We're moving office over the weekend, so our web server and your access to this site will be offline for a little of that. Sorry for the interruption. Normal transmission will be resumed as soon as possible.

For those updating their address books, we'll be moving a couple of blocks across Auckland's CBD to our considerably swisher new home in the DDB Needham building at level 1, 80 Greys Ave. All our other contact details will remain the same.

While sorting a decade's worth of back issues in preparation for our move, I came across this gem. It's Sam Morgan being interviewd for a Dec 1999 PC World feature called 'Taking care of eBusiness', written just 8 months after the fledging TradeMe first squeaked into life on an NT server. If you can't read the pull-out quote, Sammy's saying "Today, there's basically no money coming in." Some things are worth sticking at.

Actually, just quietly, I have to say most I chose to profile for that feature have gone on to success. Simon Barton's Gamezone has morphed into the highly successful GamePlanet, Woolworths.co.nz is still delivering, unlike many overseas counterparts founded at the same time, and Westie Ian Miller's tuff-as-nuts-com is still plying PDA cases in search engine savvy fashion. The only e-commerce strike out was Stefan Preston with FlyingPig.co.nz ("a key investor is Eric Watson"), though these days he's he seems to be doing OK for himself in the bricks and mortar world as Bendon CEO (yes, they have a website too. I got someone to check).