I get hundreds of “help” requests every week – especially to my TechTV account. I read them all, but instead of sending separate replies, I usually wait until I have about 500 messages cached. Then, I blast out a general response. Here's a snippet of what I sent this time around: Despite yesterday's overly-caffeinated “sports” show, I'll be returning to the studio on Monday to pump out another hour of technophun – technology information for both technophobes and technophiles. It's my new sniglet.

For all the Questions we can't get to; unofficial download for Microsoft Talk It: Trans2k CFH skin: Crash Test Dummies MP3s (from Jeremy Segal): Nintendo Game MP3s (from Clint Carr & Neptune).

Well, the new issue of CPU magazine just arrived on my doorstep. Pardon me while I step away from the computer for another two hours (to read it cover-to-cover). Hopefully, those links will keep you entertained for at least that long. Plus, I just got a message from Meryl which says: “Oh crap! That was for CHRISTINE! So sorry, Chris!” It's bad enough she outranks me on Google… now I'm getting her e-mail. And the band played on (as the helicopters whirred).