I'm off to Boston next week so for those who annoy me continuously, and for those I annoy on a regular basis I'm sure we'll all enjoy a well earned break. I've been out before, around 3 and a half years ago but this time I have a purpose, whereas last time it was just one enormous drunken brawl. Don't get me wrong, I intend to drink myself daft just like last time, however I have a deviously evil plan this time around ... and that's to steal the Macromedia sign off of their building at 275 Grove Street before it gets replaced by an Adobe one. Getting it back on the plane to Glasgow I've not yet figured out, but I'll aim low by just planning to acquire the sign first. Of course, I won't be risking arrest until after I've paid a visit to the lovely MM folks themselves, including Mr Rock n Roll himself, Ed Sullivan. Being a User Group Manager, I've given Ed a lot of grief over the past year so I think it's only fair that I buy him some beer and apologise for the t-shirt I send him back in May. Ed unfortunately couldn't make it to Scotch on the Rocks so I got one of his co-workers to send me a photo of him and proceeded to stick a C-U-Jimmy hat on him. Very flattering I must say. Obviously I also intend to deliberately bump into a few of the CF Product Team as well, and grab some free product support and MX 7 Enterprise Licenses in exchange for beer. I will also introduce them to the wonder that is Irn Bru, the world's only guaranteed hangover cure. A nice fry up with tattie scones, black pudding and lorne sausage works a treat too. ps I wonder if the Big Dig is finished yet, and whether it will actually look any different to the big holes that were all over the place back in 2002.

I'm off to London for 5 days tomorrow for a wee bit of a break with the girlfriend. I'm well looking forward to getting away as work has been fairly hectic at the moment as I've been working concurrently on 3 different projects ... I think the project team bit off more than they could chew. Anyway, two of the systems are out for testing and besides any bugs, change requests, etc that come back I'll be starting work on the third one when I get back. I'll no doubts take quite a few photos whilst in London, and I'll maybe just fire them up somewhere as I don't see my photo gallery appearing for a while. Might just put all my photos up in the interm then???