There are lots of things that go ping.
Most often I find pinging things are the result of hits to military sites. Sometimes there is no way around visiting a site to make sure of something.
Recently I needed to check something out for the ending of Exacabyte. (no spoiler) It was something that made a certain Fort very interesting to some terrorists. I now know what it is/was and why, problem solved. - I hope that explains it.

It has become apparent that I am hopeless and keeping in touch, keeping up with, and even reading list emails. - When I opened gmail this morning i discovered I was another 10 emails behind in my reading! It's not getting any better. I managed to read through about half, and came up with a brilliant idea - yeah for Exacabyte - no I can't say... but at least this time there is no hit to ping me back! (probably lucky really considering my stroke of brilliance!)
I'm going to have to drop by the list and re-introduce myself - cos it's an awesome place to find info on just about anything.
I finally got around to changing Novacaine to Exacabyte -here... I was toying with the idea that Novacaine was a better name. - but then I would've had to rename Terrorbyte, and I love that one... and plus the next one is Satellite. (It will make perfect sense when you know what it's about)
I'm going through book withdrawals... it's been at least three weeks since I've purchased new books. It's crazy!
Plug here for one of the best novels I've ever read -
Inside Out girl by Tish Cohen is now available. It is an awesome read, impossible to put down, laugh out loud funny (but keep the Kleenex handy).
I'm sure I would've loved it even if I didn't have first hand experience of an Olivia like scream.