I actually emailed him while I was at Uni asking for a job at The Digital Village and had a brief exchange of a few back and forth. He was one of the best.
I got a wonderfully apt message in my browser that the mp4 file of this from google video will take 11 hours and 45 minutes to download. Ah, yes I remember dial-up too and really waiting over 12 hours for things to download, knowing that it just took one crash of IE or Windows as a whole to end it all in misery and have to start again.
(, Mon 24 Nov 2008, 22:51, Reply)