First time here? If so, first thing you need to know is that a Reality Update is something like a monthly status report to MISSION CONTROL and second thing is that I am real glad that you have found you way through the maze to these words.

If this is your first time here then you may feel a bit gypped, I mean the web cam ain't turned on, indeed, I wouldn't blame you for feeling somewhat pissed off.

Thing is,

there's not much I can do about it - Besides tell it like it is.

The web cam is broken, or to be more precise, the third web cam is broken, which means that I need to source a new parallel port web cam from some where.

Thing is,

parallel port web cams are obsolete and hard to find.

Thing is,

That I don't have the $ needed to buy a web cam - Shit, I don't got the $ to replace the inverter that just blew up either.

Thing is,

that on the 5th of January, the N.S.W Police arrested me for cultivation of the 61 Cannabis Plants that were to have been the focus of the 2001 webshow.

Thing is,

that cultivating 61 plants is considered a resonably serious crime in N.S.W and cultivating 61 plants carries a reasonably serious amount of jail time.

All is not lost.

little qwerty is still working and the chat room will be open quite a bit whilst I (we) prepare for the Court Case on the 5th February.

Natcherally, every single phase of the upcoming procedings will be documented and displayed 'someweb' or other, and if I can get permission, I will be  introducing this web site - and all the pages linked to it and audience linked to it- as evidence in court, I'm also hoping to get permission to upload a live webcast of the court  proceedings as well.

Oh, one last thing before I head back to the chat room, the upcoming reality court case should not be confused with the fictional cyber court case story that I wrote in 1998.

Till next.

Peace.

;O)--~

P.S. the sound you "might be hearing" is a snippet from The Man in the Dark Sedan by Snakefinger and the Residents.

P.S.2  the Y2Kampaign was a wwwonderful year of unarrested cannabis activism, (Click here, here, here, here + here, as wwwell as here, here, here and here,)