I went to a small school back in Sydney. No, not for people of less than average stature (and I still maintain 5"7' is right on average, damnit). My entire graduating year had about 30 kids in it. I say about because there were one whom I was never sure was enrolled or not, but he seemed to turn up a lot. And I say kids because surely we were. The day we all left school for good was a happy day because spending 6 years of your life with the same 30 kids going through the usual adolescent dramas ends up being a mixed bag.

So it pleases me no end to have recently revived contact with one of my closest buddies from those days. He's now living outside of San Fran (for a small class we've sure dispersed) and he even has his own blog on Business Continuity, if you like that kind of thing. In the words of the anti-semitic mouse drawer: it's a small world after all.

G'day Kolya.