Personal notice

I will be absent from the blogosphere for a while.  I have suffered a major personal event.  I posted the link round-up yesterday because it was all written and ready to go (they are put together over the course of the whole week), but I'm not going to be doing any more writing for some time.

I am closing comments on this and I ask that people respect that.  At some point later I may talk about what happened in detail, or I may not, but I don't feel up to it now.  I need some time to myself to deal with this.