But my excuses are... I've bought a new computer and been building that.  It's delayed any smartphone work I was doing as I had to reinstall all the environments etc.

More importantly, my new pc has a good graphics card (specifically it's an Athlon 64 3000+ with 1Gb 400Mhz DDR memory, 200Gb Harddrive, ATI Radeon 9600 XT/TVR) so that means I can play games again \o/. 

My new addiction is http://www.eve-online.com it's massively multiplayer, and it's kindof like elite on a huge amount of drugs.  You mine, you trade, you shoot stuff.  It's an interesting balance, it's very much a strategic game rather than an actioner, where you'll right click a target and say lock, choose to keep it at 15km away and shoot it with lasers 1-3.  Rather than steering your ship and pulling the trigger.  But while being strategic, in general it doesn't have the micromanagement that annoys me with a lot of strategic games.  Check it out... it costs about £10/month to play.