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Of course a downside of being in a fast growing company is that your job description changes fairly rapidly.

Boss: "This is high priority"

Me: "Gotcha I won't sleep until that's done!"

Boss: "Change of plans. This company is Huge and they want us. Do that!"

Them's the breaks I guess.

On another note I'm in love with nautilus. I'm running the hourly builds and I've found most of the speed problems have gone and the program is nicely responsive. I'm just longing for some of the features we've seen in preview screen shots.

On the LyX Front I'm having a bit of trouble following some of the more complicated Controllers and that's slowed my GUI development down a bit. I'm just looking forward to getting some serious coding done on Easter weekend. Specifically FormCharacter and FormInclude.

I've finally had my first code commited to the LyX repositry, see! . I've started working on some of the slightly more difficult dialogs

On a work front, Compudigm is going well and I'm having a ball. My current workload seems to leave me in NZ for the forseeable future but I look forward to some trips away in the future. I just hope I get sent somewhere fascinating. Things couldn't really be going any better! :).

Well, that's not entirely true, I spend most of my time fighting with various windows based database systems but that irritation is only minor compared to the benefits of working here. I definitely advise all of you to work for fast growing successful companies!

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