While preparing this column I wondered whether I saw my not-particularly-successful attempt to reactivate the Boidem five years ago as a swan-song as well. Turning to the embedded Google search engine on the main Boidem page I discovered that at least in what I'd posted I hadn't. On the other hand, I discovered that fourteen years ago, also in a (surprisingly short) birthday edition of the Boidem posted on this date, I'd wondered whether after five years I'd covered all the territory there was to cover.

When I did so I also found that the internal linking to a series of reflections on what there was left to write about was incorrect ... only to discover that my local version carried the correct links. In other words, apparently somewhere along the line I'd found that I hadn't posted the correct link structure (at the end of a series of internal pages) even though I'd found the error and corrected it locally. So, for what it's worth, those pages have now been updated. As was, however, inevitable, I found myself reading what I'd written back then, and feeling that to more than only a limited extent the thoughts I'm expressing in this column aren't particularly different from those expressed fourteen years ago.