1 Any idea who the actual target of the DoS was? (My guess was Ace, but I'm not familiar with the majority of your users so I'm probably wrong.)

2 I was WONDERING what was going on earlier.  Sunuvabeechmartin!

3 If it was Ace, they missed, because I moved his blog to the other server two weeks ago.

Possibly The Jawa Report.  There are a number of Munuvians who aren't, how shall I put this, the most practiced of diplomats, so it could be any of a number of people.

4 No doubt someone disagreeing with my assessment of Wolverine's powers.  *snort*    Either way, thank you for your efforts at bringing MuNuvia back up and running, Pixy... A Winner Is You!

5 We'll have to sling you an extra large care package of noodles, pokki and M&Ms to keep you going.

Much appreciated.

Baiting comicbook fanboyz is too easy. Hardly a challenge.

6 Presumed Guilty?  Have fun with it, whenever you get to it.  I've been favorably impressed with the changes made to the series as it has proceeded, and this one does much to establish a hidden order underpinning the entire series.  Plus, the family Carpenter is back in the spotlight.

I'd be interested in whatever comments you have on it, again whenever you do get to it.

7 I'd say "getting back to the hidden order underpinning the entire series."  It was stated as far back as the werewolf novel, that something was fishy in Chicago. Too many tomes, magic belts, and other weird things showing up; in fact the very first novel opens up with an obvious mystery: who supplied the book on demon summoning to the killer that targeted Harry?

But "Yay!" for the return of the Carpenters, I agree!

It was definately interesting to see Lily and Fix again; I'd always felt that Summer Knight was one of the weaker books in the series, but they were good here.

8 Yes, Lily and Fix have grown up quite nicely.

Do you think that Butcher had planned this from the beginning?  I believe that he started with a character, a genre, and a style (wizard, noir, two-fisted) and just threw problems at Dresden for the first few books.  Afterward, it dawned on him that he had an indefinitely viable series on his hands, and he began to lay foundations to carry it forward.

He might have been working on this overplot as far back as kicking off the war with the Red Court in book three (see also, Leaninsidhe's/Mab's athame), but I wouldn't bet on it really coalescing much before book six or so, and maybe book seven.

This isn't really a criticism - his reconciliation of past problems with present conspiracies was quite clever, and I can honestly say that the series is improving visibly from book to book at this point.  I'm particularly excited about the turn of events with SPOILER, as I think SPOILER is going to be particularly interesting character going forward, given SPOILER's SPOILER and SPOILER.

Incidentally, don't you wan't to know who used SPOILER on the gates of SPOILER?  Or who was driving the car when it SPOILER?

Ah, Pixy - read the thing soon, to spare my caps-lock key, if not for its considerable merits.

9   Well, the kitten-playing and lunch-eating entries are ticked off, so I'll tackle the book-reading and blog-prototyping tomorrow. :)

10 Yeah and now SPOILER knows about SPOILER!  The response was about what I expected, but I'm beginning to wonder about the SPOILER that Harry's kept ever since SPOILER.  And then there's making an enemy out of SPOILER. Better watch his step!   I'm disappointed that the Powers That Be have SPOILER but then an old 80's P.I. series occurs to me... and no, I don't mean Remington Steele; I mean the other one with a couple.

11 Do you really think Harry's made an enemy of SPOILER?  I'm betting that what he did there was exactly what SPOILER wanted - SPOILER does not take kindly to orders, after all, and that whole situation could hardly have been a bigger mess if SPOILER were in on it, and SPOILER was apparently right on the scene, so why not?

I think that I know who fixed the SPOILER, but that's only conjecture so far.

Harry's SPOILER that he has been keeping is due for a plotline - but then, so it the other SPOILER.  Also, there's the suggestion that his duties will be expanded to include SPOILER, as well as the certainty that he'll have to spend a lot of time working on SPOILER'S SPOILER. All in all, no shortage of future plotlines.

I'm not up on 80's detective shows, but I think that the PTB pretty much had to have SPOILER.  Besides, it's a return to the thematic roots of the series.