At long last, “The Simpsons: The Complete Second Season” DVD set arrived yesterday. As with the first season set, the special features are pretty weak (I’m finding that to be the case on most DVDs now, actually), but those shortcomings are far outweighed by the fact that the season has been preserved in its entirety for consumer posterity. The commentary by various key players (Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, et al) is generally pretty good too. Let’s just hope it doesn’t take them a whole other year to release the third season…

Since I was so greatly pleased by the “Simpsons” DVD arrival, it was only inevitable that misfortune (however foolishly self-inflicted) should befall me shortly thereafter. Late last night I discovered that I had somehow managed to delete my Internet Explorer favorites file. I spent most of today rebuilding it from memory and I’m sure I haven’t recovered even half the URLs yet. Boo to that.