We now return to our regularly scheduled programming

The Umlaut is back!

I've spent the last two months gradually growing into the realization that I am now the father of the beautiful little creature pictured above. Being a father has left me with very little time for anything else, but I'm making an effort now to reintroduce the component parts of my life. The American Umlaut will thus resume its irregular broadcast schedule beginning immediately. Like everything else in my life, the Umlaut will be losing timeshare to poopy diapers and Giggly Snuggle Time, but if you point your browser in this direction from time to time, there will be entertaining morsels to be found here.

Things to look forward to in the next few weeks: Four new book reviews, thrilling tales of fatherhood, cute baby pictures, and an account of my installation of a LinuxMCE-based media center. Don't touch that dial!