I honestly don't know whether I'll be keeping this up. I'd like to, if for no other reason than I'm interested in a different writing challenge than what's occupied me for most of the time since I stopped writing these columns. On the other hand, I'm quite sure it's fair to say that this isn't a swan-song, one last curtain call before I truly call this project quits. Our digital senses have become so accustomed to the reality of the web that today a new tool has to work overtime to get our attention, to cause us to see ourselves in some new and distinct light from what we knew in pre-internet times. But perhaps it's precisely the banality of this digitality, the hu-huminess of being able to click on anything and encounter something unexpected, that paradoxically allows us to be surprised. And this, of course, suggests that there's still no lack of "issues" that merit being examined here. So maybe for the foreseeable future there are still some items I can write about.