Hi all. I just love making people happy. Basically it's nice to see a person smile every now and then. But surprising them with a small, unexpected gift is the best thing. Today was Marcus' turn on the receiving end ;-) He was having his final working day at Philips and even though we already said good-bye to him last Friday I knew it wasn't going to be long before I saw him again. Fortunes-R-Biek ... Ever since I've known Marcus he has been quite enthusiastic about Ferrari's (or Fewwawi as he call's them ;-) and whenever the topic came up we could expect a wide smile and a loud 'Fewwaweeh!' from his side of the room. Now that he was going to leave us I thought it would be a nice idea to make him a little present regarding those red automobiles. So for just over three weeks I had been working on making him a DvD which should have contained a compilation of a great number of small video files we had been downloading over the past year. This process however was not going according to plan at all. Every time I thought I was finished the whole thing crashed when I was just about to burn it. Nero was so friendly to give me about 5 pages of error code so the problem was found quite easily ... NOT! In the end it turned out the whole process crashed on the slideshow I put in the beginning and when I removed it and replaced it with a couple of more movies the thing worked like a charm. Meanwhile I had been downloading a complete documentary called 'fifty years of Ferrari' which was one DvD by itself and I also wanted to include all the hi resolution pictures and all smaller movies I had been collecting over time. So the final 'product' contained three DvD's packed together nicely in a (somewhat too small) box with a custom made Fewwawi cover. When I showed up at work a couple of hours ago and after a little speech handed the DvD over to him he asked us if we were maybe expecting him to feel embarrassed or something like that. We told him 'no' but also that we wouldn't mind if he cried for a little while *grin* The expression on his face alone was worth all the effort and I believe he liked it a lot. Let's hope we hear from him in a while and get that confirmed. Now I'm going to do some more work on my mom's PC again which is coming along nicely and maybe will be finished by tomorrow. She can then begin using it and explore the digital PC world all over again and truly enjoy all the nice things internet has to offer. The basics are all ready and all that's left is some fine tuning and installing the usual small programs. After that it's a matter of copying her data to this machine and off she goes! Right, I'm off installing. Catch you later.