Diplomacy
Wow, I received seven expressions of interest within minutes of me posting around the staff list asking for Diplomacy players. Now I just need to find an external person to be arbitrator for the electronic judge.

Finance::Quote
Version 0.18 is almost out the door. I'd like to release it this weekend.

Work
Holidays are over, so I'm back at work. I'd rather the holidays had continued, but I guess we can't have everything.

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Sleep
I remember being a young child and my bedtime rolling around every night and me having to go to sleep otherwise I won't wake up for school. Now I'm an *ahem* older child, and I still have to go to bed at 10:30 every night else I won't wake up for work. However right now I'm on holidays, and like a kid with the parents away, I don't really want to go to sleep. I want to stay up and hack code and play loud music and mud.

Rockclimbing
Didn't go rock-climbing today. Benni was in Bendigo looking at guitar porn with his girlfriend.

If the reports from Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) are actually real and reproducable, then this is all pretty amazing stuff. Humans with psionic powers (natural or engineered) is the sort of stuff I remember reading in old SciFi and Fantasy novels during high-school.

I don't think that the youth of today truly understand how important it is to become friends with your editor. I still see people who want to do their work in pico.

I suppose I had an easy transition to vi. Whereas other students were used to point-and-drool editors, I'd spent many years on local BBSs using line editors, and my favourite game at the time was Hack, which used vi keys for movement. All that made the move to vi quite natural.

Writing code on Advogato
To answer alisdair's question about displaying code on Advogato, I'd personally make use of the <pre> tags, like this:

<PRE>

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use lib '../lib';
use Finance::Quote;
use Data::Dumper;