GnuCash
The latest news is that commercial interests have decided that GnuCash is a good thing, and that some of the lead developers will be getting paid to add new features. I think this is wonderful news -- other people will be paying to improve a package that I now use on a daily basis.

Finance::Quote and SourceForge
There seem to be a few hiccups with SourceForge and Brent's CVS access. I hope these will get sorted out quickly, as I'm eager to get a new release out soon, and I'd like Brent's changes to be included.

Finance::Quote
Had a slew of mail regarding Finance::Quote recently, including another potential developer. Brent has joined the project at SourceForge and looks like he'll stick with us for a while. Our second developer is interested in doing an OO-rewrite (which I'd also like to see), although he has a few hesitations. Hopefully he'll like us enough to join

Money transfers
Had a very long and problematic time getting my money transfer. Every overseas traveller this side of Adelaide seemed to be at the Western Union office, and I had to wait a considerable time in the queue. When I finally got served I had to prove who I was. I don't drive, I don't have a passport, and they didn't seem interested in any other form of ID. After much searching I found my old expired learner's permit which they accepted.

In the future I might accept payment in other forms, like Perl Journal subscriptions or books.

Holidays!
Holidays! Holidays! Hooray! Hooray! I have no work until Thursday. A whole week off. Yay!

Skirmish
Benni and Dan have organised a Skirmish (paint-ball) game next week. Everyone I've spoken to who's played it before has said that it's the best fun you'll ever have, and you'll get more bruises than you've ever had too. It should be interesting.

Rockclimbing
Went with Ian, Benni and Dan (not Dan from work) to The Mill. The people were very nice, some of the walls were fun, but I'll admit that Hardrock remains my favourite. Still, The Mill is an easy bike-ride from where I live (as is VicRanges), whereas Hardrock is yonks away.

In what appears to be a common occurance, I met up with some old people I knew while Rockclimbing and got talking. One of them happened to do a study of one of Schoolsnet's products as part of his thesis, and has promised to pass his research on to me. I look forward to reading it.

Work
It was a weekend, but nobody seems to have told Scotty that. I received two phone-calls from Scott about some data conversion scripts I had written.

Finance::Quote
The ASX seems to have broken their on-line share prices, which explains why some of my regression tests were failing. I've been doing a lot of thinking about the module, but not a lot of coding. The code needs more ways to signal that something has gone wrong, and what that wrongness is.

Played a little with Perl/Tk, but not seriously. I'd like to have a nice stock-ticker, but I don't want to write it myself. The tickers which I've played with didn't support Australian stocks very well.

Work
Just call me bug-boy. If it's a bug, then give it to me. I don't have enough of them already. If it's a hard-to-reproduce bug, then that's even better.

In seriousness it looks like Dancer and myself have a hold on bug #2. This is a very good thing. Clemo has offered to name his firstborn children after us.

Dan and Tiff are leaving today to get married. I wish them all the very best. I'm glad they're getting a break from work at last.

Rock-climbing
Clemo, Ian and Sam went rockclimbing with me last night. Lots of fun, it's so nice to be back on the walls again. I was very pleased with some the climbs I achieved, and Sam showed himself to be a natural climber starting with some of the walls it took me weeks to work up to.

We should get another Schoolsnet crowd at rockclimbing next week, too. Should be good.

Dinner
Had dinner with an old friend and watched lots of cute anime. Brought back memories of the good ol' days when I was a poor student and couldn't afford a life.

Games
Ian's given me HomeWorld to play. It's a very pretty game, although I've never been good at real-time strategy games. I more prefer the hours of thought and consideration that turn-based games afford. In that vein, I've been thinking of starting a Diplomacy game here at work, depending upon how interested people are.