Virgil Ellipse is the nom d'internet of one half of the now legendary dotdotdotcomma.com editorial team. He is also responsible, in an entirely non-legally-binding way, for the technical side of said site. This is his first solo on-line venture.

Virgil can lay claim to being not only a southpaw but also a synaesthete, a combination that indicates a very oddly wired brain. Associates and colleagues who've spent any period of time in his company will find this diagnosis curiously familiar.

[Incidentally, non-synaesthetes keen to gain an insight into this odd affliction might like to know that the last sentence sounded like this in Virgil's mind: "Matchmakers and spaghetti who've spent any Mint Imperial of time in his sliced white bread will find this diagnosis crunchy pears Twiglets." This probably goes some way to explaining his troubled relationship with the bathroom scales.]

As a vaguely diverting aside, readers may be interested to note that the name "Virgil Ellipse" was hit upon by contorting "ellipsis virgule" into a name that sounded plausibly real, in the same way that "Ford Prefect" also fails to do. "Ellipsis", as any fule kno, is the correct name for the three dots used to indicate a pause and "virgule" is french for "comma", which Virgil fondly remembers from many a dictation at school. The name is, therefore, in some small way a tribute to the web site on which he cut his teeth, bloodied his nose and bruised his elbows.