After a bit of hacking, I managed to clobber out a very rough (but working) currency converter for Finance::Quote. It's going to be changed to make it nicer, but I managed to write a trivial application which can convert between two currencies on the command-line.

Did lots of tidy-up work on Finance::Quote. Added testing scripts and fixed the documentation and made a few code optimisations. I'll probably release a new version shortly, with currency-conversion support due for the version after that.

The joy of coding has kept me up past midnight. I must be getting to sleep.

Now that I've fixed a problem (with Dancer's help) on this particular product, I've now been forwarded the other bugs with it. I don't want the other bugs. I don't know the code. I have other bugs outstanding in my main line of work. I've even gained a new nickname based upon a typo of the product's name -- I'm now being called 'Lover Boy'.

People with competing bugs are trying to get me off the project. I hope they succeed.

Finance::Quote
Cooper Vertz submitted a patch to extend the Yahoo! quote facilities somewhat. Patches always make me happy, and I've integrated Cooper's change into the CVS source.

Ben's also been bugging me to spiff-up one of my example programs so he can easily see how his share portfolio is going. It was an easy request that I made while waiting for the world's slowest toaster, one of the quality pieces of kitchen equipment we have here at work.

Rockclimbing
Went rockclimbing today with Ian, Ben and Daniel. It's good to be well enough to go climbing again, as I haven't been for some time. I climbed a few new walls until my tummy started hurting whenever I used upper-body strength. I hope this isn't the first sign of a herina (spel?).

Sofie (Ian's SO) has had her operation and is now allowed to drink alochol again. She's planning on getting pished next week. It should be fun. She has a little jar of what the doctors pulled from her when she was under the knife. The results look like little green teeth. I'm sure this will be a great conversation piece for her in the years to come.

We had mexican afterwards (the traditional food of rockclimbers everywhere), and I brought some back for Jacinta, who's caught my cold. She seems a lot better now, although I worry that she's read too many Larry Wall quotes for her own good.

Work
None, because it's been a weekend. However, my work account does get my e-mail, and I don't seem to have been getting many recently in my mailbox. I have been getting errors from fetchmail about POP3 failing. I'm not happy. My outgoing e-mail seems to be fine.

Finance::Quote/GnuCash
Brent's patch for Finance::Quote has found it's way into GnuCash. I should probably e-mail him and let him know.

Mojotoad has also released a perl module to fetch historical quotes and looks like he's thinking of adding it to GnuCash. This is a Good Thing.

Played with PAUSE (Perl Author's Upload Server) a little, although I'm still not used to it yet. I'm sure I'll manuver Finance::Quote onto CPAN soon. :)