Just a quick note here to invite you to check out the trailer for Jeunet's next film, A Very Long Engagement. I love this man's work – I loved the films he did with Carot, Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children, and I truly adored Amelie. I can't wait to catch this next one.

Meanwhile, where am I? Where have I gone? I'm still hammering on my new site, and taking some time reading things that don't appear on computer screens. At the moment I've been poring over both Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs, a book which has been sitting on my shelf for ages but never got the real in-depth examining it deserved, and Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media. I'm trying to build a system into the new weblog to accommodate book reviews. We'll see if it works.