well, happy 2001 and all that. last year was pretty good on a personal level, crap on a professional level. hoping things will be much better this year. new year celebrations were nicely sedate, spent the time with my so and parents.

quick plug to get rid of some crap lying about the flat : if anyone wants an Abit BH6 motherboard and is prepared to collect said item from my flat (battersea, london) then it's yours. the catch? knackered bios. yes i know that makes the thing pretty useless, that's why i bought a replacement (long story as to why it happened, suffice to say i was careless with the upgrade util and i needed a working board quickly). anyhoo, i'm sure it's of use to someone who either knows where to get a replacement bios chip, or is confident enough to risk hotswapping one out of a working machine. email me if you're interested (orlando at mindless dot com).

8 more days to go before the new job. spending the time documenting all that's up here (pointing at noggin). pretty sure the department will implode soon after i leave. i'll be the last of the original team to go, 8 people since i started over 20 months ago. sniff.

off now to figure out what happened to all those emails i sent yesterday, cos they sure as hell aren't in my inbox...