"At home sick with #b3770099 coloured bile."

alpha channel.. thats awesome! that's total design meets code geekiness. hex me baby.

Robyn, i'm surprised you didnt remember #cccccc and then #eeeeee the lightest legal grey you could have back then for subtle designy type design stuff whilst busy making pages under 50Kb.

It's pretty much expected that people won't remember your name on first intro, but occasionally you meet someone who practices some sort of name recall technique and continues to repeat your name back to you at the end of all their sentences. I find that quite unnatural.