Carlos (who incidentally, I keep typing Carols - tis not the season anymore, James...) reminded me about being able to dump output from the perl backends. I'd mucked up slightly, thanks C, now I can work in a bit more focused way.

Met up with Amanda and one of her colleagues after work last night for a couple of drinks. I don't know what she must have thought. She's a civil servant, works for the Employment Tribunal Service, and there's me - hair half-way down my back, unshaven around my messy goatee, wearing a really old Red Hat (it's so old, I had it before I started at SuSE) tshirt.

Finally have my wedding ring back on. I damaged it several months ago when it caught on a door handle. I eventually got around to taking it in to a jewellers two weeks ago, and got it back today. The shape's slightly different to before, it's flatter and wider (I guess because they have to soften it to be able to repair it), and it feels kind of weird having it on again. At least there's no danger of people mistaking me for a singleton now.