If you guys could just listen to me for a second --

Blogspot appears to be down in Ethiopia; Cedric has added me as a contributor to his blog, so I can post the things he emails me. So far this amounts to one post, which I'll put up in a second; it was emailed a couple of days ago, but I've been out of touch in backwoods Laos. Now I'm in relatively cosmopolitan Phnom Penh, where there are such things as "computers" with "the internets." Cheers.