Retirement: Where's the engraved watch?

If all good things come to an end, then the time is at hand for our Design blog. but retirement is a surprisingly robust condition in the blogosphere, and this blog will remain in place for reference and searching. Many thanks to Jan Kabili and Darren Chan for their contributions here. both are remaining in the Weblogs, Inc. network, so look for their names in our other blogs. (Jan is already writing for TUAW