It’s Thursday night, and in Mountain View right now, great new features and enhancements are rolling out, as usual, to the LinkedIn website.

There is much lore about the origins and purpose of the LinkedIn wizard, but you only see him on Thursday nights, when we’re doing a release that requires downtime.

Right now, I’m in Boston, so I’m missing the release and the dinner and the Rock Band sessions that go with it.  But fortunately, the Wizard is there, to help me feel a little closer to home.