The dog itself seems to be quite friendly and nice, albeit probably quite bored. Normally I don't mind barking dogs too much, as I assume they give their owners more grief than they give me. However, when it's my immediate neighbour, I do take exception. I may have to invest in either a chew-toy for the dog, some sound-killing earmuffs for me, or some chocolates for Ian (so he won't mind when I ask to sleep at his house where it's quiet).

Of course, my first line of attack is to have some quiet words with our neighbour -- if I can stay awake that long.

The Perl Journal
Wrote much of my draft last night, in preparation for first submission this weekend. Quite pleased. It won't contain how to roll your own F::Q module, as that looks like it will be well beyond the scope of the article.

Work
The restructuring looks like it may be a good thing. Shirley, who's helping to organise things, certainly seems to be more than willing to listen to people. This is a good thing.

I'm going to have to call a bunch of places looking into having the Schoolsnet Xmas party on a boat, train, or other vehicle. I suspect I'm going to have to shift my spot on the party committee to another Dev team member -- I want my coding time, damnit. :)

Nope. I get a message that the SVGA card isn't responding or is not there, and the game halts. This sucks. So close yet so far.

If vmware can get both X-COM apocalypse and Transport Tycoon Deluxe to run in its virtual machine, I'll be most happy to buy a copy. Alas, this is not currently the case. :(

Games
Dancer and Justin have introduced me to the joys of X-COM Apocolypse. I'm a bit of a closet turn-based tactical/strategy junkie (I loved board games like Diplomacy and Space-Hulk), and X-COM III has really tickled my fancy.

Work
Dan's been making me very happy by encouraging me to bullet-proof and harden some of our older and more critical software. Good Dan. :)

There's also been a bit of a restructure in the dev team. I'm interested to see how it turns out.

Blooper of the Week
It would appear that our phone system depends upon our DNS functioning correctly. Broken DNS = Broken phones. Utterly weird.

Finance::Quote
Volker Stuerzl has been kind enough to write and contribute a Deutsche Bank Gruppe module for Finance::Quote. We can expect it to be released with version 1.02.

Unfortunately the ASX have re-butchered their site, and so the ASX module is broken. This sucks because the 1.01 test suite takes FOREVER to run, because it results in timeouts rather than unreachable host/refused connection. Guess I'll have to rewrite the ASX module properly so that it batches requests.

I intend to roll F::Q 1.01 into GnuCash this weekend. Promise.