Sorry for yesterday’s absence; I spent the day transferring files from my wheezy old laptop to its shiny new replacement — when I wasn’t watching more documentaries, of course.

But all is well and good now, and the new machine is humming right along … which is handy, because I have quite a lot of work to do. I mean, sure, I could rhapsodize about the design improvements Sony’s made in the last two and a half years — the illuminated keyboard, the multi-touch trackpad, the sensibly placed smart-card readers, and so on — but who has time?

Yeah, I’ll admit it: I’m Sony’s bitch. But right now, right this minute, when everything’s humming along properly, I kind of don’t mind.