Yeah, LU's tech people win (lose?) hands down for general unhelpfulness.

Oooooh, sounds interesting. Which, oddly enough, is still true after all this time and all that immersion in standards of manliness and nationalism. Huh, maybe I coulda finished the dissertation in that area. Oh, wait, it was never the topic that drove me round the bend ... it was the rest of it. But if she does come to LU, we shall all have to do coffee/tea/beverage of your choice one day.