The calendar assures me that today, Aug. 11, represents the last of what is referred to in folklore as the “dog days” — that hottest part of summer attributed, in part, to the rising  of Sirius (the Dog Star) in the hours just before daybreak. Does this have any basis in reality? I have my doubts, but it’s a decent and often-told story.

(None of the above is relevant to anything in particular, but at least it’s slightly more interesting that just writing the word TEST in big, block letters. Which is to say there are parts of webmastering with which I am still trying to familiarize myself. Hopefully soon I’ll do better.)