Markets in nothing

Except for an hour or so just after it opened, the London Stock Exchange has been down all morning. This is more than academically interesting to me, since - suspecting an imminent global markets collapse caused by the looming Freddie/Fanny problems in the states - I sold every equity-based investment I own last week and still can't get a price for what I offloaded.

I know perfectly well that my happiness will be maximised by checking the price of my investments once a year, not once a day (see Taleb's Fooled by Randomness amongst others). Knowledge is not always good, or beneficial. And yet...I look at the thing because it's there. And now it's not, on the one day it actually matters.