So another 12 months is almost over, and the Ferret will be 4 years old tomorrow. Golly! Thanks to all our fabulous readers and supporters, you’ve made it an amazingly fun year. And expect some cool new features in 2006. So wherever you are and whatever you’re doing this holiday, have a great one. And don’t forget – a dancing ferret is a happy ferret. We’re closing down for the break, because even Ferrets need some rest now and then. We’ll be back on Monday 2nd January 2006,…

So I’ve stuck a Quimble poll up on the sidebar for your amusement. Why? Because I could that’s why, and because it’s a neat application. So use it, why doncha, and maybe even leave comments there when you vote. Maybe tell me if you like it or think it sucks. Or suggest decent poll topics. Or anything. Just to let me know…sniff…that you care.

Our thoughts are with all those who have suffered, and are currently suffering, at the feet of Hurricane Katrina. Mother Nature can be a terrible mistress sometimes…at which point we are indeed reminded of our frailty. What else can one possibly say?

Thanks to all the kind folk who sent in caring words about our London bombings yesterday. We’re kind of used to it over here unfortunately, so life goes on, tragic as things are. But thanks anyway, we appreciate it muchly. And it could have been much worse!

Welcome to The Red Ferret Journal – tantalisingly tasteful, tacky and taut tech trivia. Favour please? If you’re linking to the old enorgis domain, please change it to redferret.net. Thank you so much for listening good people of the earth. And may your camels drink deeply from the well of happiness!

Welcome to The Red Ferret Journal – tantalisingly tasteful, tacky and taut tech trivia. Should The Ferret have competitions? Everyone else is running them, should we small mammals do likewise? Comment one way or another and we’ll decide. No comments are a vote for no. If we do go for it, we’ll have to find some suitably Ferrety type goodies to donate to the cause, won’t we?

Welcome to the Red Ferret Journal – tantalisingly tasteful, tacky and taut tech trivia. Apologies to those who’ve posted comments which haven’t appeared. There seems to be something wrong with the comments plumbing (or rather the anti-spam bit). It’s not affecting everyone, so do keep on keeping on, and we’ll try to get it fixed asap. Ta-ra.

Welcome to the Red Ferret Journal – tantalisingly tasteful, tacky and taut tech trivia.

OK, I think it’s all cool, the site seems to be working fine again. We’re going to keep monitoring and hope that things stay happy. Take it easy, all!

Welcome to the Red Ferret Journal – tantalisingly tasteful, tacky and taut tech trivia. We’re having a spot of bother with the site at the moment, something to do with memory leaks, mySQL and/or errant plug-ins. We’re trying to track it down as fast as we can…[Update: hmm..think we’ve cracked it…]

Sorry folks, have had to disable trackbacks for the time being due to unwelcome attention from a bevy of poker players. Comments still working though!.

Welcome to the new, fresher tasting, longer lasting, great value Ferret. Please update your bookmarks to reflect the new URL at www.redferret.net. There are quite a few changes under the hood as well as in design, so read on if you’re interested.

Thanks very very much to all of you who’ve taken the time to comment on the site performance (what a lovely bunch!). I’d love for just a few more to get a statistically significant sample. Purlease? Don’t make the Ferret beg, he’s far too old.  Ta! :-)

Quick favour to ask regular Ferrety readers. How’s the performance of the site? Is it loading OK or slow? Any times you’re finding it unobtainable? Comment here or email, whatever. It’ll help me heaps to get a feel for what, if anything, needs doing. Cheers and bears.

Sorry for the downtime and access issues with the Ferret recently. Not our fault, seems to be leaves on the line somewhere South of Albany. Hopefully be sorted out RSN!