pants-no-pants

Another thumbs up for VoodooPad. I've run it for years without a glitch. And it serves pages to my local net, navigation links and all.

There is a similar situation in northern Italy, where there is an area known as Val di Non. Their dialect sounds as much French as Italian, even though it's south of Innsbruck, far from France.

These things seem to have one thing in common — they are areas historically isolated from one another, usually by mountains or valleys. Before cars (or even roads) were common, you could almost throw a rock at the next town over, but to actually go there would take a day or more.

MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Well, what do you know about that! These forty years now I’ve been speaking in prose without knowing it!

My bank still accepts fax documents. All I would have to do is find a fax machine ...