Something else that happened in the dark ages of the diary: I went to scheme-uk again. This should not be taken as indicative of any paradigm shift towards the Dark Side; however, a chance to hear Shriram Krishnamurthi speak is not to be sniffed at.
So what did he speak about? Shriram actually gave two talks: the second was probably more audience-pleasing (in that, well, it involved scheme: specifically DrScheme and FrTime), on the beginnings of functional GUI programming. Neat, but time will tell whether it's a practical advance on the current callback-based paradigm.
The first talk was, serendipitously, closely related to work I've been doing: Shriram presented results of examining the coverage of deltas (individual CVS checkins, say) by test suites, coming up with the mildly surprising result that the coverage is strongly bimodal: most changes affect either very few tests (one or two) or the whole suite.
This is similar in method and scope to work that I'll be presenting in Oslo at the Lisp/Scheme Workshop (side note: only €25 for attendance) on classifying benchmarks by examining the changes in timings caused by source deltas. Shriram's talk also leads naturally into repeating his analysis using pfdietz's test suite, with the added advantage that it's cross-implementation, and so not contaminated by a biassed worldview. On the other hand, the ANSI CL test suite isn't finished yet; this might cause a little difficulty in comparing results.
Still. Interesting stuff.