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Happy Birthday, nullPointer! A little edumacational info from Wikipedia for those not familiar with what a null pointer is to programming: A null pointer has a value reserved for indicating that the pointer does not refer to a valid object. Null pointers are routinely used to represent conditions such as the end of a list of unknown length or the failure to perform some action; this use of null pointers can be compared to nullable types and to the Nothing value in an option type. Null pointers are often considered similar to null values in relational databases, but they have somewhat different semantics. Null pointer in most programming languages means "no value", while null value in relational database means "unknown value". This leads to important difference in practice: two null pointers are considered equal in most programming languages, but two null values in relational database are not (since they represent unknown values, it is unknown whether they are equal). We can see by the definition that the alias does not necessarily fit the man as he is a valid and valuable object, far from being classed as a nothing, although, he may feel closer to a nothing since accepting the reins of Moderator <insert your favorite Rodney Dangerfield quote here>. OK, I have copied, pasted, and said enough to get this windbag on with his day knowing that we wish him a great, wonderful, happiness-filled day.. yada, yada, yada....