Incredible! difficult to believe - an entire year has gone by since i first encountered a cyber alien and ventured to say "hi"! But am happy to say, didn't waste time on merely getting older would like to believe, am a year smarter, on the net a little bolder. The initial, ah, so many nights! filled with frenzied yahoo chat have gradually been replaced with html, java, multifaceted internet. Also, have met some wonderful people in this virtual world ignoring the "beware of weirdos!" which i was repeatedly told. And guess, am a little naughty too - grammar, syntax, punctuation all they taught me in school succumbed to a net linguistic creation; obstinately refuse to clutter my writings with démodé capital letters causing increased consternation ???!???! amongst my betters. Comma, dot, dash, slash, colon and bracket, that wonderful tool! to be used in great abundance ...... am an educated internet fool :-)) BTW, FYI :-), :-( :@, :->, :-/, %-), >;->, LOL and ROTFL madly sure seems hip to express oneself in abbreviated fashion, and badly! And yet - what humanity has attempted to achieve for generations to bring people closer, overcome social barriers, unite all the nations; Global network has accomplished that and more, without force or war we all must admitt, that is a most wondrous and beautiful "whatfor". Not to mention education and the vastness of useful information ready and accessible to all who can lay their mits on a puter station. Thus i salute this technical milestone, greatest wonder of this world it fills me with hope - we may yet escape some of the doom foretold! All things being equal, life's coup de théâtre letting me have my way shall be here next year on May 30th, waiting for a "Happy Birthday"! Equipped with audio, video and whatever else is available on the net Wouldn't surprise me, by then we might be able to have a RL chat!