so now wagon has a homepage and an RPM and all that sorta poop; perhaps this will help sway people form proprietary job distribution systems. who knows?

frances is on a train arriving this evening. joy!

had dinner and drinks with ankh the other night, which was nice. I haven't seen him in a while. I tried to convince him to work on berlin to no avail. stefan related over pool the fact that gnome is now some sort of OMG-backed foundation.. I guess congratulations are in order. perhaps someday we'll find a way to glue it to berlin and make an unholy advanced-imaging monster. till then I'm gonna, uh, hit the profiler some more and see about that mutexing thing.

I wonder sometimes, looking at all these turbo awesome RDBMS-based version control systems proprietary vendors sell, whether one of us ought to sit down with postgresql, a little embedded SQL and a big cup of coffee and try our hand at it. total speculation here, but I think maybe the assumption that we need to use tar, diff and patch as the basis for version control is perhaps hindering us.

since I have nothing else useful to share aside from the details of me scrubbing my apartment floor, I will instead provide amusing links: wli graced comp.lang.functional with a lovely link to a type inference paper and thomas lindgren followed up with an even more delightful link to spj's Implementing Functional Languages -- A Tutorial paper. mmm. to round matters off, jbash sent me a link to why computers need ethics following our lengthy chat on the topic 2 weeks ago, and shaver pointed us to a stunningly odd site featuring britney spears and the marvels of semiconductor physics.