At work, people were really complimentary about the new website. It seems to have a been a bit of a success so far as the action rate has gone up since Friday (more people ringing/mailing) and - well - woo, frankly. I like it. It has elements of C2 about it, but if a formula works well, why break it?

I think I might buy myself a smaller, lesser box to be a Linux servery routery type thing. Running Linux on the desktop is all very nice but frankly, VMware isn't up to running Illustrator/PSP at an acceptable rate and I hate having to reboot all the time. Looks as if Windows is going to be my desktop machine with a Linux box to be a cheap development thing. It's all sounding far more complicated than I had initially expected/hoped it to be but I'm sure it's all good practice.

"I don't know what this means, but it's forcing me to believe it."

I'm actually enjoying work again at the moment. It seems a bit sad that my departure is imminent. Oh well. The job's open if I want to go back, apparently.

Chatted some more with WeatherPhilip about France. Turns out we're probably going to take two cars after all. I still think that's a little bit silly as we don't need two cars but it does give us extra flexibility once we're there. Matthew and I will probably sail from Portsmouth - Pip will probably go through the tunnel. I think we're hoping to meet half way or something.

Woo!

The Americans finally got round to killing Timothy McVeigh, which struck me as a completely pointless exercise and somewhat sad. I watched a very scary programme on BBC 1 in the evening with triumphant smugginess from various members of victims' families proclaiming justice had been served. Thankfully, there were some sane ones who were against him being legally murdered. They do seem to be a particularly blood-thirsty nation, actually. And they're all mad as well. Scary that they have big red buttons.