world and then pulls it all out from under you without so much as a by-your-leave.

I'm only temporarily back, but before everything went Pete Tong this morning, I ran across a story linked from Riverbend's Baghdad Burning: US soldiers bulldoze farmers' crops.