Some of my friends get up to such interesting things.

Matt has been making his way across Europe and through the Middle East into the Far East across land. Alas, the journals he writes aren't up online at the moment - I hope he'll consider putting them up at a later stage because they make for some interesting reading. In the meantime check out his wonderful photo blog.

Matt's brother Jo is currently out in Japan teaching English at a school and brushing up on his Japanese. He also plays in a band out there and they've put some of their material up on Google Video.

Steve 'Sinbad' Streeting has taken the plunge and decided to give up his day job and concentrate on his Ogre3D based consultancy business. Ogre is a 3D engine that sits on top of Direct3D and OpenGL and exposes them in a platform-independent way as full first-class object oriented citizens whilst also adding useful tools, classes and utilities into the mix. He also wrote the foreword to the Ogre3D book that has just been published.

GrinGod and myself have snapping pics of abandoned buildings from the island of Guernsey and put them up onto Flickr! to provide an alternative look at our picturesque island.

Whilst not a friend Adam Buxton from the Adam & Jo Show fame has a blog up too with plenty of clips from the show as well as some new material and some amusing rants.

[)amien