DVDs
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I noticed that Dancer is lamenting the region restrictions on DVD players. I've heard a rumour that the players in New Zealand do not come with region restrictions as the NZ government classifies such stupidities as a trade restriction, anti-competitive, or something else it believes is illegal. Yay NZ if this is true. Anyone care to confirm/deny the rumour?
Work
Pain. Deep pain. Working on a bug in some archaic code
that seems to have been invented before anyone heard of
encapsulation or local variables. It hurts.
Finance::Quote and GnuCash
Will be looking at tinkering GnuCash to use the new release
of Finance::Quote. This should make people very happy.
I'm also thinking of writing a C interface to the library (yes, you can do this with perl).
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