Gosh, what a week. I've written an essay, about six weeks ahead of it's due date (!), been to my cell group in Watford, had Caz and Cat round for dinner, survived a killer cold and kicked (I hope) my new mortgage lender into submission^*. I've also met up with Hils and Caz for coffee, and got some packages built.

Of course, the best, and most important thing is that I've spent a fairly normal week with Amanda, which has just been bliss. Had fondue tonight - yum!

Back to Nottingham tomorrow, and college life begins again.

Roger notes that Novell's plan is not to liberate SuSE Pro to the community. That's sad, but I can understand their perspective. But know, Novell insiders, that if you ever do, you have a GNOME maintainer ready and waiting.

2.9.1 is due on Monday. Yes, I'm excited, but do I start building that, or stick with 2.8.x? The agony of choice...

America goes to the polls on Tuesday, and it's too close to call. I've been monitoring Electoral-Vote.com, and it's simply too close to call. Thankfully, Florida, with it's important 27 electoral college votes seems to be edging towards Kerry, and the 37 (combined) votes of Ohio and Michigan while currently being called for Bush are essentially a statistical tie (they're well well well within the margin), so this is really all to play for. Yes, I know Florida's well within the margin too, but it's trend has been towards Kerry over time. I also don't buy the latest polling data from Michigan, it suggests a sudden and dramatic collapse in the Kerry vote there, and that doesn't seem likely. All of a sudden, New Jersey looks key, until you consider that the latest poll there calling it not just as a statistical tie, but a very actual tie also suggests a sudden collapse in the Kerry vote. It's also worth considering that the latest poll in NJ is from Strategic Vision, not known for being very left-friendly.

Let's just say I feel confident about Kerry's chances Tuesday.