It's been a long day, which started off with a conference call I had all but forgotten about and ended with a slight panic in our Tokyo office that was instigated by overzealous legal & compliance officers. That actually was rather amusing given the fact that it was much ado about nothing (it's a long story) and it still kept several people up until 2 AM Tokyo time. I had actually been hoping that the pre-Christmas lull in business would have started to set it by now, but somehow work just keeps piling up, which means I actually have to do things at work, for many hours on end.

In any case, I am not going to be blogging much today; instead, I'll try to vanquish the last vestiges of the cold that has been pestering me for some days now. So I'll stick to some short notes. As many of you will already know, Lileks has another brilliant screed up. Aside from the brilliance of his writing (when I grow up I want to be a Lileks - except it would have happened by now, so I'm not counting on it), there's a seredipitous typo: seculiar. I think that it should be elevated to neologism status. "Have you seen that seculiar interpretation of the Mahabharata?"

Meanwhile, for those interested in matters Dutch, I refer you to fellow Netherblogger Michiel Visser who has a lot of good stuff on the Pim Fortuyn investigation. On a slightly different tack, there's a great post on "Guns and Freedom" at Rachel Lucas's blog. While there are things in Bill Whittle's comments that can be quibbled with, it's a fantastic piece of writing. The comments also contain some vitriol from people who should be applauding this article; then again, morons who refer to Lincoln as "Abraham Lenin" are seriously unhinged. Beyond that, they only serve to perpetuate the left-wing stereotype of us who support gun-rights as dangerous nuts. It appears that guy is not even a troll.

Anyways, more regular blogging will resume when I have refilled my reservoirs of sleep, probably tomorrow (unless work intervenes again).