Where fore art thou Michael D. Cameron?

Rhys Parry (of The Mill fame) has been rather extensivly investiagting the Michael D. Cameron mystery.

I am quite grateful for his efforts, but is he perhaps doing a little *too* much? Does he have some inside knowledge? Is he Michael D. Cameron?

His analysis of the poem is good, especially the “Ace” part which I didn’t pick up on (and thought was probably the weaker part of the poem, poetically wise). Was it a little *too* good though, or is that just part of his job.

A Credit Card would not necessarily have been needed if Interflora was used (I guess), though the more likely option is that the web site was used. Which is an interesting clue. Certainly I agree that Paul could get his hands on one if he needed, Dave might even have been happy to risk his number for such a prank.

Admitidly, Rhys was not high on my suspect list though I have always wondered if the time would come when he would serve up his revenge with a killer prank of his own.

The thing is that there is actually rather few suspects on my list. Until now, I have not actually announced on the Internet that I was employed by Bullant Studios, and the prankster no doubt knew this. Only Alison, my close friends, family and work mates (obviously) were in the loop. My work mates didn’t really know I liked Java (until then). Alision I think I can rule out (admitidly I did think it was her at first, but she would have signed her own name if she did it which she assures me she never would). Most of my family I can also rule out. Being that only my close friends and family knew, it has to have been a prank. Now if I take the set of people who knew and union it with the set of people who enjoy the occasional prank, and I am left with:

• Paul
• Dave
• Rhys

Michael D. Cameraon has just joined IRC and it is looking suspiciously like Rhys:
Cameron [rhys@CPE-60-226-46-185.qld.bigpond.net.au]: Michael D. Cameron

Dave has also joined but he doesn’t know if he is “Dave”, “Rhys”, or “D_”.:
Whois : D_ [Rhys@60-240-251-69.tpgi.com.au]: Dave
(if it is Dave trying to be sneaky then he’s not being all that sneaky since he did login to ICQ and IRC simultaneously)

Paul swears his innocence though constantly voices his thought that there must be some clue in the name and while he has a point, one has to wonder: how is he so sure?

Rhys mentioned: “This was a well thought out prank and the pranksters will be revealed. If not today, then surely some other day.” I wonder if today is that day?

Here is a photo of the Vase by the way, it’s pretty chunky – I wonder if it was the bigger one?

Will.