Forgot to add: Movie making from digital camcorder? No prob! XP Pro comes

with Windows Movie Maker, which, after you’ve downloaded the free upgrade,

works like a dream. In fact I’m having trouble getting any reading or

writing done, sitting here making home movies with titles & credits & stuff.

I am a total XP convert. Oh, hey: all those readers who sneered at me for

not switching to one of those pathetic Mac machines–eat my shorts.

Now I’m off to the Great Wen (i.e. Washington DC) for the NPR thing. By

train–the CIVILIZED way to travel. (We won’t mention the subsidies. OK,

OK: I’m riding on a govt-funded railroad to do an interview with a

govt-funded radio station, promoting a book published by an outfit that gets

some part of its funding–never researched the details–from the National

Science Foundation. Call it a wee vacation from fiscal conservatism.

Hoping to make up for it with three–count ‘em, THREE–good foam-flecked

conservative rants on NRO this week.)