To echo the words of Luis: Thank goodness Advogato is back. I was seriously considering setting up my own journal but Advogato gives a sense of community, an excuse to write and at least the vague feeling that someone else might be reading. Pybloxsom is sounds tempting (crap name) though.

Fejj, skip to Fast Quick Sort already! ;)

I missed out on this years GUADEC but it makes me more determined to put aside money so that I can go next year. Things seem to have gone well for AbiWord with Mathematics support getting a significant push forward.

To compensate for not being able to be at GUADEC I tried to get some programming done. Had another play with Garnome, it was less hassle than previouse times but I couldn't get enough disk space on the network for what I wanted. Did some poking and prodding of Dia as another release is immenant (will be version 0.94) but although I have some ideas thoroughly worked out, implementation will have to wait until after the release. With so few version numbers left to Dia might actually be declare version 1.0 which with any luck will encourage more developers to join in and take Dia off in some new directions. Finally I am learning some Python. I have started by modifying some of existing Gimp Python scripts and by writing simple python scripts of my own. Although I know enough from other languages to wade in and get started, I definately need to do some proper background reading.

My father has never been one to look a gift horse in the mouth and as a result we had an excessive quantity of bananas in the house, which was an ideal excuse for culinary experimentation. The novelty did not last long so I hastily searched for recipies and decided to make Banana Jam. I had never made jam before least of all banana jam. I had not even considered the possiblity of it existing but you can make jam out of just about any fruit. Even by the standards of my sweet-tooth this stuff is sweet, not surprising considering the ingredients are banana, pineapple, lemon and sugar. Mmm!