It must be a sad sign of my geekdom that I didn't even notice when my cell phone stopped receiving calls or taking messages. Honestly, I'm so wired to the net that I conduct almost all of my exchanges via e-mail and chat. While I was happily e-mailing with everyone, I didn't notice that my last received call was on August 5th. No voice messages.

So far, only one person has sent me an angry e-mail, and I'm truly sorry about not calling back. If you called and left a message since the 5th, please try again by e-mail. I'm not ignoring you. I'm just oblivious to finer points of operating this "telephone" device.