Posting from the Old Slaughterhouse; gawd is great to be back here... I'll be offline for the next 4-5 days, hiking the Heaphy Track from Karamea to Collingwood. A "first" for this weblog, my good friend Jonas Voss is going to guest-blog while I'm gone. Jonas is Danish and living in Copenhagen right now (but yes, he speaks excellent English); I met him on our GEO field study trip to Denmark back in October, 1999. Hopefully he'll keep things under control around here until I get back. ;)