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I was sorta hoping that I wouldn’t end up doing this again, but I’ve really had enough of 2006 and would like for it to quickly end so that I can get back to normal. In other words, I’m going to be offline and pretty much completely incommunicado from now until early next year (late January to early February).

There are a few people who know what I’ve been going through lately and might be a bit worried to read this, but there really is no need to be – I’ll be back once I’ve sorted my head out, honest!

So long (for now), and thanks for all the stinky fish!

A few of weeks ago, Christel got me an inflatable sheep as a gift. (Note for the curious: although the sheep I received did not have holes *ahem*, it did come with handcuffs!)

Now, word has apparently got out that I’m “into” inflatable things (which indeed is news also to me!) and edit from ##uk on freenode is going to send me his Trexy goat. \o/

*bounce bounce*

Hmm, I just had an email from “an American chick” that wanted to pay compliments to my shoulder and arm muscles that are apparantly on show in my pic on planet.g.o… must say, I’m terrible at taking pictures of myself – which I had to do in this case – and, personally, I think that that pic and the original are quite bad! But hey, you know who you are Ms. “American chick”, thank you! What a shame I’m no longer available…

Hmmm, I’ve had some suspiciously cheeky comments about this thing I have over here on the right. It’s apparantly called a hackergotchi. 8) I feel old now… this is totally not happening in the right order! But yeah, I’m not wearing varnish… *ahem* Gimp++

With this in mind – and because I’m in a really silly mood, and stuff, and things – I’m going to run a little competition during the day. Here it is:

The first person to e-mail beu[@g.o], or /msg beu@irc.freenode.net with the correct answer to the following question gets one free bug fix. Now, the terms are thus; the bug must be related to a web-based app (something in www-*) and the app itself has to be written in either C, Perl or PHP. That’s it. I’ll fix at max three bugs, so there’ll be a winner, a runner-up, and a “one for luck” third-place prize.

Now for the question: Which picture am I actually drunk in?

(A) Is it this beu? The foreign-looking, tired-feeling, uh, me?
(B) Or is it this camera-shy shortie, chuck? Cilla? Where!! Oh noes!!1@#
(C) This person looks like he’s been out on the town… that, or can’t handle his vino…
(D) Or… could it be this [mc]brat[ney]?

The Choice Is Yours! </scouse> Oh, and you only have until 12AM UTC! 8)