Having felt confident enough in the coding of Hatogate now to present it as a sort of weird tribute/sacrifice, I sent a Twitter message to Moa herself yesterday - and she was nice enough to broadcast it on her feed (where the audience seem baffled that it's in English - now you know how we felt with Holidaystar!) With that, giving something back to the architect of all this lunacy, it feels somehow like a loop has been closed, that some circle of madness has now reached its conclusion (although I've been wrong about this several times before).

Someone asked me about the reappearance of my beard at work today. Thanks to this game, all I could think of to say was "It's my winter plumage".