A brief note on the new front page:

The haiku on the front page sounds like this: "Harusame wo ki ga fukaku nomi hana ga saku." It means something like this: "The tree drinks deep of the spring rain, and flowers bloom."

I've shown this haiku to several people at work, and have gotten mixed reactions. One teacher repeatedly asked me if I came up with this idea myself. (I did. Really!) Others look puzzled, as if I used some Japanese concept incorrectly. (Entirely possible. Maybe even likely. I'm sure that the grammar is bent all out of shape, at least.)

The picture is of Himeji Castle. I took it last year (in the summer, alas) when a few of us spent a weekend exploring after the renewer's conference in Kobe had finished.