In which I do a disservice to Adam LeBor

A shameful morning. Consumed as I am by a feverish cold, my mind wanders, my memory fails, and I leave Adam LeBor stranded over a lonely breakfast at the Pain Quotidien on West 58th Street. He calls at 9am to inqire politely where I am, and I have forgotten completely our arrangement. I have stood up this biographer of Milosevic, this historian of Jaffa, this contributor to More Intelligent Life, and my throat is so shot that I can barely say "sorry".

Still, if I have to lose one of my faculties, then on balance I would prefer it be speech. And I recover enough of my voice to do my weekly podcast for The Economist, before heading back to publish Bruce Palling's latest report from the wine trade. Bruce is a lovely man and a wonderful writer. The flurry of commentary attaching to his recent piece on Chateau Lafleur was a compliment to his engaging style, even if some of our commenters might have intended otherwise.

But on to the main news: our plans are well advanced for putting the full text of Intelligent Life magazine articles online, towards the end of the month, in time for the December issue. Quite a big step for quite a small site. Our first intention is fairly simple: get the articles online, tagged so that you can view them by section, and topic, and author, and issue. If you have any thoughts about features we might usefully add, please do write and say.