In Hac Spe Vivere Et Mori Statuo

                                                  You click on an impenetrable sign:                                                               "Mobileme is                                                                CLOSED."                                                   This will take some getting used to,                                                   Nonexistent things no longer existing.                                                   Your favorite diner closing is one thing.                                                   Aging, the feminine allure subject to vicissitude.                                                   The New York Giants moving to San Francisco.                                                   You were raised to deal with things like that.                                                    But Mobileme went.                                                   It saw nothing. It surrendered.                                                    The Latin apothegms have become queer.                                                   There will be no grandchildren.                                                    Mobileme is closed.                                                     If they close Google Translator, we are done for.