Bye George, Hello Barack: It's (Semi-)Official

Yeah, yeah, the official handover is 20 January 2009 but in case anyone doubted who is now effectively the top dog in Washington, here's confirmation:

The US Embassy e-mailed at the end of last week to tell me (and a lot of others) that the President-elect's website was now on-line. I cannot recall this being done before, certainly not within 72 hours of the election. And to have the "official" seal of approval on the site, with publicity from the State Department rather than the Obama campaign....

Well, the times are a-changed.