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The December News Archive
The main TOTT News page was getting a tad cluttered, so I've started to archive the oldest news - which means this! It stretches from December 4th to December 31st.

4th DECEMBER - 10th DECEMBER

As Anne Robinson would say, "2700, you are the weakest link - goodbye". Anyway, back to normality (or as normal as it every gets round here. I mean, have you seen the message board? The recent main topic is all about the BELLY from an advert I keep missing...).

Not much this week, I'm afraid. I've added a few more "How to Annoy People"s, including a few contributions from Gareth, but nothing to go "YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAA!", grin madly and drive off the edge of a cliff playing a banjo about... (hmm... there I go again, nicking Gareth's dreams...). Good dirty fun.

Speaking of which, I think I'll stick a hold on the Dai Experience unless Dai becomes a major problem again. I think (touch wood) we've scared him off... he hasn't posted for quite a bit. Ah well, a less pressing need for me to understand Albert Fong now... (agh! CGI! Who invented it?).

One last, pretty momentous thing: I'm starting a new website... Mission: WORMPOSSIBLE! Many of you will probably know I have an extensive collection of all things Wormy here at TOTT, and I don't think it does it justice to leave it all cooped up here. As I already have quite a bit of material on wormy games, expect a launch soon... either next week or the week after. In addition to what I've got, I'll be extending my features, including some extra graphics... hopefully!

A week after lauch, I will be deleting the wormy stuff here at TOTT (no point having two copies of the same stuff)... so make sure you get your stuff sorted, else you'll get lost!

11th DECEMBER - 17th DECEMBER

2800 has gone slinking off with it's tail between its legs... and now, it's time to launch Mission: WORMPOSSIBLE! So far, there's just eight pages (Main, 3 Worms 2 pages, a Gameboy Worms page, links, news, credits and some other miscellaneous stuff) but that's more than TOTT started out with. From next week, all the old wormy stuff on this page will be deleted (Don't say I didn't warn you).

[sarcasm mode] Well, Dai: thank you very much for flooding my message board, overloading it and making it go WHITE every time someone trys to visit it. [sarcasm mode off] You're gonna pay for this, dog breath! Ahem. Anyway: anti-Dai measures. I have opened two new community rooms on TOTT Community. The first is temporary replacement for the main board until Cybertack fix it. The second is the long-awaited DAI EXPERIENCE (I'll work on Fong). Here you can be as evil to Dai as you want and I won't worry about it. Go on... you know you want to...

In addition, I have deleted the link to Dai's site on my Links Page. Go on - check if you want. See the MW link while you're there...

18th DECEMBER - 24th DECEMBER

HA HA - UNITED LOST! HA HA - UNITED LOST! HA HA - UNITED LOST! HA HA - UNITED LOST!... Anyway, heartiest congrats to Liverpool for beating United at home...

To business, anyway: Cybertack think it may not be Dai's flooding that caused the prob after all. They said their server was a bit dicky... still, they've changed servers now so I am now pleased to announce TOTT Board! Go on... visit it...

I've also (as I said I would last week) deleted all the Wormy stuff on this site. No point in having double copies of things, is there? Anyway: please visit Mission: WORMPOSSIBLE! I should be getting a counter for it soon...

Hmm... I've gone four paragraphs before even mentioning what the counter's up to. Is this a new record? Well, it's nearly up to 2900, so not far at all to go now... my, how the past 1000 hits have flown... just over two months... 1000 to 2000 took around four months, while 0 to 1000 took over a year! (This is further back than TOTT News' records go. The furthest back they go is when I passed 100 hits near the end of '99 - amazing how much has happened in one year, innit?)

I may not be able to update next week... grandparents coming down for Christmas... which is annoying, because I should pass 3000 next week at current rates. Still... I may get it done.

25th DECEMBER - 31st DECEMBER

'Bye 2930. Oh, well - looks like I won't make 3000 before the end of 2000. But enough downbeatness - Merry Christmas, one and all - looks like I have managed to get this week's stuff up (albeit near the end of the week). My main present was a PSOne, and I also got three games for it (Hogs of War, Railroad Tycoon II and PGA European Tour Golf) - so expect many more Playstation Tips and Cheats very soon...

I also got "Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours" and have been learning my trade all week. Which means that PROJECT JAVASCRIPT HAS ARRIVED! Well, that was good timing - just in time for the new year.