Like many, I am logged in most of the time to ET - but, depending on my workday or social evening, I appear here briefly at odd moments for a quick read and a possible post. It might appear from the evidence that I am constantly present. But I am not.

I've nothing against chats: there's a Finnish movie one that I spend a couple of hours in every now and then to keep in touch with a few colleagues and the latest gossip. But I prefer threads.

You can't be me, I'm taken