The Wombat File Is Yours to Keep

I just didn't expect a week's vacation here to mean that I'd be as completely cut off from the File (and, indeed, the various and sundry Internets) as I turned out to be. While the Cape May library has supposedly free wireless, the demands of family, both young and old, made the scheduling of even a brief jaunt out the door on one's own almost as difficult to arrange as a weekend in Havana. And while there were fleeting signs of some active wireless networks within range of the house we stayed in, the savvy residents of Cape May apparently know how to turn the password features on their routers.

So while it was probably in some ways a good thing that we spent the week without watching TV, reading a single newspaper, or experiencing dynamic 'Net culture at its finest, I'm sorry that I was neither able to finally give the answer to Part I of the last Quiz -- that answer being Beau Brummell -- nor to run a quiz last Friday, as I had hoped. If I'd known it wouldn't work out, I'd have given some notice.