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Roger Gann, the self-styled ‘nice man of IT’, was in Berlin last week. This morning he sent me a picture.

Today was a day of meetings. The first, over in west London, was particularly enjoyable as Rachel, who now edits MacFormat, but with whom I used to work when I first joined PCW, was also there. We had a good session of catching up on what had happened in the two years since we last saw each other, then walked back into the west end together, which gave us plenty of time to talk again.

We met again this evening at Macromedia’s party in the Imagination building and continued chatting as though we had never been apart.

It’s made me think about the five years I’ve spent at PCW, and the people I have worked with. On the whole, I think I have been very lucky. There isn’t a single person I wouldn’t like to meet again, and I guess not a lot of people can say that about their jobs - especially not someone who works in an industry where people chop and change so often.

In the five years I’ve been there, I have worked for five different editors. The longest served for two years, the shortest only three months. The average length of time someone stays on a magazine - any magazine - is apparently somewhere around a year and a half, so I reckon if I counted them up I’ve probably worked with forty or so people since I started.

Only one person, Clive, has been on the magazine the whole time I have, and there is only one person whose name I can’t remember. I think he was called Cliff, though. I’ll have to look back through the old issues to check it, but he wasn’t there for long, so I feel confidently vindicated.

Anyhow, we filled each other in on what we knew about the people we were still in touch with, and when it was time for Rachel to leave we promised each other we would make more of an effort to keep in touch. There is no excuse, after all, now that the whole world seems to run on email.

She asked me to travel down to Bath for her birthday party in the summer, and I said I would. It will be good to see her and Adam again, especially out of London.

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