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.

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...