Hi!
It was five years ago this December that the server blew up. I think that was the last straw for the good folks at Pentax. It was during that month that they began casting about for someone to take over. After they called me and asked what I thought about it and who would be a good choice, someone there said, "hey, why don't =you= do it?"
Fascinating... Then my joining in 2001 (IIRC) was not too long after Pentax let PDML be...
Happy anniversary, everyone... Boris (a.k.a. Jar Jar a.k.a. The Youngster)