I bet he's impressed with himself, too.

Big cheers for Steve Fossett on a pretty remarkable accomplishment today.

Steve became the first person to fly non-stop, solo, around the world. He accomplished this feat in a custom-built single engine jet designed by that wily designer, Burt Rutan.

Its actually been a pretty interesting technology year, seeing the Ansari X-Prize finally being won, seeing Steve Fossett make his flight, watching the 2 Mars rovers doing their thing beyond anyone's wildest expectations, and getting those first, murky images of from the Huygens probe.

It's nice to see that the human spirit of adventure and desire for challenge still exists.

Me? I'm just a happy child of the space age who's been able to see these things happen since he was a youngster. The glass is pretty full these days.