back in the y'know..

Seem to have made it back to the US in one piece, and jetlag is slowly dissipating, which is good. Here's some elements of vague interest:

- currently tempting me on the Neo Geo front is last year's tag-team beat-em-up, Rage Of The Dragons, which is available as a cart for the MVS arcade board very cheaply indeed from the Neo Store. Cartridges are so much more fun to collect than discs - they feel big and substantial, they look cool, and.. I'm a geek, aren't I? Anyhow, I think I've persuaded myself not to get it - but only because I remembered I can get Metal Slug 2 second-hand for only a few bucks more. Mmm, Metal Slug.

- I was interviewed briefly for a Salon.com article from Sam M. Williams on archaic software preservation while I was in the UK, and it's just been posted. Now, if we could get over the legal issues and I could actually start doing more substantial stuff with the Catweasel MK3 and good archiving practice. Unfortunately, it's going to be on the backburner whatever, since I'm so busy with all the other projects, but maybe we can kickstart it later in the year.

- finally, I need to sort through all the digital pics I took in England (low-res as always, philistine that I am), but here's three pictures from the wonderfully bizarre Portmeirion of 'The Prisoner' fame, which really _is_ in the middle of nowhere in Wales: