It's been a while since I last did any real coding; I've found that doing it for a living somewhat interferes with those creative juices that are needed to oil the thinking process. Anyway, I've been inspired by an interesting web site www.oceangram.com into writing a simple "message in a bottle" type random chat client that can be added to any web site. If you want to play around with it just drop me a note and I'll send you the code you need to paste into your webpage. The client is inobtrusive, if you want to send a message just key it into the text box in the top right of this page and press the send button. You will be told if there is a message waiting for you, to read it just click on the "message available" text. Also on the theme of new stuff, my sister eventually did hatch, not the 6/6/06 as predicated but a few days later. Here's an "arty" black and white photo of Hannah. **UPDATE**: The Javascript chat client has been removed after I noticed it was slaughtering my webserver... Methinks it'll need a bit of recoding :-)