The Fredösphere

My home PC is sunk in an emotional crisis right now. Boots about once every five tries. I have a deep suspicion that files on the hard drive are being corrupted with every try. The OS (whoops, better put scare quotes around that: "OS") is probably offering those files cigarettes and fascist pamphlets right now. So anyway, I'll be blogging via the handy email method that blogger.com provides. But that method is unreliable, as I've found out from two posts that bounced and others that took forever to show up. Ten days, and my honeymoon with blogger.com is already over. As my father-in-law might say, the first question you should always ask is: "how much will the free one cost?"