Tom's Hardware's Athlon article wouldn't have been possible without the toughest work of Brent Kerby and Silvino Orozco, who both spend pretty much the entire weekend in our US-lab. Those guys are not living alone, so that my thanks include Stacey, Brent's spouse, Devon, his daughter and Lani, Sil's girl friend. It's all my fault that your spouses or daddy couldn't spend time with you on the weekend, please forgive me! Kate has of course to included into the list also, since she did hardly see anything of me in the last 5 days, and even now she's alone outside in the sun while I'm typing this Monday Blurb.

The credit section is not finished yet. I have to dearly thank Andreas Stiller, the CPU-god from c't-Magazine for his guidance, friendship and enlightenment. Without his very own and most excellent Athlon-article, published last Monday, I would have missed the necessary inspiration required for writing a meaningful technology-article about a microprocessor. I look forward to Andreas visiting me on Wednesday down here in the Black Forest, so that he and his family can enjoy the total eclipse of the sun with Kate and me.

I also received a lot of help from AMD as well as Intel, to make the comparison between Pentium III and Athlon as accurate as possible. Thanks to all those folks, and you helpful people from Intel, please don't despise me for showing that AMD is currently supplying the better product.

OK, before this blurb is getting too pathetic I rather draw the finishing line. This only leaves me to thank all the hundreds of scuba divers that send me tons of lovely mails . I'll make my promise come true and you'll hear stuff about scuba diving from Jason Washington, John Lawless and Scott Child, Kate Egan and Thomas Pabst very soon. It will probably not be on Tom's Hardware Guide, but I'll make sure you'll find out where.