Still, mustn't grumble, eh? I mean, it's not as if he's a bad designer, when you can get him to do any work. But I'm not going to spend the entire time going on about Darrell, it wouldn't be fair or, to allow a little reality to creep on to the page, interesting either. No, there's no point in complaining about that when I've got so much else to complain about. Like for example the fact that we've been caught out again by the time scale of putting this version of the Room on the CD-Rom. So, Darrell's done this really great Ashes cycling 'Rod' and by the time you get to see it, the Ashes'll be over. Ah well, I hope we won.

But what of the Room? What new delights are there for you to peruse? Well, there's the usual weekly slagfest in Media slag, and the missing episode eight of the Stoney Blokes has finally surfaced, to the enormous disappointment of anyone who's ever checked out any of the other episodes. There are also a couple of new features for your reading pleasure: one on the BBC's plans for the web, which sound pretty damned serious to me, and the other about this bloke Don Peppers, who reckons that the next step for the web is total personalisation.

Oh and sorry about the Web camera. Pretty clever eh? Stick it on the front page with a big notice saying "It works!!!" only to discover that after two days of proper functioning, it'd blown up again. Ah well. Life would be dull if it all went according to plan. Yeah, right. As anyone with any sense agrees, life would be a lot less dull if things occasionally went right. Like maybe winning the Ashes once every twenty years. We can but hope.

Ben