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Been a little while since I've made a proper Blog entry, things have been pretty busy the last few weeks, so there's a few things to catch up on.

Firstly, the Friday before last saw me attend my first ATI press event, a briefing in London about CATALYST 5.13 and AVIVO (The fruits of which you can read here). Hanging out with all the guys from the UK press was both overwhelming and daunting and very cool all at the same time - It's quite a head trip to meet those familiar names from the community like Fudo from The Inquirer and Rys from HEXUS (Who I probably owe some money for referring to Elite Bastards as 'the best domain name ever' at least half a dozen times in a ten minute period of introducing me to people ;)), as well as a handful of ATI guys like Andrzej, Godfrey and Richard Huddy. So, apart from feeling like the new boy in class amongst all those old hands, it was great to be part of the 'inner circle' as it were, and I'm hoping it won't be my last outing on the circuit. Now, if only NVIDIA would give me the time of day...

The big down side of the day was that I had to make a dash for the door pretty much as soon as the briefing was over (which meant I managed to miss getting a chance to say hi to Dave Baumann - D'oh!), to get back home and complete packing everything to move out of my old place early Saturday morning. Luckily, everything went smoothly (apart from breaking the sofa, which I didn't need anyway), and by Saturday evening all of my stuff was either back at my parents place or safely incarcerated in storage. Now, a week on, everything is just dandy, with my room here looking great and all my IT needs set up perfectly (better than it ever was at the bungalow). It's a big weight off my mind getting out of that dump and back here, and now I'm looking forward to entering 2006 with a renewed focus on the things that are important to me.

The past week has involved mainly sorting out the final parts of the move (mainly redirecting post, changing addresses for credit card bills and the like, hence the subject name from a Dubstar B-side), as well as working on the AVIVO article whenever I could. Saturday morning involved a race around the shops to sort out all of my Christmas shopping, which I sorted out with surprising ease. Then today has seen me working my arse off benchmarking a couple of boards to try and get the review out of the door before Christmas, as well as putting some sheen on a review from one of the other guys which should see the light of day in the next day or two. Once I'm done with writing up the video card review, there's one other short item I'd like to delve into before Christmas hits, after which I might even shock myself by taking a bit of a break for a few days (Although knowing me something else will pop up and grab my attention, and before I know it I'll be hammering away at another article).

Which brings me to tonight, and finally some proper time to kick back and relax by updating my Blog while listening to the new Belle and Sebastian album, The Life Pursuit - An excellent CD, possibly their best yet. Great stuff to chill out to.