Last night I went to the Tokyo Bloggers social gathering organised by Nadine Zukoski and Mike Clarke. It was very encouraging to see such an active community in Tokyo with a keen interest in personal web publishing, although it's definitely still a 'boy's club' in this city. I was particularly glad to meet Kurt Easterwood, Jeremy Hedley and James Luckett, whose blogs I've been enjoying for most of the past year.

Some were supportive and understanding of my "stealth-blogging" position of not wanting to go public with this blog just yet (read: feel free *not* to link to me if you find anything on here you like), since there's still a long way to go before this site is ready to be officially launched, while others were pressing me to stop standing in the shadows and start promoting my site. I think I'll stick with my undercover status for the next few months while things are developing behind the scenes. First things first: get rid of this damn ugly generic MT template...

[Update: 2 March 2003: HunkaMike managed to snap me and Kristen, my former DE-J co-conspirator, during the course of the evening.]

Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming!