I haven’t been as consumed with the whole Harry Potter thing as some others, but I did enjoy the first couple of books. When they started crossing 700 pages I was less motivated to schlep all that paper around. Nevertheless, I did manage to make it down to one of the areas in town last Friday night and observe the beginning of “Potterville” next to one of our better independent booksellers called Left Bank Books. They had closed off the street and had a series of booths and merchants and it was all rather fun, and I got to play a game of lawn chess — but on the street.

Here is a charming entry from Network World that will amuse some of you.