Amidst a barrage of lightning flashes and crashes of thunder, I make may way home through the night with a second - would you believe it? - a second assignment clasped in my hand. My computing prowess (/me sniffs), it seems, is becoming common knowledge amongst my peers, and, not wishing to miss a trick, two have enlisted me as their internet expert of choice. Of choice, I cannot stress enough, for now in these enlightened days a person acquainted with the arcane art of computing and web design is barely more difficult to find than, say, a cricket devotee at Headingley a week ago, and thus a plethora of such people would surely have been at both of my friends' disposals.

Of course, all this is nonsense, and I barely know more about web design than perhaps the average cricket devotee at Headingley last week; but with my general knowledge of computers and seeming fluency with things pertaining to, I think my friends have developed enough trust in me to manage designing and creating a website, one website each.

The first is no secret, and has been mentioned before: the website of the Ukrainian band in which I play, Yarema. It has been entrusted to me by our drummer Andy, and I'm currently in the process of learning how to use CSS, in an effort to create a tableless web layout. A blog (possibly courtesy of the beautifully open-source WordPress) will be implemented for our news, as well as maybe a forum (perhaps phpBB) as a place for our 'fans' to come and discuss their favourite tracks, band member, and all that kind of stuff. 'Twill also have pages of biographical information for each of us, and information on gigs we've played, with possibly pages dedicated to each venue (although this hasn't yet been discuss - as hasn't the forum, I don't think).

The second website, as commissioned by my old friend Marc, is something more of a secret. It is an original-ish idea, the success of which may suffer if any/too many details are released about it, thus I must leave you to be contented with the scant knowledge that it is to be 'a website'. In fact, it wouldn't harm too much to say that it'll be 'a website dedicated to sport'. It'll also be a more complicated website than Yarema's, because I'll need to learn how to use databases (most probably either MySQL or PostgreSQL, although I won't discount Oracle, because I have a relative who has lines of code in Oracle's source, and his knowledge could be very helpful); yes, I'll need to learn how to use databases to make the site functional.

Who would have thought it? A person of my humble beginnings being elevated to the lofty status of Webmaster!