Well folks. its been a thoroughly enjoyable few years, but the time has come for me to log off.
Not from choice, you'd better believe it, but I've just been beaten by technology.
CHR has got just too big for our out-dated networks, and our Socialist Government owned providers have not moved with the times to upgrade our infrastructure.
The Government has passed legislation to ban the physical chastisement of our kids, and they've passed legislation making same-sex marriages legal, but when it comes to actually advancing our technology to the cyber age.......Nah, forget it. We're still on dial up, 32.6 kbs per second. And I've seen it down to 9.3.
I could go satellite, but at $900 startup, and $115 per month, She Who Must Be Obeyed says it isn't justifiable.
Everything is just so slooooow. It took fifty minutes to read just six pages yesterday, and I don't wish to waste my time staring at a blank computer screen.
(That's not to say that the whole of New Zealand is without broadband, just us poor forgotten peasants in the backblocks rural areas.)
I'm gunna miss you-all, I have learnt a lot, just lurking and browsing, there's some very talented and clever people on here who also have a talent in being able to write and describe in easy to understand ways what they're doing. Or have done. These people are very generous with their time too, no question goes unanswered.
You-all know who you are, but you're just too many to name individually.
And when (if) we get broadband......."I'll be back!"

So, from Opunake in New Zealand, God's Own Country, this is johnboy, thanking you one and all.

Adios.

Ps I can still be contacted by e-mail, just please, don't make 'em too big, I can't handle much more than 250/300 KB

Pps Hank, (Tow'd,) send me a picture of that wee Fordson when you've finished it, okay?