Back to work on Monday, but this holiday I've managed to avoid getting into doing real work by playing with the home automation system. I've now finished the conversion of all the components to Jabber bots, written a control client, and got all the one-wire Dallas switches and sensors up and running. some screenshots are available

A hope Google extends the shopping idea to the UK; I've wasted too many days this holiday looking for stuff for the house - just trying to find the right table for our kitchen took two days - I just want to search for a round glass 90-110cm table plus four chairs for under 400 pounds and click on 'buy me'.