The New Year 2008 begins with a short interlude.

First of all, an attempt to standardise and improve my email management. Having managed multiple web sites as well as my work and private email, I find myself using a slowly but inevitably increasing number of email addresses.

Managing each email through a separate account is obviously a rather unpractical solution. Over the years I have tried a number of options to simplify my email routines. Eventually I settled down on a compromise whereupon all incoming email had been redirected to a single email account. This account is now being transferred to Google Mail and my old "master" account, which coincidentally but unfortunately was connected to my work, has been terminated.

How does it affect you? Not at all if you only keep sending your emails to me through the address listed on this site:. If you don't, please update your address book to make sure that the email address is set correctly.

The second news is definitely more inspirational. I'm away from home this week, spending a few days with my family in Warsaw, Poland. Warsaw is a dynamic, fascinating mixture of contemporary and past. There are many wartime memories to be witnesses here. No chance for spotting a Spitfire, though: the nearest aircraft museum (and the one which I've heard is well worth visiting) is located in Cracow, some 350 km south of the capital. However, Polish Army Museum in Warsaw has currently an exhibition devoted to Stanislaw Skalski, Polish leading fighter ace of World War II, and famous for his "Skalski's Circus", the elite Polish fighter unit in the Western Desert. I hope to find time for a visit to the museum tomorrow.

Stanislaw Skalski, then at the rank of Wing Commander, in the cockpit of his Mustang Mk. III, 1944

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