Still, mustn't grumble, eh? I mean, it's not as if he's a bad designer, when you can get him to do any work. But I'm not going to spend the entire time going on about Darrell, it wouldn't be fair or, to allow a little reality to creep on to the page, interesting either. No, there's no point in complaining about that when I've got so much else to complain about. Like for example the fact that we've been caught out again by the time scale of putting this version of the Room on the CD-Rom. So, Darrell's done this really great Ashes cycling 'Rod' and by the time you get to see it, the Ashes'll be over. Ah well, I hope we won.

But what of the Room? What new delights are there for you to peruse? Well, there's the usual weekly slagfest in Media slag, and the missing episode eight of the Stoney Blokes has finally surfaced, to the enormous disappointment of anyone who's ever checked out any of the other episodes. There are also a couple of new features for your reading pleasure: one on the BBC's plans for the web, which sound pretty damned serious to me, and the other about this bloke Don Peppers, who reckons that the next step for the web is total personalisation.

There are some new jokes in funny stuff about things as diverse as diseases and knickers, which I trust you will find as tasteful and mature as I do. And remember, I want your jokes to help make the funny stuff section the most sickening, tasteless and plain nasty place on the entire web. Keep it up!

Ben (bene@vnu.co.uk)