After today, I'll be offline for a few days, so I want to take this opportunity to wish all British (and Commonwealth, and any other) monarchists the very best enjoyment of the big day. Television coverage starts at 03:00 hrs here in the Eastern Time Zone, but I expect I'll be up and watching. (And now there are rumours of an even earlier start- that may be going too far but we'll see.) A few random observations for skeptics: observing the amount of free advertising that the UK has garnered in the USA and Canada over the past month, or even over the past week, makes any expense to the British taxpayers look less than trivial. And, I spent last weekend with a sector of the family that are as little aware of their British heritage as it is possible to be, but when I showed the princess-obscessed little girls the real princess, Kate, on TV, they instantly became super-heritage kids. These royal events do have a saluatory effect on the British that goes far beyond the shores of the UK. Have fun everyone!