Well, I've been in Ely the last three days, without internet access, but I survived. Ely is possibly the dullest city in th UK, it seems to only consist of the cathedral and an enormous public school, as well as a few nice pubs. (For non-UK residents, in the UK a "public school" is what would be called a "private school" elsewhere, what others would call a "public school" we call a "state school". Don't ask me why, we're a quirky lot us Brits.)

So, anyway, I came back to about 750 emails, and that's just at home, I dread to think what my Inbox at work is going to look like Monday morning. Going to be rebuilding AbiWord 2.1.x packages to be less fussy about the GTK+ version installed, and to include the AbiCommand plugin (which I can't believe it doesn't - whoops). Seems someone in Novell wants to base something or other on my 2.1.x packages (such details as there are are in the AbiWord development list archives), and it needs the AbiCommand plugin. Probably will look into doing packages of the SDK as well at some point.

Mono 1.0 was released while I was away, this is great news, an incredible work of hackage by an amazing team of hackers. You guys rock hard, and I'm proud to be associated by even tenuous means with you.

Oh yes, and on Ximian bug #60661, not really the result I was hoping for, will have another punt when the next pre-release version comes out, in the meantime, if anyone knows the gcc flag to not set immediate symbol resolution, please let me know.