of course it happens it is working. my second blog (well third or fourth if you count the ones that did not work) serves me right for setting up my own template I suppose. today's highlights? seeing KS Robinson read from his new book, name escapes me, but following up well with recently read books, Thunder From the East (Dunn and someone, about a possible Asian Ascendency in the coming century) and Guns Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond, on macro history), germs being the operative word, the plague having wiped out most of the west in this alternate version of history.