Well things are in transition here at the moment, I'm changing roles in my current job - switching from being a developer to being a SysAdmin/Toolsmith.

 I'm already well known for wanting to automate things, be it with Perl, or Emacs, or whatever - so I'm looking forward to doing that kind of thing.

 The SysAdmin stuff could be cool too ;) I'm just trying to decide whether its gonna be a huge mistake, or really cool - I suppose I'll have to wait and see.

 Work on the Linux MPIO drivers is progressing slowly, I've discovered that Wine is capable of running the transfer software - so I'm using that to log on the port input(s), and output(s)...

 I huge thank-you goes out to the Wine developers; last time I used Wine it was very poor nowadays I'm running it without windows installed, and its stunning how many apps work with the Wine "dll"s.