Well, on the GST front anyway. I did open backends/users-conf.in in vim, but that was all, didn't actually add or remove a single character of code. Built new Garnome and gave it a whirl, alas, until Evolution is in a situation where I can actually use 1.5.x (ie, where it doesn't just lock up whenever I try to look at my Calendar) I can't reasonably use/test it. (Evo 1.4 won't start with the 1.5 versions of ORBit etc loaded first). Still like the look of 1.5 though.

Sent a birthday card to my mother today too (hi mum, I know you read my blog, even if you don't get most of it )

Seems the license issue isn't the big thing with HA on Astaro, it is actually a bug, but the spaces in the encryption key appears to be a genuine thing.

Gonna knock up a script to install all Michael's support packages for OOo from the Red carpet channel, without actually having to install RC itself (been burned once, not going there again). Will do it on my home machine I expect, and then use ooo-build to build packages. No reason not to then link to the Ximian packages on ULB, then I can get down to some serious testing with it.