It's been quite some time since I did an update on this journal... might as well continue it.

Been a very, very busy year for me - as I've been travelling quite a lot, coding quite a lot (Zope,Plone and Archetypes for a legacy ERP project that I'm now rewriting, then Ruby on Rails for the new web apps, XUL and Pythonfor some funky stuff we're doing...) and working a lot more than usual. I guess my friend was right that this would be my busiest year.

Got myself an IBM Thinkpad T42p (2373-N37) after my old Dell Latitude C640 got its system board fried a few weeks ago. That laptop lasted for 2 years and has given me good profits. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS just got the thing running out of the box.

I'm now moving away from using Plone as my web development platform and shifting to Ruby on Rails. It's not due to the hype - rather - I find mixing RDBMS and Plone to be a daunting task (even with Archetype's SQLStorage layer).

LaTeX has been quite a lifesaver for me during document preparation... got nicely-formatted manuals in less time than it would take to have them done via word-processors. I've tried DocBook a long time ago but LaTeX is much easier for me.

Despite having a very busy lifestyle, my girlfriend Sarah has been quite very supportive of me.