He recalled enjoying "many happy hours just hangin' aboot, smokin', drinkin', talkin' nonsense and listening to Jimmy waxing lyrical and being profound".
They even managed to fit in cover of Everybody's Talkin', though Skelly pointed out that it was a tribute to the song's writer Fred Neil than any of the artists who have since covered it.
Microsoft wants to chill everyone out with the somber news that its got no plans to introduce Windows 7 any earlier than January 2010 (three years from the launch of Vista), and reassure us that crazy old Gates may have just been talkin' developer speak.