House
Made an offer on the house today, and there seems to be a very good possibility that we'll be accepted as well. We should know in the next couple of days what's happening. If everything goes well we'll be moving in about three months time.

Permaculture
The local trainstation had a big impressive permaculture poster up which appears to have been sponsored by the train company. Surprisingly enough it wasn't just "trains are good" propaganda, but made mention of low-impact housing, backyard food systems, and (surprisingly enough) Critical Mass.. It's good to see things like this going up around the city -- sometimes it seems that any poster advocating sustainability lives inside a University campus, or leads a very brief existence before it's plastered over with concert posters.

Work
Friday drinks are finally becoming a little more organised and are running more smoothly. There was a small problem where we miscalculated the horde of brew we were purchasing, and a couple of the pizzas we ordered didn't come through. Depsite this everything seems to have gone well, and we have what I hope to be a sustainable system in place.

I'm expecting to see a few sparks on Monday regarding some mis-communication problems, and I think that we really need a good priority system implemented for tasks, as not everyone sees eye-to-eye about which tasks are the most important.

Finance::Quote
It works. It's beautiful. It's extensible. It should be released. However, I haven't finished the API documentation. I should also check with Jon about when I'm supposed to have my article for TPJ written -- there's nothing like writing an article to speed up the next release of a project.

Melbourne Geeks
Rita, who used to work for Schoolsnet, is now working for Allison, who I was trying to poach to Schoolsnet when Rita first joined. Allison also did software engineering/computer science with Jacinta (who used to work at Schoolsnet) and Elise (who now has my old job at ITS). Sometimes I get a feeling that I'm only one link away from every other geek in Melbourne.