Had a good night last night, Caz round for dinner, pork & leek sausages with mash and onion gravy, with some very nice red wine. Also last night found out I have a provisional (but probable I guess) date for Selection Conference, the 28th - 31st June, which I've just requested time off work for. I have to be honest that my first reaction was horror that it's so far away. Five months of people asking me if I'd been yet, five months of waiting, five months of worrying about it. But now, I guess it's probably good, five months to prepare, five months to sort out a college place (hopefully), five months to pray. It will mean that if I get through, the summer will be rather busy, but I'm used to busy summers. I just need to trust God that what's in His will will come out, one way or the other. Speaking of college places, I've also found out that the dates I'd requested for my interview at Ridley Hall are already full, so I'll be going sometime after Easter, which will wtill be plenty of time ahead of conference.

Finally managed to rebuild Mozilla 1.6 with a typo-free spec file, so those packages are up on ULB, along with Gnumeric 1.2.5, which was released last night. That's meant that looking at GST has been delayed yet again, still, there's always next week.

The Planetarium continues to grow, Planeta Hispalinux, for the main Spanish LUG has been launched, and I'll be adding it to p.SuSE's Planetarium for the next build. I need to look at the new Planet code at some point, and convert p.SuSE to it. I also need to move it off my NFS filesystem, onto a regular filesystem, cos it keeps getting corrupted. More to the point, I need to figure out why that happens on this filesystem. I used to think it was ReiserFS's fault, but it's ext3 now, and it still happens. it;s not even as if the planet code is ever accessed on any of the machines that access the filesystem, only ever on the host server. Hmmmm...

Out for a Soul Man Ruby Night tonight, I'm seriously (well, ok, not seriously, jokingly is more like the truth) considering getting a phaal...
Ohhh, baby....