"I once got lost in Cologne and couldn't ask the way since I didn't speak German. But using a map of London, I quickly found Spoerri's restaurant and the address of George Brecht."
-- Ralph Rumney, The Consul (Verso, 2002)

As 2003 was the year of the blog, I thought it rather appropriate that I
should start mine over four weeks after blogging had gone out of fashion.