Many, many thanks to the legions of NRO readers who emailed in to help out with my computer gaming problem. I now have a bunch of things to try, but all of them time-consuming & postponed till I have got a decent day’s work done. Most promising approaches: something called “port forwarding” that I have to learn about; cleaning up “crapware” (no problem: I walk my dog every morning); perhaps a new graphics card. I forgot to specify that I have a home LAN with internet access via a router.

Some readers grumbled that my email address is hard to find. I’m sorry, but you bet it is. Sticking your email address on the internet in plain view, or tucked away in plain-vanilla HTML code, is asking for trouble. Mine is encrypted on my personal web page http://www.olimu.com/ and anyone who wants to contact me should use that. (The old one, beginning “olimu,” still works, but I’m phasing it out.) No hawkers, peddlers, or missionaries, please.