Neither rain nor snow nor glo m of ni t...

... although a couple of metaphorical big green things with teeth did mean that it's been one (hell of a) year since my last post.

A brief summary, in roughly chronological order:

1. Chinese buffet nearly killed me, due to my stuffing myself with about 2LB of cheap seaweed. How was I supposed to know it causes nearly disastrous dehydration? And, incidentally, a nearly catastrophic failure to digest food four months later. But never mind. I'm still here, and I'm feeling much better now.

2. Went to see the Josh Kirby exhibition in Liverpool on its very last day, September 30th 2007. Most excellent, and honestly, the man's work has to be seen up close to be truly appreciated; the book covers do it no justice whatever. It made many impressions in my mind, but the deepest is: awesome brushwork!

3. Terry Pratchett announced in October that he had been diagnosed with a rare form of early onset Alzheimers Disease, describing it as "an embuggerance". Hard to say anything about that which doesn't sound hopelessly trite. :(

4. Indulged in a new domain name: herebefootnotes.net. Yes indeed: the shiniest of shiny top-level domain names, with! [drumroll] privacy protection! Now, instead of being able to merely quiz the Whois database with a domain name in order to see the registrant's full name, home address, email address and phone number, all you'll get from my domain name is the address of the ISP through which it was made. How I love my web host! (Heart Internet - go visit them now!)

5. Finally erected a website on the world wide web, on my shiny (and marginally more expensive, especially with the privacy protection) domain. And it is... the Discworld MUD! On the grounds that I already had a lot of ideas in my head and didn't have to spend time wading through books to write it. Having said that, though, it has turned out to be rather vast... but I'm about halfway through it, and progressing nicely. Check it out at: http://www.herebefootnotes.net/

And there we have it. Possibly I'll be back next month to report some real activity :)