Tooling through the news archive I see that fairly current birthday wishes are due Ritual's Levelord (Monday) and 3D Realms' Whaleboy (yesterday), so many happy returns to each, as well as 3D Realms' Lee Jackson, who also gets our best wishes for the medical procedure mentioned in his .plan tomorrow, just in time for his birthday Friday. It's my birthday Sunday guys, if you come up to the big apple, the beers are on me (that's to the celebrants, not to everyone reading this... the beer budget is only so hefty here). My late start this morning is exacerbated by having to address another server glitch, we were serving up a blank page for a while this morning, but after a bit of scrambling, this has obviously been fixed. On that subject, surprisingly, I have a bit of a follow-up on yesterday's comments about when the wonky server be addressed even sooner than expected. The first estimate on when we will beef up our horsepower here is less than a month, but hopefully that's the outside time-frame, since I don't know if I have that much patience for this nonsense, and I doubt you do either. In any event, so far things are moving ahead as rapidly as can be expected, and I will continue to post updates on the status of this, because as I have said, .plan updates and the messageboards will likely be buggy until then.

Link of the Day: The dermatology in the cinema web site. That's right... zits of the stars! Thanks Tim Smith.