Suddenly a man wakes up one day and in a voice not to unsimilar to that of John Wayne to say "ok kinkade, it`s time to get on ya horse and drink ya milk, we gotta head into the sun"
Or, in my case, it`s time to get off my arse and do some more articles for our mag, y`now, the one that I helped create all those years ago, but a few words of credit first to some folks who are basically the backbone of our mag.
On the few occasions (naughty boy) when I visit our website I was bloody amazed at just how far our mag as evolved from it`s earlier days, admittedly, it`s a multi-format mag now, but you have to change with the times don`t you think so. I was sorting out loads of old computer-orientated letters the other day which I had received over some time in the past from my loads of miggy contacts, and one of them just happend to be from our Ed, yep, Ferret, he at the time was the jont editor of the mag at that time called The Ripper, I was making a new contact with him and stated that I was part of The Crypt diskmag which of course at that time he had no idea of.
He was being taken for a ride by a prat called Barry I think he was called, anyway, Barry was doing hardly nowt, Ferret was working his Scottish testicles off and getting nowhere, so being on the lookout for new talent, I was trying to poach Ferret to join our team, so cutting a long story short, that`s how Ferret got to know us.and the rest is history.
Now, at the time, Ray Hawkins and myself first creating our mag which most of you might or might not know was called Bits & Bytes we thought that on the miggy under Workbench was the dogs B$££*&s, and at the time it was.anyway..boring stuff I can imagine for most of you
What I`m trying to say in the least tartyish but From The Heart way, is that we`ve come a bloody long way from Rays & mine first creation, and in my own sad little mans own way, I feel proud to be part of such a successful webmag. But I`m the first to admit that in our earlier days I was there for our mag 100%, and at one time did take on two other assistant roles because we were very very understaffed.
I reckon nowadays that we might even have someone to wipe Ferrets bum, or to hold his cuppa while he`s busy typing his next article, or someone to wipe the sweat away from the Webmaster forehead while he`s toiling over a Smoking keyboard getting all the article together for our next issue
Now, wot I`m saying is that as one of the founder members of the mag, ALL the folks involved in it`s completion of every issue are doing a brilliant job, from Ferret & Steve Evans, Ian Urie Francis, in fact Everyone, so keep up the brill work, we`ve come such a long way from the Bits & Bytes days.well done lads