I can't take credit for remembering, however today is kind of Solaris 2.0's sixteenth birthday, well at least its the 17th anniversary of Sun announcing 'the first shrink-wrapped distributed computing solution' aka Solaris. Actually I think Solaris 2.0 (along the same lines as the Star Wars films, 2.0 was first, and 1.0 was a follow-up!) was released until June 1992, but any excuse to celebrate!

I just hope you don't end up with Neil Sedaka's 1961 hit, Sweet Sixteen stuck in your head for the rest of the day, as I did last week when I heard the news. For that I can only blame former Radio One DJ Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart.

Roll on next year and I'll start quoting Beatles lyrics...

If you're wondering where I've got to, I'm still around just busy over here collecting and counting up the sponsorship money from our sponsored 100km hike we did earlier in the summer.

At the moment we're totalling somewhere just over our original target of £4000 (with the help of Sun Microsystems Foundation's Matched Giving scheme).

All our money is due with Oxfam by end of September, so if you owe us (or want to make a last minute donation) get in touch