That last entry was written in Sauce Reader too, so its certainly proving versatile.  So, what's been going on for the last few months then? 
Well, I finished my radiotherapy, with no problems and no serious side effects.  I was seriously tired on both Fridays, but other than that there was nothing.  The hospital was a dream - get there, wait for two or three minutes, go to the room and get zapped, leave - all in all I wasn't there for more than 20 mins each day.  The longest part of the entire procedure was when I lay down on the bed of the machine and they lined me up in the right position.  To get me in exactly the right point each time, they had tattoed five small points on my body.  Three in a line down my stomach, and one each on my left and right sides.  between them they form a reference to some points within my body that they can iridiate with millimetric accuracy.  They points also define three dimensional space, so they could treat me from underneath too.  The time consuming part each day was to line me up with some lasers criss-crossing the room so that they could then run a standard program through the machine.  The program would consist of instructions like "move to a point x,y,z and irradiate for twenty seconds".  Clever stuff.  Anyway, it was easy.  I have to go back next month to have some more tests done, and hopefully that will be the end of my cancer.  Fingers crossed, touch wood, etc etc.
Anna is away at the moment, on a dig in a place called Barcombe, somewhere down south of London.  Seems like she's having fun from what she tells me.  They've got great weather too, though its a bit changable at the moment.
I bought a new wireless network last week, and it arrived yesterday.  Its a netgear wireless / wired router with a built-in aDSL modem.  Translated that means that it does the work of routing the interwebnet connection around the house, instead of the desktop machine,  It should in theory be faster and more effecient.  I'm not sure about that yet though... I downloaded some stuff and it seemed slower than usual.  Have to get some files from a known place soon and start tweaking. It should also have better protection against intrusion than what I had previously.  We'll just have to see about that one :-)

I downloaded a program called Sauce Reader the other day, as there is a lot of xml news starting to be made available on the net.  Its a type of program called an RSS Agregator - one that displays news from all the sites you want in a single window.  They've been around for a while now, but the sources of news I ususally read have only just started publishing XML.  One interesting consequence of this swap over is that I've been paying attention to the .NetBlogs a bit, while all the microsofties blather on about RSS agregators.  And holy shit, what a bunch of children they are too.  Its as if the whole world didn't exist before they discovered RSS readers.  Last month it was something else... can't remember what though.  Since when has software become fashionable?  Since when do we use something because everyone else is using it?  Or could it truly be that these programs are the killer app that the internet has been waiting for?  Check it out for yourself at http://www.synop.com/Products/SauceReader/.