Fast and faster. Spent a day last week working on a very fast re-redesign of this site as I wanted simplicity. Don't despair -- it's not finished yet and I'll be working on it for weeks, no doubt. Then this weekend I continued the trend of financial mismanagement and bought the new Powerbook G4 that Ive been drooling over for some time. It's a beautiful machine. I want to show it off to everyone which is guaranteed to create spite and jealousy everywhere. So much for not being materialistic!

In very happy news, it appears we will be moving our office to Covent Garden. Goodbye the leafy suburb of Queens Park and hello, London!

I wake up in the morning to the sounds of Radio 4 and the endless debate about American treatment of the Taliban prisoners. They risk losing a lot of respect in the world, apparently and it isn't helped by the fact the Radio 4 manages to find the most stupidly inarticulate Americans to interview. In other news, I spent the weekend buying new clothes (for business) and dancing in a club until 5am with a very cute Scottish boy. Not sure what's going to happen next -- although I do need to soak my feet -- but it was a brilliant night out (and morning in.)

Bad luck. President Bush almost chokes on a pretzel just days after telling us there would only be new taxes "over my dead body." Am I laughing over the irony? Had a fairly quiet weekend -- cooking, cleaning, watching several hours of the fantastic oceanographic documentary, the Blue Planet. Not exciting, but I'm just now feeling rested form the holidays. Must plan a trip soon, I'm thinking Vienna would be lovely in the Winter.

Happy New Year. After an all too brief trip to the US for Christmas with my mom, and a fast roadtrip to Santa Barbara to see Kelly, and a single night in San Francisco to see friends, and a lovely wait in the upper class Virgin lounge at the airport, I'm back in England. Flew back with Robert to meet Kate and Anne who had spent the week in my flat. We've been shopping and sightseeing -- the new British Galleries at the Victoria and Albert are as delightful as promised. New Year's was spent at home eating sublime snacks from Selfridges and drinking too much champagne. Hope you had a blessed and happy new year.