Judging by my own experience, an epidemic may be sweeping the northern world now in hot weather. Etiology: 1. Really hot weather > short shorts. 2. Laptop compuer (in my case a year 2000 HP Omnibook 500). 3. Tour de France > to using the laptop as a laptop so I can watch at the same time. 4. Paper deadline which leads me to press on and focus. Symptoms: 1. A non-trivial burn on my thighs. 2. Still feel it 24 hours later. 3. Medicine: copy of Comm of the ACM inserted between the laptop and my thighs. 4. Side-effects. None. CommACM did not get scorched. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________