Of these, keeping in better touch with people is almost certainly the most important. I've had the same email address since I first got an email account, back in 1998: it's a Hotmail one, and I was pretty pleased to be able to get my name, without any irksome underscores or full stops or inexplicable number strings. But it's increasingly become a burden, with what I can only assume are repeated password hacks and spam mail-outs.

So, from 1 April, I'm going to discontinue using it. I mean, I'll still check it infrequently, but I'm going to stop it feeding into my mail client and won't be sending anything out from that address. This will be a nice thing. From now on, then, if you could direct stuff to me at my first name at mattelton.com, that'd be lovely. Thank you.