...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.

Working. What else? Not getting enough done, though. :-(

.. well - nothing worth mentioning. It's kinda nice. :-)

housework until this evening, then I shall be waiting for a certain Dutch Windy Miller to step off the plane :o)

My weekend is taken up with work - beer festival time again, this time only 16 beers, but plent y flive music keeping us entertained. Dunnno how I'm going to get up for 6am delivery tomorrow morning, but i'll cross that bridge later. For now,I need to write a quiz by 9pm.

I spent most of the weekend travelling. Have no idea what timezone I'm in again. However I'm not really complaining. Did I tell you about the place they put us up?

[rab] New elopement menu?

I spent the weekend in the library, emerging only on Saturday night to get extremely drunk extremely quickly. It's coursework season in sunny Bath, and we are all working hard to meet arbitrary deadlines, smoking for all we're worth and drinking ourselves into the ground every Saturday night in a vain attempt to flee the horrific situation we find ourselves in once again. Also, why does everyone else in this library, all five floors of it, seem to be a complete idiot? Just asking. Is Library Rage something admissible in court?

I think I'm a bit depressed.

[IS,P!] Yes, that sounds like just the thing that Niall would think of.

Pardon me, unplanned outage at mcios. I called the data center about another issue and they asked me if it was okay to physically move the server, and I told them to go ahead. It will, I hope, be out for less than an hour.

(Dan) It was alright at midnight (GMT). Thanks again.

[Rosie] Who's GMT?

I am.

[GMT] Do you have the time?

As it happens, I may well have ..

Well, I've got the inclination...

[GMT] Not for much longer!

It's just struck me that as a Mornington Crescent server, we have no game of MC running. Anyone interested? I'd like to give the new 2007 ruleset a go as it's shortly to be published...

[nights] Blimey, that's a bit radical, innit? MC on an MC website? Not sure I can cope. Besides, I've barely got used to HP2000. Do they think they've sorted the new version's DRM issues now, eh?

[SM] Last I heard, most of the national MC bodies had ratified it, with the exceptions of Monaco and East Cornwall. And I think the DRM nightmare will be with us for a while - last I heard, they were trying to make sure you only striled three times, then all your podumes would be deleted without warning. Perhaps better to wait a bit, hm?

All your podume are belong to us.