This project derives from a series of weblogs that John O'Loughlin first published at Helium.com under the alias 'johalin', and subsequently revised and reformatted in the interests of publication in book form. That said, this collection of revised weblogs both ante-dates and post-dates material contained in the The Best of All Possible Worlds (2008), his previous publication, since some of it was written earlier in 2008, although the majority of its content was actually written in 2009, with material that seems to extend beyond previous texts or simply, as so often in the past, to correct or modify existing material, sometimes filling in one or two blanks. – A Centretruths editorial.