Advogato
My first day on Advogato. After watching Dancer reveal his innermost secrets into Advogato many times, I finally visited to see what was going on. Looks like a very useful resource, I plan to come back here often.

There are a few caching issues, though. I had a great time trying to log in until I realised I kept getting cached copies of pages. Likewise I've been tempted a few times to type into my cached copy of Dancer's diary editor. :)

GnuCash/Quote.pm
Last night I grabbed the CVS sources of GnuCash, looking for a better way of keeping track of my finances. In a fit of hacking I added support for stock quotes from the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), and posted patches back to SourceForge

Unfortuately, SourceForge ate my patch -- or more correctly, ate all the backslashses in my patch. I don't seem to be the only only afflicted by this problem, a few of the other patch-files I looked at seemed to have a large number of strings ending with "...n". If any readers would like a copy of the (un-munged) patches, please let me know.

Contacted the other authors of the Quote.pm module regarding a release to CPAN. I would have loved a module like this about a month ago when I was toying with stock-monitoring software.

Work
I've had a surprisingly good day at work today. Nobody's come to me with bugs, the projects I've been working on have been ticking along smoothly, and I've had lots of time to hack uninterrupted. I've even started taking old jobs out of the job queue and finishing them(!). Dancer's threatened to kill me if I get any happier, and I still can't believe how the coffee here just keeps getting better.

Today is Margo's last day, which is sad, although she will be coming back for a bit next week. I wish her all the very best in her new job. It was great having her around.