Howdy folks, been a long time, so thought I'd pop in and give you a quick update with what's going on.  Things are generally going pretty good.  Charee started a new job a few months ago at a big corporate insurance place and is already team leader of a small team there.  She was also nominated for some initiative award or something -- good job Charee!  I'm enjoying working for myself, even with the crap world economy, half my work comes from overseas (US mostly) and the rest is thru local contacts.  I've hooked up with a tech group here and managing a small team of developers for them.  I've also got my paws in various other things so I'm pretty busy, which is good news.  It was touch and go a couple of months ago, but things have picked up again, and it looks like I've got a steady stream of projects which will take me well into the new year.

Poison Neko released a new song a couple of weeks ago ("My Soul Rises Up"), which has gotten very good feedback, so check it out if you haven't already: http://www.myspace.com/poisonneko
We're currently working on new material.

I've also teamed up with another mate (you might remember him as Mr Potatohead from the Thailand diaries) under the name Potato Peal, and we're working on our first track.  I'll let you know when that is up too.

This week my boss (ie. me) bought me a nice pressie for doing such a good job lately: an MSI Wind U100 ultraportable notebook.  It's quite a cute gadget and actually pretty powerful, powerful enough to run most of my dev stuff on (the Intel Atom 1.6ghz chip seems faster than my old P3 1ghz laptop!).  It comes with XP Home but I've dual-booted it with Ubuntu 8.04, installed IIS on XP (which was a PIA) and put another gig ram in it today.  So it's running pretty nice, and being so small (it's only 1 kg with the battery) I can carry it in my backpack wherever I go, as well as use it as an ebook reader at bedtime. :P  So it's proven to be quite useful!  (and complimentary to my other 3 laptops :p ).

I'm also involved in 2 (soon to be 3) role-playing groups, which means I am getting out of the house (plus driving to the office, which is local, to mentor my team at this other gig), and I hope to resume badminton every other Sunday also.

After the winter lull in my work-out schedule, in which time I amassed extra winter poundage, I have resumed my gym outings and even acquired a personal trainer (god help me, he almost cripples me each session!).

Lastly, I'd like to send a shout-out to my mate Gaz who recently finished a 20km marathon.  Good job man!