Sad to say, Akbar and Jeff are suspending operations for a while. I have a day job (as director of Cornell's Legal Information Institute, which provides the systems and support for OLDTOOLS, as you may know. At this point it's a very absorbing job. We're heavily involved in the effort to put law and legal information into the hands of the public -- as we have been for nearly two decades -- and this is a time when there are a lot of opportunities to do some good both in the US and abroad by making law more available to citizens and (especially) entrepreneurs. My shop is doing work all over the world as well as with the USGPO here in the US.
That doesn't leave nearly enough time for tools, and I'd rather put the business into hibernation than serve my very loyal customers poorly. It'll be back when there's time to do it right -- I still have a large stock of rusty junk of all kinds. The only real alternative to reopening the business would be a Viking funeral, and with obvious exceptions tools don't burn all that well. So you'll see Akbar and Jeff again, probably sooner than you think. Or than anybody wants. They are pesky little devils.
Thanks, everybody -- it's been a great time and it will be again.
PS: Rumors that I've been mugged by Martin J. Donnelly and shoved in a shipping container covered in "Bush-Cheney '04" stickers should be treated as the baseless canards that they undoubtedly are.