That was the sound of my computer crashing. I'm not sure what happened or why, but around 7:15 p.m. on Thursday, my computer dropped dead. No warning. I shut it down to reboot, but I guess the hard drive or the processor didn't much feel like doing that, so it just stayed down. How's that for a WTF moment!
So anyway, I'm back now, armed with a new computer complete with Windows Vista and a couple two three bugs still to be worked out. Don't you just love Microsoft?