Thanks gb; your blog is always an interesting read.
Started work again (only a 6 month break this time...) to make things more interesting for me, I'm going to make a brief demo with a restricted play area and only a couple of goals to achieve. Just to prove the concept for myself and to give me an objective amongst all the ongoing, long-term, mapping slog.
Oh and I've added another page to my blog's menu, to give brief updates:
http://earthquakemod.wordpress.com/latest-notes/ Its useful, as I can't always be arsed to either write longer updates or update my website.
Oh, and I've transfered the back story over to the blog