Courses at St John's are either validated by Nottingham Uni, or the Open University. The course I'm on (BA (Hons), Ministry) is validated by Nottingham, but at the moment, the Open Uni are doing their inspection of the facilities here. As part of that, a couple of them just paid an inpromptu visit to my room accompanied by my course convener, John Darch.

Of course, this means that they had the extreme pleasure to see ULB GNOME on SuSE 9.1, with Firefox running, and wget grabbing the sources for GNOME 2.8.2 in one terminal window, and GARNOME building GNOME Office in another.

In other news, decided this morning in my Old Testament Prophets seminar that Ezekiel was a geek too. Came out of us reading Ezekiel 4: 1-3, and Doug commenting that it sounded like he was playing Warhammer - it doesn't get much more geeky that that, does it?

My current TODO list looks a little like this:

• BS102 & CTW102 essays.
• GNOME 2.8.2 (and any more recent stable versions of individual modules such as Evolution 2.0.3 - just out) on SuSE 9.1.
• Update hotplug for SuSE 9.1, and then finally get g-v-m etc. built and working.
• Upgrade notebook to SuSE 9.2
• Repeat all GNOME steps on SuSE 9.2