(Inkspot) In that case don't do any more work than you absolutely have to. I hope at least you've retained your salary level.

MCIOS went down at 2.54 am today.

For about 5 minutes. You'd think a guy could take a server down for maintenance at 3 am in the user base's time zone.

FWIW, the timestamps on old moves from the first half of 1998 are now correct.

(Dan) Thanks for your efforts, as ever. Like Michael Howard, I am a creature of the night.

No problem, I didn't mean it the way it probably sounded. Anyway I've just noticed that this so-called asiago cheese I've been munching on was made in Wisconsin. Now a bit of research shows that asiago is Denominazione di Origine Protetta, so they shouldn't be calling it that and I'd be surprised if they could even sell it in the EU under that name. Still, it's a good cheese, but now I have to go and find the real thing so I know the difference.

BTW, I'm off to New Mexico for a week, so this may be the last you hear from me till next Monday. The server will almost surely fall over in about 2-3 hours time. Expect reboots only during office hours in New Zealand. ttfn.

Read on its own, that last message really really looks like rab's part of some international espionage.

[Tuj] What? You mean you're not... one of us?

SHHH!

It is very dark for the time of year.

Incidentally, I'm staying in room 404 which I'm having difficulty locating, for some reason.

[rab] Have you tried leaving the hotel and then coming back in again?

[rab] or trying an alternative door?

[Rab] Clear out all your cash, I guess in the hotel bar...

I tried to translate Nights' post with an online translat-y-thing and it came up with "Ave druse! I ÷óñòâóþ as i no clever"

...although ÷óñòâóþ was actually an untranslated russian word, not nonsense.

That's actually pretty close to the mark. It reads "Hello friends! I rather think I'm not clever."

As indeed I appear not to be. Plans for the weekend, anyone?

I'm going to a masquerade ball! Very exciting. What are you up to?

Doing a workshop with actors, for which the freshly-written script still hasn't arrived from the States as yet! Also, writing a sample song from Lolita! - the musical as a college exercise.