onwards and blogwards

Happy New Year, bloggers! I've missed you guys. Three months was a long time to be offline and there's loads of things I want to comment on, but I'm getting bogged down trying to catch up. So I think I'll just start again from now, and hopefully come back to some of the important debates of 2006 that aren’t going away in any case. Thanks again for the kind thoughts some of you have sent (yeah, it wasn't the best year I've ever had) and thanks for still reading my blog. So...let's warm up with my favorite subject: the Rodent...